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 mikado is himself half a god in Japanese eyes, and is expected to be content with the simple and austere surroundings of the images of the gods.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
By the 1st of July, 1869, hostilities were at an end, and the mikado was the sole lord 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
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
For more than two centuries the Ashikaga lorded it over Japan, as the Hojo had done before them, and the mikados were tools in their strong hands.
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
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
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