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
The first personage after Jimmu upon whom we need dwell was a wise and worthy mikado named Sujin, who spent his days in civilizing his people, probably no easy task.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
After conquering all his enemies he visited Kioto, where he astonished the court of the mikado by the splendor of his retinue and the magnificence of his military shows, athletic games, and ceremonial banquets.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
For centuries afterwards Corea served as the channel through which the arts and thoughts of Asia reached the empire of the mikados.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
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 Charles Morris
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
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
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
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