Around the world with General Grant: a narrative of the visit of General , ex-president of the United States, to various countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879To which are added certain conversations with General Grant on questions connected with American politics and history . l Grants home in Tokio—Enriokwan—was only afew minutes ride from the railway station. This palace wasone of the homes of the Tycoon. It now belongs to the Em-peror. If your ideas of palaces are European, or even Ameri-can, you will be disappointed with Enriokwan. One somehowassociates a palac
Around the world with General Grant: a narrative of the visit of General , ex-president of the United States, to various countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879To which are added certain conversations with General Grant on questions connected with American politics and history . l Grants home in Tokio—Enriokwan—was only afew minutes ride from the railway station. This palace wasone of the homes of the Tycoon. It now belongs to the Em-peror. If your ideas of palaces are European, or even Ameri-can, you will be disappointed with Enriokwan. One somehowassociates a palace with state, splendor, a profusion of colorand decoration, with upholstery and marble. There is nothingof this in Enriokwan. You approach the grounds over a dustyroad that runs by the side of a canal. You cross a bridge EARIOKIWLX. 535 and enter a low gateway, and going a few paces enter anothergateway. Here is a guard-house, with soldiers on guard andlolling about on benches waiting for the bugle to summonthem to offices of ceremony. There is a good deal of cere-mony in Enriokwan, with the constant coming and going ofgreat people, and no sound is more familiar than the soundof the bugle. You pass the guard-house and go down a peb-bled way to a low, one-story building, with wings. This is the. palace of Enriokwan. Over the door is the is an island. On one side is a canal and em-banked walls, on the other side the ocean. Although in anancient and populous city, surrounded by a busy metropolis,you feel as you pass into Enriokwan that you are as secureand as secluded as in a fortress. The grounds are large, andremarkable for the beauty and finish of the landscape garden-ing. In the art of gardening Japan excels the world, andI have seen no more attractive specimen than the groundsof Enriokwan. Roads, flower-beds, lakes, bridges, artificial 536 JAPAN. mounds, creeks overhung with sedgy overgrowths, lawns, boats,bowers over which vines are trailing, summ
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