Word: mikami
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outside this fence stood grizzled Yuko Hamaguchi, Prime Minister of Japan, his Cabinet and members of the official party. Inside the fence in the temple stood Prince Kuni, Imperial Messenger, and the High Priest with his assistants. The High Priest read an address to the spirit of Amaterasu O-Mikami, informing her that her new home was ready. Then the procession formed to march the 350 yards from the old temple to the new. First came more torch bearers in archaic costumes, then warriors with bows, spears, shields, others with gifts of jewels and robes for the Sun Goddess. Then...
Since His Majesty is the 124th lineal descendant of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu-0-Mikami, such appeals are regarded as a deadly sacrilege and sin. Nonetheless last week, when Emperor Hirohito rode out to open Parliament, a burly farmer from Saitama Province burst through the cordon of Imperial police and groveled sinfully before the Son of Heaven...
...floods!" cried the farmer. "Save us from the waters, Divine One! The floods are rising in Saitama. Save our farms! Speak only a word to Amaterasu-0-Mikami, that She may dry up the floods...
...looked down compassionately through spectacles, from his great Louis XIV State Coach. Above the gorgeous vehicle a golden phoenix perched with wings spread-symbol of divine and inextinguishable Radiance. If the little slant-eyed man in spectacles really believes that he can talk with his Divine Ancestress Amaterasu-0-Mikami-as he is supposed to do several times a year-the farmer's plea must have stirred in His Majesty strange emotions...
...once caused it to project upwards from the ground a radiance so transcendant that impious beholders were blinded and driven mad. Since then prudent Japanese have taken no liberties with the Divine Mirror, originally inherited by the first Tenno Jimmu from his great-great-grandmother, Sun Goddess Omaterosu O-Mikami, who established him as the Emperor of Japan, over which his descendants have reigned ever since (2,588 years...