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

Yoritomo was now supreme lord of Japan, the mikado, for whom he acted, being a mere tool in his hands.

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

Under orders from the mikado, the shogun appointed the prince of Echizen premier of the empire.

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

For more than two centuries the Ashikaga lorded it over Japan, as the Hojo had done before them, and the mikados were tools in their strong hands.

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

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

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

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

The same was the case with the mikados, who were also creatures of the Hojo clan.

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