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
If it was by order of the mikado half only of a traitor’s property was forfeited to the state.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various
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
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
Proceeding upon this basis, there is not much to be said of the reigns of the mikados who ruled before the Christian era, beyond what has been already stated.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 by John Rudd
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 Charles Morris
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
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
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