mikado
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“I’ve been coming here since I was a kid,” said Laura Hureski, stretching out on a bench on the museum lawn in her flowing ivory mikado wedding gown one afternoon in August.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2022
The groom’s eyes began welling with tears when the bride, stunning in an strapless, ivory-colored silk mikado Monique Lhuillier dress, began making her way down the aisle to Steve Winwood’s “Higher Love.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2018
The Japanese emperor, the mikado, governed by divine right of kings until 1945.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2016
Pamphlets were issued, some claiming that the clans owed allegiance to the shogun, others that the mikado was the true and only emperor.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles
The mikado gradually became lost to view behind a screen of officialism, which hid the throne.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles
All that we need now say in the way of reciting the legends of the gods has relation to the descent of the mikados of Japan from the deities.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 by Rudd, John
If this thing from time to time may cause the foreigner to retire, and partly tranquillize the manes of departed mikados and tycoons, I shall take to myself the highest praise.
From Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
All the great offices of the empire in time fell into the hands of the Fujiwaras: they married their daughters to the mikados, surrounded them with their adherents, and governed the empire in their name.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles
With these I endow the imperial prince of the Heavenly line of the mikados of the Divine country.
From Japanese Fairy World Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan by Ozawa
This Japanese hero of romance, born 71 A.D., was the son of Keiko, the twelfth in line of the mikados.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles
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