xvi, 179 pp. Illustrated throughout from photographs, prints, wood engravings and figure drawings; 1 tipped-in color wood block. Cover designs by Seika Yamashika. Decorative endpapers. (Folio) 17x12, thick boards covered with decorative purple cloth, front cover with a rooster design stamped in tan, blue, green, yellow, red, violet, and white, orange cloth pieces to top and bottom of gilt-stamped spine, two multi-colored cloth-ribbon ties, publisher's jacket and chemise with two bone clasps. Official "Enthronement Edition."

A complete account of the Enthronement ceremonies from December 25, 1926 to December 13, 1928, together with special articles interpreting those ceremonies, and greetings to His Imperial Majesty the Emperor and the Japanese people from foreign sources. Includes a series of 6 color photographs of the book and its contents, stapled together and laid in. Lacks the scarce mounted red cloth frontispiece sample from the Imperial Majesty's Robe. English text.