mikado

“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 the rule of Yoritomo Japan had two capitals and two governments, the mikado ruling at Kioto, the shogun at Kamakura, the magnificent city which Yoritomo had founded.

From Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris

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 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

He had been the counsellor of five mikados.

From Japanese Fairy World Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan by Ozawa

He stands on the list as the first of the mikados, and the reigning emperor claims unbroken descent from him.

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