Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An emperor of Japan.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Emperor of Japan, sometimes erroneously spoken of as the spiritual emperor. See
shogun .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The popular designation of the hereditary sovereign of Japan; the emperor of Japan.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun history A former title of the
emperors ofJapan during a certain period. - noun literary Any
emperor ofJapan . - noun A
game of skill , in which identical wooden sticks must be removed from a pile without disturbing the remaining sticks
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- noun the emperor of Japan; when regarded as a religious leader the emperor is called tenno
Etymologies
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Examples
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Unquestioning obedience to the mikado was the primary religious duty.
Outline of Universal History George Park Fisher 1868
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The mikado is a very interesting touch - it adds a sense of innocence.
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That might be true mikado, but he did give Betty sexy lips.
Straight From the Hartley Jaime J. Weinman 2008
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These include Mikado pheasant (Syrmaticus mikado), collared bush-robin (Tarsiger johnstoniae), white-whiskered laughingthrush (Garrulax morrisonianus), and flamecrest (Regulus goodfellowi).
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The city itself is really the leading character, the capital of the old kingdom, once the seat of the mikado and his court, still
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We shall not mention the various ways in which the public money is wasted, as this would cause the nation to blush, and the mikado to mourn.
Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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Yielding to pressure from above and below, the tycoon begged the ambassadors to consent to the removal of the buildings to some other site in the metropolis less obnoxious to the mikado and to the populace, all the expense of which the Japanese Government offered to pay.
Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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Japanese themselves have to say on the question of the relations betwixt the foreigner and their own Government, and it is not likely that the subjoined translation of a document, purporting to be a protest addressed to the tycoon's ministers, but intended as a complaint against them to the mikado or spiritual emperor, will be found too long for perusal:
Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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Even the palaces of the mikado in Kioto never contained tables, chairs, bedsteads or any such inconvenient and space-robbing thing.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various
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Why was such an incredible sum of money spent for all the vain and useless pomp which accompanied the sister of the mikado on her journey to Yedo, preparatory to her marriage with the tycoon?
Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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