Mutsuhito

They had impiously rebelled against that god whose other name is Mutsuhito, Mikado!

In 1869, Mutsuhito, the one hundred and twenty-third mikado in lineal descent, resumed the imperial power which had so long been lost.

Then a silver bell sounded, and his imperial and sacred majesty, Mutsuhito CXXI.,

His son Mutsuhito, then in his fifteenth year, succeeded him and is now the reigning emperor, the one hundred and twenty-first of his line.

He chose three bright and clean Japanese swords, special blades of the Samurai armorers, forged long before Mutsuhito’s grandfather was a boy—I had paid a rare price for them in Japan.