Word: shogunate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...verse form so old that its origin vanishes in the mists of antiquity, the haiku is distinctly Japanese, like the no drama, where crossed planks do for a shogun's litter. No occasion passes, among haiku composers, without hundreds of commemorative haiku, frequently written on the spot. A thief, about to be hanged for his crime, couched his last words in the haiku form: "As for the end -/ that I'll hear in the next world./ cuckoo, my friend." For the lower-brows there are even earthy haiku, called senryu in honor of their creator, who died more...
When, after Commodore Matthew Perry opened Japan to the world, the Shogun of Japan sent a special emissary to Washington in 1860 to observe the U.S. Congress at work, the appalled official duly reported back: "It's like the Nihonbashi fish market!'' Japan's own Diet, patterned in part after the U.S. Congress, was even more a fish market last week. What should have been a mere formality-the re-election of pro-Western Nobusuke Kishi, 61, who had resigned as Premier in accordance with the constitution after the last general elections (TIME, June 2)-turned...
...flame, Cinemactor Michael Wilding, the cops themselves were arguing about the evidence. Why had Marie's captors foolishly let her make three phone calls? How come a doctor found "no evidence of any type of criminal attack"? Sighed Marie's ex-husband No. 3 and 4, Shoe Shogun Harry Karl: "I'm glad she's all right, but this whole thing is amazing. I'm a normal businessman and I wanted a good wife and children. She's just beyond...