Word: tokugawa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Phoenix Hall of the Imperial Palace the Imperial Poem Reading was conducted with the ceremony and pageantry of an English Coronation. The great Princes Tokugawa and Yamagata- names ringing in Japanese ears like Gladstone and Wellington-were in attendance with Princes of the Blood and members of the Imperial Family. The appropriate choral performers and their leader, all schooled to emit the 31 syllables of the incredibly stylized tanka in exactly so many breaths, were at hand...
Prince lyesatu Tokugawa, descendant of the first Japanese shogun, and delegate to the Washington arms conference, called on President Conant on Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock, and was later entertained at a tea given in his honor by Reger B. Merriman '96, Master of Eliot House, in the Masters Lodgings. Prince Tokugawa was accompanied by his son, lyemasa Tokugawa, Japanese minister to Canada, and by his granddaughter. Toyo Tokugawa. The Prince has already spent 25 years in the service of Japan, including four years at Ottawa...
Visiting nobility: Prince Charles of Sweden, Count & Countess Karolyi, Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, Count Folke Bernadotte, Prince Tokugawa of Japan...
...other, Roy Wilson Howard, chairman of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, editor of the New York World-Telegram and onetime president of the Scripps-founded United Press. Arriving in Tokyo together, AP's Cooper and UP's Howard were wined and dined by all bigwigs from Prince Tokugawa down. After that Mr. Cooper visited Osaka. Shanghai, Hongkong. Mr. Howard flew in a military plane to Manchuria, interviewed Japanese and Chinese generals...
...Ambassador Forbes is a worthy compeer of George Washington," declared Prince Tokugawa, President of the House of Peers...