Word: nagako
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Empress Nagako gave patriotic Japanese the jitters by producing four daughters before giving birth in 1933 to a son and heir to the world's oldest unbroken dynasty. Cute, deadpan Crown Prince Akihito ("The prince of the August Succession and Enlightened Benevolence") is now five years old, has his own palace, likes to climb trees and ride on the palace lawn in his toy automobile and bicycle. Twenty young sons of peers come to play with him in shifts on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Last week four more noble playmates with special talents were chosen to match Akihito...
Other contributors were Her Imperial Majesty Empress Nagako and Her Imperial Majesty Sadako, the Empress Dowager. Last year the Emperor created a sensation by mentioning "peace" in his poem. This year only the Empress Dowager used the word...
Inasmuch as Japan's Imperial succession passes only to males, prolific Empress Nagako had the Japanese jittery for years as, four times in a row, she gave birth to girls. Five years ago she relieved their fears, gave birth to Crown Prince Akihito and two years later produced another boy-child...
...summer holiday of Japanese Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako was cut short last week by fierce fighting in Soviet Siberia and in North China. Their Majesties hurried from the seaside back to a highly excited Tokyo in which Premier Prince Konoye repeatedly held midnight cabinet councils with members of the General Staff. Japanese businessmen, as usual, could not find out whether Japanese soldiers had been fighting at the command of their Government or because their local Japanese commanders had decided that the local opportunities for getting in a few blows were too good to miss last week...
...priests, 20,000 communicants crowded the ceremony. At its conclusion the bride, wearing eleven kimonos, gave away 1,500,000 fans; the groom gave away 1,500,000 yen ($420,000). Wedding gifts: a castle from Nishi-Hongwanji followers, five kinds of fresh fish (harbingers of happiness) from Empress Nagako...