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Word: nagako (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tokyo, Prince Regent Hirohito, who has ruled in his father's stead since 1921, presided over the chrysanthemum fete with his wife, the Crown Princess Nagako. He and his three brothers are strapping sportsmen, know not infirmities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Sturdy Empress | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

...beach at Kamakura, famed site of the imperial villa of the Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan. Out rushed the imperial household, agog at this omen of good luck. When the turtle, having laid exactly 70 eggs, retired into the sea, it was bruited throughout Japan that the Crown Princess Nagako would be certain to give birth to a male heir. Then a pair of sacred cranes nested in a great pine tree almost at the imperial threshold, and this omen was thought to be so certain of fulfillment that the Japanese newspapers commenced to refer to the expected child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Auspicious Birth | 12/14/1925 | See Source »

...came into the world the 124th descendant in direct line of the Emperor Jimmu Tenno (660 B. C.), founder of the oldest reigning dynasty*the world. Unfortunately the infant thus auspiciously born proved to be a girl Some 70 million disappointed Japanese were comforted by an announcement: "The Princess Nagako continues in robust health, and will personally nurse the granddaughter of the Emperor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Auspicious Birth | 12/14/1925 | See Source »

Hirohito, Prince Regent of Japan, celebrated his marriage to the Princess Nagako (TIME, Feb. 4) by starting a mustache. Court circles politely refer to it as the Regent's mustache, but so far it consists of only a few silky hairs. Their intense blackness makes them almost visible and the imperial barber is eager for the moment when there will be sufficient foundation for an application...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Notes, Apr. 7, 1924 | 4/7/1924 | See Source »

Prince Regent Hirohito and Crown Princess Nagako (TiME, Feb. 4) left Tokyo for a week's honeymoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Honeymoon | 3/3/1924 | See Source »

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