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

In their strong hands the mikado sank into a puppet, to move as they pulled the strings.

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

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 Morris, Charles

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 Rudd, John

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 Morris, Charles

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 Morris, Charles

For a period of some twelve hundred years nearly all that we know of the mikados is that they "lived long and died happy."

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

In the Japanese year 1 appeared a conqueror, Jimmu Tennō by name, the first of the mikados or emperors.

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