On the left bank of the Bosphorus, before the marbled splendor of the Ciragan Imperial Palace, the government of Turkey was sponsoring a feast.
By 2:28 pm he was back on the tarmac at Haneda and at 3:06 was registering his return at the Imperial Palace.
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There is the Forbidden City, which is the ancient imperial palace where dozens of Chinese emperors ruled the country for 500 years.
Barth and Mustique (particularly when there are homes like Shogun -- set alone on a cloistered estate and reminiscent of a Japanese imperial palace, koi pond included)?
The Spiral building was financed by Wacoal, a staid old Kyoto lingerie maker that also raised eyebrows with its Tokyo branch office, on prime land near the Imperial Palace.
In November last year archaeologists located a grotto deep beneath Augustus's imperial palace that may have been the shrine where ancient Romans worshipped Romulus, the founder of the city according to legend.
Earlier this year several hundred homeless temporary workers set up a tent village in Hibiya Park in central Tokyo, across from the labour ministry and a few blocks from the Imperial Palace.
In the Imperial Palace's moats, there is an even graver concern that the largemouths will gobble up the native goby, a fish that Emperor Akhito, a trained icthyologist, has a particular affection for.
According to legend, travelling performers of "bugaku, " the ritual dance and music of the imperial palace, visited Hachimantai Town in northern Japan in the early eighth century, during the reconstruction of Dainichido, the shrine pavilion.
The bass, as they always do, proliferated--either moved by migrating birds or fishing enthusiasts--and are now found in lakes from the capital to Kyoto, and even in eight of the 13 moats that surround Tokyo's Imperial Palace.
In 1868, samurai from the two remote southern domains of Satsuma and Choshu seized the imperial palace in Kyoto, declared the restoration of the Meiji emperor and brought to a sudden end two-and-a-half centuries of rule by the Tokugawa shogunate.
So it was that when a handful of bankers from Lehman Brothers met executives of Marubeni, one of Japan's largest trading houses, at Marubeni's headquarters across from the Imperial Palace last autumn, they never suspected that they were actually being drawn into a massive fraud.
In 1860, British troops burned the Yuanmingyuan, the imperial summer palace in Beijing, to the ground.
At the time, media reported that Poly was willing to pay any price to reclaim the sculptures which French and British troops plundered from the Imperial Summer Palace in 1860.
The ornate plaster ceiling of a room, designed to look like the interior of an imperial Chinese palace, was covered by multiple coats of paint, forming a deposit more than a centimeter thick.
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Legend has it that Peking duck and other imperial fare were smuggled out of palace, giving the masses a taste for finer dining.
There is also the Summer Palace, a massive imperial garden built in the 18th century that is on the outskirts of the city.
Grandiose ideas, perhaps too easily uttered amid the imperial splendour of Vienna: the Hofburg Palace, Heldenplatz (Heroes' Square) and a parliament building seemingly vast enough to embrace all 8m Austrians, not just their elected representatives.
His newest opening is the Emperor, a wooden-screened palace where guests are served in the imperial style.
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