Word: naruhito
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Japan's commoners caught their first glimpse of their new prince, Naruhito Hironomiya, and his commoner mother, Crown Princess Michiko. All bundled against the cold, the two-week-old princeling was whisked from the Imperial Household Hospital to home and daddy, Crown Prince Akihito...
...wooden doll to symbolize the coming of a "heavenly child," a seven-inch "sword of protection" wrapped in red brocade. At the Naming Ceremony, a chamberlain presented the Emperor with a specially woven sheet of paper containing the three possible names submitted by the grand chamberlain (final choice: Naruhito Hironomiya). It was almost as if nothing had changed since Akihito himself was born 27 years...