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

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 Charles Morris

In the end they decided who should be mikado, ruled the country like monarchs, and became in effect the proprietors of the throne.

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

Though really a vassal of the emperor, he wielded the power of the emperor himself, and from 1192 until 1868 the mikados were insignificant puppets and the shoguns the real lords of the land.

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

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 John Rudd

With these I endow the imperial prince of the Heavenly line of the mikados of the Divine country.

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

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