Word: sanjo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prince Kotohito Kanin, who had been designated "Honorable Girdle Parent" (equivalent of godfather), presented the girdle, a silk belt twelve feet long. Surrounded by the Empress and her court ladies, elaborately dressed in ancient, figured costumes, the Emperor saw Grand Master of Rituals of the Imperial Household Prince Kimitern Sanjo place the belt before the Imperial shrine and inform the Imperial ancestors of the coming event. Then, with the assistance of her ladies, it was wrapped around the plump little Empress. The child, seventh conceived by the Empress, is expected in mid-February...
Also ready were the Grand Chamberlain, Admiral Suzuki; the Chief Ritualist, Prince Sanjo and the Minister of the Imperial Household, Viscount Yuasa...
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