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

To the people, the mikado became like a deity, his name sacred and inviolable, his power in the hands of the boldest of his subjects.

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

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

For centuries afterwards Corea served as the channel through which the arts and thoughts of Asia reached the empire of the mikados.

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

He had been the counsellor of five mikados.

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

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

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