Saionji
Americannoun
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As if to symbolize the militarists' ten-year rise to power, their greatest single opponent, the Emperor's most respected personal adviser, Elder Statesman Prince Kimmochi Saionji, died at 91.
From Time Magazine Archive
Prince Saionji doubtless felt that his choice, his advice, had been the shrewdest possible, an adroit steering between dangerous alternatives.
From Time Magazine Archive
Prince Saionji drove through the Cherry Village Gate, gained the moated island upon which His Majesty dwells in the heart of Tokyo and came obsequiously into the Presence.
From Time Magazine Archive
From his rustic villa at Okitsu in a speeding motor car Prince Saionji raced through night and snow to nearby Shizuoka where he was guarded by 100 police who kept the secret from murderous mustards.
From Time Magazine Archive
Prince Ito, indeed, stepped out of its ranks, but he was succeeded by his intimate friend, Marquis Saionji, one of Japan's blue-blooded aristocrats, and to him the Constitutionists have yielded implicit obedience ever since.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)
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