1894. The flowery kingdom and the land of the Mikado, or, China, Japan, and Corea : containing their complete history down to the present time

The flowery kingdom and the land of the Mikado, or, China, Japan, and Corea : containing their complete history down to the present time ... (1894)
Author: Northrup, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909; Young, John Russell, 1841-1899
Publisher: Cleveland : American Book Concern

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Seimou, the thirteenth Mikado, was ten feet high. The wives of the Mikados, who governed the Empire in the capacity of Regent, were equal in point of character to their venerable husbands. One of them, Zingou, A.D. 201, equipped a fleet, and , embarking at the head of a select army, crossed the Sea of Japan and conquered the Corea, from whence she returned just in time to give birth to a future Mikado.

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