It sounds like a fairytale -- a young prince meets his future wife on a tennis court, sparking a romance that enchants a nation. But the marriage of Japan's now-Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko was more than a royal wedding (via CNNStyle)
In the late 1950s, royal wedding fever swept Japan. Then-Crown Prince Akihito had fallen for literature graduate Michiko Shoda, whom he met on a tennis court in 1957 in a fateful encounter that came to be known as the"love match."
Crown Prince Akihito of Japan and his fiancee Michiko Shoda play tennis at the Tokyo Lawn Tennis Club, on December 6, 1958 in Tokyo, Japan."A 'Mitchi boom' exploded nationwide," said one of the magazine's current reporters, Yukiya Chikashige, who has covered the imperial family for more than three decades.
Historically, Japanese emperors were revered as human deities. They rarely, if ever, interacted with the public. But from an early age Emperor Akihito, who steps down on Tuesday, began taking down the centuries-old barriers between the royal family and the public -- especially as he courted and then married Michiko.
Along with his team from Tokyo Broadcasting System , Suzuki set up 12 camera positions to capture the event.Television sets had only arrived in the country six years earlier, and live broadcasting was in its infancy. Prior to the royal wedding, footage had been delivered from fixed cameras. But the event marked one of the first instances when moving cameras, mounted on dollies, were used, according to Suzuki.
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