Word: tenno
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...Goddess. A Shinto archpriest, bearded and stately, heralded the Tenno's death to his ancestors at Tokyo. Locked within the Imperial Shrine, the archpriest communed with the 122 dead Emperors. When he emerged his face was ashen but beatified. Thousands who had gathered to pray believed that the archpriest might even have talked with the Sun Goddess from whom the Emperors are traditionally descended...
Thousands of Japanese, increasingly alarmed by the Emperor's recently aggravated ill health, began last week to "purify" themselves, on the theory that just as the virtue of the Tenno (emperor) is supposed to effect the well-being of his subjects, so an increase in their purity should benefit the Emperor...
...From the Tenno* to whom he is what von Tirpitz was to Wilhelm II, Admiral Togo accepted, perforce, The Grand Order of the Chrysanthemum, The First Order of the Golden Kite, and his creation in 1907 as a count. At the time of his capture of Port Arthur the State declared the victory due to "the Virtue of the Tenno." The Tenno ascribed it to the intercession of his ancestors. Admiral Togo, asked which of these theories he favored, replied gravely and laconically: "Both...
...everyone knows, the temporal power of the Tenno (King of Heaven: Emperor) was eclipsed by that of the Shoguns or Tycoons ("High Princes") from the Seventh Century until the Nineteenth. It was, in fact, the great Emperor Meiji, father of the present sovereign, who overthrew the last Shogun of Japan, Keiki, in 1868, and restored the imperial dynasty...
...Japanese ordinarily refer to the Emperor as Tenno or Tenshi and speak of him as Kotei (a Chinese title meaning "Emperor) in discussing his relation to non-Japanese affairs. Only foreigners employ in conversation the poetic title Mikado...