Word: yoshihito
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sporting heir-apparent to the throne, arrived in Tokyo last week. Popular, he was greeted by 10,000 marshalled school children. Respectful, he hurried to his mother, the Empress Dowager and his elder brother, the Emperor. Pious, he did worship at the casket of his father, the late Tenno Yoshihito...
With the death of His Imperial Majesty Yoshihito Tenno (TIME, Jan. 3) there began last week the usual sacrifices of loyal subjects in his honor. Hundreds of young girls cut off their hair and burned it ceremoniously in the temples. Stalwart youths pierced veins and painted in blood devout ideographic prayers for the Tenno.* Finally Baron Mansasuke Ikeda, lifelong companion of the Tenno, set up a portrait of the "Heavenly King" in his house near Tokyo, cried, "I followed you in life, I follow you in death," and shot himself...
Heavenly King.** Immediately after Yoshihito Tenno's death his eldest son Hirohito (since 1921 Prince Regent on account of his father's invalidism) assumed imperial rank in a room adjoining the death chamber. He will not be crowned until 1928, since the period of mourning in the Imperial Household will be protracted one year after the Tenno's death. None the less Hirohito Tenno received last week the Privy Seal and various imitations of the sacred symbols of his office?the sword, the mirror and the beads?the originals of these treasures reposing in various shrines throughout Japan...
Throughout the week Prince Chichibu, second son of Yoshihito Tenno, was vainly racing to his father's bedside from his studies at Oxford (TIME, Sept. 27). Returning to Japan across the U. S., he landed at Manhattan from the Majestic last week...
Died. His Imperial Majesty, Yoshihito Haru-no-miya, 47, 123rd Emperor of Japan; in Hayama, Japan; of pneumonia...