Word: mikado
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young Kawamura enlisted in the army of the Great Mikado, Meiji, father of the present sovereign, who proceeded to overthrow the Shogunate (1868) and restored to the present reigning house the supreme power, which it has theoretically held for 122 generations?since the dawn of Japanese history...
Prince Yasuhito Chichibu-no-miya, second son of the Mikado, lay abed at Miirren, Switzerland. Now and then he twitched about and eased the pain-pricks darting through his left instep, recently strained by a sprawl upon the ice (TIME, Feb. 22). Several times he wakened in the night and wondered why he seemed to be growing pain-prickly all over...
...Hayashi, onetime Japanese Ambassador to Britain, watched anxiously as the Imperial personage to whom he acts as tutor, cut figure-eights with joyful abandon. Meanwhile fashionable onlookers whispered the skater's identity. They whispered that he was Prince Yasuhito Chichibu-no-miya of Japan, the second son of the Mikado...
...times persona grata with royalty. Edward VII created him a knight of the Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George. The Mikado elevated him to the rank of Baron and then Viscount...
There is significance in Russia's recent overtures to the Mikado's government. It is an old saying, "Scratch a Russian and you'll find a Tartar." And why is it not natural that Japan should seek her place among nations through "the most eastern of Europeans and the most western of Asiatics...