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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Out Devils, In Luck! | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Emperor Enthroned | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

They knew that the Sun Goddess, Amaterasu-O-Mikami, was arriving with all the 123 dead Emperors of Japan, her lineal descendants, to witness and to bless the coronation of the present Emperor, the Sublime Tenno Hirohito...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Unseen, Unheard, Unsmelt | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

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