Word: nagako
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...muse hung airy as a blimp over Tokyo's Imperial Palace, where a top event of Japan's literary season, the annual poetry party, went into its lyrical finale. Seated before a huge golden screen, Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako harkened approvingly to verse by 15 finalists chosen from a record 17,238 entrants trying their hand at the formal 31-syllable waka. Then they listened solemnly while their own poems were read. The imperial family does not compete in the contest itself, this year featuring the subject of "Clouds." Hirohito's effort, read five times...
...Nagako's waka, read thrice, also lost something in translation...
Five members of Japan's royal family obligingly strolled out on the Imperial Palace grounds in Tokyo, beamed down on Anastasia, a pet dog of Prince Alcihito (TIME, Dec. 30). With Akihito were his pretty sister Princess Suga, 18, Empress Nagako, Poetaster Emperor Hirohito (whose New Year verse on the clouds will be published next week) and 22-year-old Prince Yoshi...
Sunburned after a month spent collecting and classifying plants in the 3,000 acres surrounding his Nasu Imperial Villa in Tochigi, Japan's Emperor Hirohlto took time out from scholarly puttering to be photographed informally (no tie) with his occasional companion on the botanical walks, Empress Nagako...
Emperor Hirohito, in cutaway and striped trousers, and Empress Nagako, in a pastel kimono and silver fox furs, greeted some 170,000 well-wishers in Tokyo from the balcony of a pavilion on their palace preserve. Customarily presenting a poem to his subjects on New Year's Day, Hirohito this year delighted everyone by producing two. Both, as always, suffered from translation into English. The first, inspired by Japan's annual tree-planting rites last spring, was titled Reforestation...