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
This imperial Amazon was the wife of the mikado Chinai, who in 193 A.D. set out at the head of his army for Kiushiu, a rebellion having broken out at Kumaso, in that island.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
Under orders from the mikado, the shogun appointed the prince of Echizen premier of the empire.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
He lived to be one hundred and eleven years old, and was next to the last of the long lived mikados of Everlasting Great Japan.
From Japanese Fairy World Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan by Ozawa
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
In the Japanese year 1 appeared a conqueror, Jimmu Tennō by name, the first of the mikados or emperors.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
The same was the case with the mikados, who were also creatures of the Hojo clan.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
Others were deposed, and neither mikados nor shoguns were permitted to reign except as puppets in the hands of the powerful regents of the realm.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
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