Word: mikasa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discovered the Bible in a secondhand bookshop. Kotsuji entered a Christian mission school, studied Hebrew, became a Presbyterian; he later studied philology at the University of California, earned a doctorate at Kyoto University. Acknowledged as Japan's top Hebraist. Kotsuji wrote a Hebrew grammar, tutored scholarly Prince Mikasa, youngest brother of Nippon's Emperor Hirohito...
...Prince Takamatsu took along some simple requests from the folks back home. On the wanted list: for Emperor Hirohito, an old pro at marine biology, scientific data on Hydrozoa and the latest French research on oysters; for Crown Prince Akihito, three kinds of tropical fish; for Prince Mikasa, the Emperor's youngest brother and a history prof at Tokyo Women's Christian College, a museum catalogue on archaeology...
...crowded electric tram. But if he happened to be late, he would occasionally pull up in an imperial limousine with the Emperor's chrysanthemum crest on the door. Furthermore, there was the problem of knowing how to address him. The new professor was none other than Prince Takahito Mikasa, 39, brother of the Emperor, and the only prince of the royal blood ever to teach in a classroom...
Last week, as vacation time approached, Prince Mikasa decided to turn his last class into a tea party. "Have fun," he advised his students. "That's what vacations are for." But did the Denka intend to make a career of being a Sensei? Says Mikasa: "At first, I was so nervous and I spoke so fast that I had a tendency to stutter and mumble. But now I think I should make a pretty good professor...
Then, while robed priests shook incense and chanted the Buddhist sutras, they bowed before a golden reliquary containing a fragment of Buddha's bones. In a welcoming speech, Prince Mikasa, Emperor Hirohito's youngest brother, told them: "I believe a new mission has been added to Buddhist circles all over the world-a mission to cope with the present atomic...