Word: setsuko
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greek-Irish-American Lafcadio Hearn went to Japan to promote trans-Pacific travel for the Canadian Pacific Railroad. He was fascinated by the country and the life, took a Japanese wife, Setsuko Koizumi, daughter of a Samurai. So that he could more easily become a Japanese citizen, he was adopted by Setsuko's family, changed his name to Yakumo (Eight Clouds) Koizumi and later turned Buddhist. He got a job as Professor of English Literature in Tokyo's Imperial University. At that time Western popular knowledge of Japan was still very Gilbert & Sullivan. Lafcadio Hearn took the real...
...Crown Prince Chichibu is called upon to make derives from the fact that his brother, Emperor Hirohito, has no manchild. Until the Sublime Emperor has a son (he has had four daughters) Japanese etiquet demands that Crown Prince Chichibu have no child whatsoever. Four years ago he married merry Setsuko Matsudaira who was schooled in Washington. D. C. while her father was Ambassador...
...Died. Setsuko Koizumi, 69, relict of Yakumo Koizumi (Lafcadio Hearn); of arteriosclerosis; in Tokyo. In 1891 Lafcadio Hearn went to Japan to write articles for Harper's Magazine. Quarrelsome, he broke his contract because the illustrator was to get more money than he, was stranded until friends got him a job teaching school in Matsue. There he married Setsuko Koizumi, was adopted into her family, became a Japanese citizen and a professor in the Imperial University. He died in 1904, leaving three sons and a daughter. Kazuo, 39, lives on inherited money, collects curios. Iwao, 35, tall, handsome,soldierly...
...Their Majesties' fourth child was of national importance because the previous three have been girls (one has died). It was also of personal importance to two charming young people, Crown Prince Chichibu, the Emperor's eldest brother, and Crown Princess Setsuko. Although married for more than two years, they have been obliged by rigid etiquet to have no children, lest they should have a son discourteously ahead of the Emperor. Thus with the greatest national and most exquisitely personal regret it was learned that the babe born last week is another girl. She was at once presented with...
...Chichibu, eldest brother of the Emperor, but no allusion to this fact is ever made by the intensely loyal Japanese press. It is even widely held that the birth of a son to Prince Chichibu would be an intolerable affront to the Son of Heaven. Thus far Crown Princess Setsuko (daughter of onetime Japanese Ambassador to the U. S. Tsuneo Matsudaira * has remained childless, an object of Japanese sympathy and esteem. Without venturing a direct comment, the genealogical experts of the Imperial Household Ministry discreetly apprised the press last week that there is no precedent requiring brothers of the Emperor...