Saionji
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Prince Konoye led a hot youth but was early marked for advancement by potent old Prince Saionji, now the 87-year-old Last of the Genro and chief adviser to the Throne.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus the Prince Saionji sequence was briefly filled out in Manhattan by a helpful Japanese whose resemblance to the Last of the Genro is so close that few laymen can detect the synthetic bit.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was then prevented from accepting by Prince Saionji because the time was not ripe.
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
Marquis Saionji was a companion in his boyhood to the present emperor.
From A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues by Suyematsu, Baron Kencho
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