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
Meanwhile the party of the mikado was not idle.
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
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 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
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
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
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 Charles Morris
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