Word: nagako
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...full force of the storm broke against the palace walls, lights suddenly appeared. A uniformed aid scurried from a side door across a sanded driveway to a temporary booth where reporters waited. Excited watchers whispered to each other that it had come. Another child was born to the Empress Nagako. Would it be a boy? Would there finally be a direct heir to the throne of Japan? On the roof of the Tokyo fire house the siren hooted mournfully, rose to a high electric scream. Tokyo waited breathless. Then came another hoot, longer, more mournful. Sadly Tokyo realized that...
...Empress Nagako's second daughter, the infant Princess Sachiko, died in March 1928, aged six months (TIME, March...
Born. To their Imperial Majesties Empress Nagako and Emperor Hirohito of Japan; a third daughter; at Tokyo...
...arrival of the Duke of Gloucester in Tokyo created a hostess problem almost as interesting as Washington's strange affair of Mrs. Gann. Positively the Empress Nagako could not serve. She is with child. Therefore the Sublime Emperor, Hirohito Tenno, descendant of the Sun Goddess, promoted to the rank of hostess for a day the gracious Princess Setsu, wife of the Emperor's next older brother and heir, Prince Chichibu. Not so long ago Miss Setsu Matsudaira was a pupil at the Friends (Quaker) School in Washington, D. C.. where her father was until recently Japanese Ambassador. Last week...
Queen Marie is 30, Empress Nagako...