Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days began one dawn, last week, in Tokyo-dawn being the most auspicious hour for the egress of the Son of Heaven...
...lasting from eight to eleven in the morning, informed the Imperial Ancestors that their descendant had now assumed his full Imperial Station. The second ceremony - of chief interest to Occidentals on account of the chair - culminated at 3 p. m. and was, in essence, simply a proclamation by the Son of Heaven to his People that he is now Tenno. This was the "Coronation" proper...
Loud cries warned that the Son of Heaven was entering the Shishinden from the North. To the South, all 'round the courtyard, spectators stiffened to immobility. Slowly the slender, spectacled Tenno paced up the steps of the Takamikura and sat down in his black lacquer chair. Pompously the Lord Chamberlain placed upon stands adjoining the Throne, the sacred Sword and Jewel, emblems and relics of the Sun Goddess, which, together with the Divine Mirror, attest the utter sanctity of the enthronement. Then a plain wooden baton was presented to the Tenno - "The Scepter...
Entered and sat the Empress.* The "People of Japan," personified by the solitary figure of Prime Minister Baron Giichi Tanaka, paced to the middle of the court yard, bowed low to the Son of Heaven, and awaited the Divine Word...
...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...