Word: kioto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden: "I was attended by physicians in Tokyo for a bad cold last week. Recovered, I left for Kioto* with my wife, Princess Louise. Later we will tour the Inland Sea on a Japanese warship and visit Korea...
Nagako had many garments made in Kioto: a kimono of scarlet and purple silk carrying the embroidered chrysanthemum crest; a skirt of intricate design; an outer dress of purple silk with designs of pine trees and tortoises, symbols of long life. She carried a fan of gilded wood on which were painted varicolored flowers. (Her trousseau, invaluable, contained a kimono of twelve thicknesses...
...Most of the guests of the Imperial Hotel fled into the corridors at the first tremor, others rushed out into the streets with their clothes and dressed there. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt, present in the Imperial, "showed great calmness." Kermit Roosevelt, in Kioto, missed the thrilling experience...