Word: tokugawas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Prince Takamatsu, younger brother of Emperor Hirohito of Japan; and Kikuko Tokugawa, granddaughter of the last of the Shoguns (feudal lords); at Tokyo...
...Touring Europe to enlist help. Organizer Sard broke the news last week in Vienna. He announced as a prominent cooperator Count di San Martino. president of the Augusteo Orchestra and the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, who will head the European delegations. Another noble cooperator, the Marquis Tokugawa of Japan, will chairman a Far Eastern Committee. Music Patrons Otto Hermann Kahn and George Eastman will serve on the U. S. board. In conjunction with the festival a technical exposition will be held for manufacturers of instruments, records, talking films...
Tycoon (Japanese: Dai?Great; Kun?Noble One, or Prince) used by the latter Shoguns of the Tokugawa Line descended from leasu (Seventeenth Century) and up to the abdication of Tokugawa Yoshinobu...
Because Prince Tokugawa's philanthropy is greater even than his great wealth the grounds and exteriors of his numerous palaces are habitually in disrepair, but within all is sumptuous, as befits the great patron of the arts who founded Japan's first symphony orchestra...
...Prince was born at Tokyo, in 1863, and was adopted five years later as the son and heir of his kinsman Prince Yoshinobu Tokugawa, who had just relinquished the Shogunate. Soon afterward the newly-made-potent Emperor Mutsuhito appointed 5-year-old heir Tokugawa to be Governor of Shidzuoka Province, as a mark of the esteem in which the House of Tokugawa was, and still is, held by the Imperial House of Japan...