Mysterious Japan; . Viscount Shibusawa, one of the Grand Old Men of .Japan,consented to pose for me, wearing his samurai swords. Viscount Kentaro Kaneko (Harvard 78), Privy Councilorto the Emperor, President of the America-Japan Society ofTokyo, and friend of President Roosevelt MYSTERIOUS JAPAN 191 face like that, even to the colour, and to the deepwrinkles of humour about the mouth and , in either case, did the promise of those wrinklesfail. When, having likened Viscount Shibusawa to anIndian chief, I also liken him to a barrel-bodied,square-jawed, weather-beaten old British squireof
Mysterious Japan; . Viscount Shibusawa, one of the Grand Old Men of .Japan,consented to pose for me, wearing his samurai swords. Viscount Kentaro Kaneko (Harvard 78), Privy Councilorto the Emperor, President of the America-Japan Society ofTokyo, and friend of President Roosevelt MYSTERIOUS JAPAN 191 face like that, even to the colour, and to the deepwrinkles of humour about the mouth and , in either case, did the promise of those wrinklesfail. When, having likened Viscount Shibusawa to anIndian chief, I also liken him to a barrel-bodied,square-jawed, weather-beaten old British squireof the perfect John Bull type, I may overtax thereaders imagination; yet there was in him as muchof the one as of the other. He was born in the country, coming of a good butnot aristocratic family. The Japan of his youthand early manhood was divided into some twohundred and fifty or three hundred feudal districts,each ruled by a daimyo, or chieftain, having hiscastles, his court, his concubines, his retainers—among the latter soldiers in armour, equipped withswords, spears or bows and arrows, and wearing hid-eous masks cal
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