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
As a monk he exercised more power than he had done as a mikado, retaining the control of affairs during the reigns of his son and his two grandsons.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
Nitta Yoshisada, a captain of the Hojo forces, had been sent to besiege Kusunoki, a vassal of the mikado, who held a stronghold for his imperial lord.
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
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
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 lived to be one hundred and eleven years old, and was next to the last of the long lived mikados of Everlasting Great Japan.
From Japanese Fairy World Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan by Ozawa
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