Word: empress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...muse hung airy as a blimp over Tokyo's Imperial Palace, where a top event of Japan's literary season, the annual poetry party, went into its lyrical finale. Seated before a huge golden screen, Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako harkened approvingly to verse by 15 finalists chosen from a record 17,238 entrants trying their hand at the formal 31-syllable waka. Then they listened solemnly while their own poems were read. The imperial family does not compete in the contest itself, this year featuring the subject of "Clouds." Hirohito's effort, read five times...
Five members of Japan's royal family obligingly strolled out on the Imperial Palace grounds in Tokyo, beamed down on Anastasia, a pet dog of Prince Alcihito (TIME, Dec. 30). With Akihito were his pretty sister Princess Suga, 18, Empress Nagako, Poetaster Emperor Hirohito (whose New Year verse on the clouds will be published next week) and 22-year-old Prince Yoshi...
...length (four hours) and the wild complexity of Poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal's libretto, compared to which a combination of The Magic Flute and Parsifal would seem simple. The story, embroidered by Librettist Hofmannsthal with the myths of not one but half a dozen cultures, concerns a beautiful empress who, being born of a spirit, does not possess anything as human as a shadow-or the ability to bear children. Since she is married to a more human ruler, she must acquire a shadow or forfeit her husband's life. With the help of a witchlike nurse...
...Albanian rulers of Egypt and overlords of the Ottoman Empire did little else to benefit mankind, they were identified with some of the most beautiful women in the world. Princess Fawzia, sister of Egypt's fat Farouk and onetime Empress of Iran, was one. Dark-eyed Princess Zehra Hanzade, granddaughter of Turkey's last Sultan and mother of Fazilet, was another. Fazilet's father, Prince Mohammed Ali, is a cousin of Farouk's. He fled Egypt when Farouk did, and got most of his vast wealth out to Europe. At first, Papa was not keen...
Sunburned after a month spent collecting and classifying plants in the 3,000 acres surrounding his Nasu Imperial Villa in Tochigi, Japan's Emperor Hirohlto took time out from scholarly puttering to be photographed informally (no tie) with his occasional companion on the botanical walks, Empress Nagako...