Word: tokugawa
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Kurusu: But without anything-they want me to keep carrying on the matrimonial question? In the meantime we're faced with having a child born. On top of that, Tokugawa [code for the Jap Army] is champing at the bit, isn't he? . . . That's why I doubt if anything can be done...
...Tokugawa Era, which began in 1600, Japan withdrew into its shell like a frightened hermit crab. Feudalism was established; foreigners were driven from the country or tossed from mountaintops; Japanese were forbidden to leave Japan. This period, in many ways Japan's greatest and in many ways the shape of things-to-come in 20th-century Europe, ended in 1853 with the arrival of Commodore Perry. The Japanese people, who are by nature the world's cleverest imitators, entered into a new era of imitation of all things foreign...
Died. Prince lyesato Tokugawa, 76, longtime (1903-33) president of the Japanese House of Peers, English-educated friend of the U. S.; of pneumonia; in Tokyo. Had Emperor Mutsuhito not emerged from seclusion, restored author ity to the throne, Tokugawa would have been Shogun (military ruler) of Japan...
...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...