PRINCE TAKAMATSU TO WED NEXT YEAR AND VISIT ENGLAND
(Australian and N.Z. Press Association) TOKYO, Sunday. It is unofficially announced that Prince Takamatsu, who visited New Zealand in July, will be married early in 1930 to Miss Kikuko Tokugawa, a granddaughter of the last of the Shoguns. They will then proceed to England, to return the visit of Prince Henry. The Shoguns were the Emperor’s lieu-tenant-generals, or commanders-in-chief. They held great authority in Japan from the 12th to the middle of the 19th century, a military feudalism. The fall of the. Tokugawa Shogunate occurred on October 14, 1867, when Japan first emerged as a progressive Power in the world. The Emperor Mutsuluto was crowned in November. 186 S.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 597, 25 February 1929, Page 9
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