Word: nagako
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upon a litter lay Empress Nagako. Erect and stern, Emperor Hirohito surveyed the scene before him. To one side court bards chanted a portion of the classics in a low tone. The great of the Empire surrounded the Imperial group. In it was Premier Güchi Tanaka, clad immaculately in Occidental formal attire. Hands placed together, he prayed, standing, eyes wide open, before a flag-adorned shrine...
...Empress Nagako of Japan was born a sister to her first child, Princess Shigeko Teru-No-Miya. Once again the Imperial Stork had failed to heed the gods of Shintoism and the great call of the great Lord Buddha for a son and heir to the august Imperial throne...
Born. To Emperor Hirohito & Empress Nagako of Japan, a daughter (7 1/3 Ibs.); in a wooden hall outside the Akaska Palace, where are born all children of the immediate royal family of Japan...
Solemn priests of the Shinto faith entered the private apartments of Her Majesty, the Empress Nagako, at Tokyo last week, and reverently wound about her waist an obi of purest white silk some twelve feet long. Previously this girdle had been purified and made sacred at the Imperial Shrine. Its presentation to the Empress was in the nature of a symbolic pr yer that she might give birth in a few short weeks to a manchild, her first...
Japanese were glad and publicly made merry when the official gazette announced last week that the three royal obstetricians have pronounced Her Imperial Majesty the Empress Nagako to be with child, and hazarded the prognostication that accouchement would take place either in August or September...