Word: teru
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...Princess Teru-No-Miya-Shigeko, aged one, weight 28 pounds, height two feet four inches, precocious daughter of Prince Regent Hirohito of Japan, crawled and once even toddled about her royal nursery last week, examining her first birthday presents. Each of the hundreds of presents was a fish. Each fish was alive, wrapped carefully in damp perfumed moss and encased in a handsome and expensive birthday basket...
Japanese priests later explained privately to Occidentals that to the Japanese the fish is an immemorial symbol of reproductiveness. By their gifts of fish the Japanese nobility thus conveyed to Princess Teru-No-Miya the most pious of good wishes and the most delicate of compliments...
Shortly before his death, the aged Field Marshal was present at the Imperial Shrine, in Tokyo, when a sleepy-eyed great-granddaughter of "The Restorer," Mikado Meiji, was presented to her Imperial grandfather. The tiny Princess Teru-No-Miya Shigeko, born only last December (TIME, Dec. 14), cooed at Field Marshal Viscount Kawamura. A question seemed lurking in his eyes. It is not known how great a destiny awaits Japan in the Princess' lifetime...