Japan and the Japanese illustrated . ^^^^^^ JAlANlvSE IDEA OF A RAILWAY TRAIN. pleasure gardens, formerly the private grounds of the Taikoun, were thrown open to thepublic. All the foreign ministers from Yokohama were present, and the representativesof the press invited to attend, in accordance with the most advanced views of modernenlightenment. At nine in the morning the Mikado left the castle, in a state carriageof European construction, and attended by a prince of the Imperial family, the prime THE MIKADO VISIBLE. 375 minister, and a si[u;ulron of cavalry ; followed by tlie other members o
Japan and the Japanese illustrated . ^^^^^^ JAlANlvSE IDEA OF A RAILWAY TRAIN. pleasure gardens, formerly the private grounds of the Taikoun, were thrown open to thepublic. All the foreign ministers from Yokohama were present, and the representativesof the press invited to attend, in accordance with the most advanced views of modernenlightenment. At nine in the morning the Mikado left the castle, in a state carriageof European construction, and attended by a prince of the Imperial family, the prime THE MIKADO VISIBLE. 375 minister, and a si[u;ulron of cavalry ; followed by tlie other members of the JapaneseGovernment and by some of the chief nobles then resident in the capital. Arriving at the station, where he was received by the ^Minister of Public Works, thechief Commissioners of Railways, the Foreign Ministers and other officials, he inspecteda plan of the railway; and a procession was then formed to the platform, from whiclihe entered the train, followed by the rest of his suite and the privileged few who wereinvite
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