Word: yuki
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...second-class geisha in old Kyoto. But from the moment he first spied her picture outside the Ono-Tei teahouse, George D. Morgan (son of J. P. Sr.'s sister Sarah and a distant cousin, George Hale Morgan) thought more & more of fragile, fragrant O-Yuki and less & less of a frosty Miss Meta Mackay, who had broken her engagement to him back in the States...
Soon he was calling regularly at the teahouse. For long evenings he sat cross-legged and entranced while Yuki taught him the ritual of tea-drinking and a fascinating game in which two players vie for a paper hoop by trying to catch it on paper hooks held under the lower lip. In no time the young American was begging O-Yuki to marry...
...little O-Yuki was no Cio-Cio-San, to tear the heart off her sleeve for the first foreigner to come along. In love with a Japanese law student, who squandered her money and betrayed her constantly, O-Yuki told her friends that she would never marry the foreigner, "even if I should get a million...
Sometimes on his white stallion, Shira-yuki, or in his crimson Rolls-Royce, he passed in public parade across the moat around his castle. Almost always his subjects hailed him with traditional banzais and reverential bows. But in 1932 an unidentified assailant threw a bomb at the Emperor's carriage, slightly wounding two horses of the imperial stables. Hirohito sent eight pounds of carrots to console the animals. No doubt, he pondered the words of his Grandfather Meiji, who had once escaped an anarchist conspiracy...
...conversations between the Japan Economic Federation and the Foreign Office, the mission was organized last February, thoroughly feted in Tokyo, written up in a special supplement of the Osaka Mainichi and the Tokyo Nichi Nichi, blessed at length by the then Prime Minister Senjuro Hayashi, Finance Minister Toyotaro Yuki and Foreign Minister Naotake Sato and showered with confetti ribbons as it sailed from Yokohama on April 28. The party of ten Japanese industrialists had no intention of making any immediate trade agreements. Avowed their chairman, sunny President Chokyuro Kadono of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce: "The primary consideration . . . was that...