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

It was defended by the adherents of the shogun, now the supporters of the mikado.

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

A guest at dinner ventured to dissent from Hearn's opinion that the reverential manner in which people prostrated themselves before the mikado was in no way connected with religious principles.

From Lafcadio Hearn by Nina H. Kennard

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

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

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

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

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