This splendid title, first awarded by the Japanese government in 1950, has been used to honour not just Kabuki, Noh and Bunraku actors, but woodblock printers, potters and other traditional craft artists.
In Scotland lowly Clyde are awarded the splendid epithet the Bully Wee, while south of the border mighty Liverpool can barely be arsed with a nickname at all.
The proposed new Nobel Center, to be built in central Stockholm, would draw 600,000 visitors a year, provide a splendid new venue for Nobel award ceremonies, and become a hub for science, education, and literature.
In June 1917, Sergeant Rita (or Lita), a black non-commissioned officer later described by Tomlinson as "a splendid soldier", received the highest award ever given to an RNR askari, the Distinguished Conduct Medal, "for conspicuous gallantry in action on many occasions.
That splendid debut, which won several awards in Britain, reads like a memoir.
Bowen's association with the Geophysical Laboratory extended, in all, more than 35 years, and his long and splendid record was recognized by the award of honours from learned societies in the United States and Europe.
But for one critic, with one review, to derange and bag no fewer than 35 mewling, whining, Arts Council apparatchiks and awards recipients is a splendid achievement.
How splendid that, amid the British independent film awards given to Peter Strickland's Berberian Sound Studio, the thanks on stage included what I believe is probably the first ever shout-out to the boom operator.
A splendid series of adult rôles was awarded him — Svengali, the Duke in "Jew Süss," and the King in "Hamlet" — and he played them to frantic applause from the Gate audiences.
Olive Kelso King did splendid work in this fire, and was awarded the Gold Medal for bravery by the Serbian Headquarters for which she was now working.
Only the mosque lamps were indisputably intended for a religious setting, and the six splendid examples in the show have been awarded a chapel-like space of their own.
