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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...
...nameless, seven-day-old Crown Prince (TIME, Jan. 1). While he was washed, the voices of the savants reading from ancient books were louder than the bowstrings. Clean after his first bath, the babe was swathed in a kimono of heavy white silk, the gift of Dowager Empress Sadako, most revered female in Japan. Only then was he ready to be named...
...Genji, recently done into English, revealed a highly sophisticated civilization in loth Century Japan. Lady Murasaki's novel is fiction glossed with decadent romance, but her accuracy of atmosphere and circumstance is corroborated by this loth Century Japanese diary. Sei Shonagon was in the service of Empress Sadako at the elaborate court of Heian. Not the least of her qualifications for the post was her handwriting-the cult of calligraphy amounting almost to a religion at court. Love affairs often began by some chance view of a lady's writing. On scented rice-paper Shonagon traced her delicate...
...predecessor, the present Dowager Empress Sadako, was the first consort of a Japanese Emperor to have her own "throne." She did not, howevet, occupy it when her husband, Emperor Yoshihito, was enthroned in 1915 because she was enceinte. Yoshihito Tenno, although greatly beloved, developed an impediment of the mind which caused his son (the present Tenno) to be made Regent in 1921, for Yoshihito who died...
...Imperial physicians came in a body to the Empress Sadako, now the Dowager Empress. They besought her for authority to employ this forbidden remedy upon the sacred person of His Majesty. Enlightened, courageous, the Empress Sadako took upon herself the heavy responsibility of authorizing for the first time a procedure hitherto regarded by Japanese in the nature of a sacrilege. Happily, success crowned the undertaking...