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
During this critical interval the mikado had died, and a new youthful emperor had been raised to the throne.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles
Gradually the mikado became surrounded by a hedge of etiquette which removed him from the view of the outer world.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles
From the far-off days of Jimmu, the first emperor, until a century after Buddhism was introduced, the mikados were the actual rulers of their people.
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
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
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
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 Morris, Charles
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