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
The first personage after Jimmu upon whom we need dwell was a wise and worthy mikado named Sujin, who spent his days in civilizing his people, probably no easy task.
From Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles
If this thing from time to time may cause the foreigner to retire, and partly tranquillize the manes of departed mikados and tycoons, I shall take to myself the highest praise.
From Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
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 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
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
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
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