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
Kojima afterwards died on the battle-field during the war for the restoration of the exiled mikado.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles
Pamphlets were issued, some claiming that the clans owed allegiance to the shogun, others that the mikado was the true and only emperor.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles
All the great offices of the empire in time fell into the hands of the Fujiwaras: they married their daughters to the mikados, surrounded them with their adherents, and governed the empire in their name.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles
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
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 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
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
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