The morning call., 1892-09-17
PROUD LITTLE JAPAN.
She Will Do Her Best at the
Chicago Show.
HER COMMISSIONER HERE.
Mr.. Kuru Says He Will Set Up Row of An.
tiqus Houses-An IDEAL japanese
Settlement.

II am Japanese architect" said Com.
missioner NJ. Kuru 10 a CALL reporter at
the Lick House yesterday soon after his
arrival from the Orient Il am the CON-
missioner in charge of our party. Y. Yambe
and T. Uchida are my secretaries.
'K Ito is the representative Of the Japan
Central Tea Association. and comes over
with us to consult the Worlds Fair Com
missioners at Chicago with regard to erect
ing teahouses and places OF entertainment
In the Japanese grounds at the fair My
secretaries have been here before. out this is
my first trip, l am here to stay. By the
next steamer expect thirty skilled japanese
mechanics and gardeners, and we will set to
work at once on our designs.
Apart from &C, 600 feet of space In the art
and manufacturing building We have 10000
feet of outside space.
''It is with this latter that am concerned.
We will have most interesting exhibit. 1
| am going to cover $500 square feet OF ground
with three buildings, connected with COW
cred corridors. They will be one-story
structures.
'The first will represent Japanese build
ing of type 500 years old. The next will
be 500 and the third $50 years old in style.
| The interiors will be richly decorated in
| high Japanese art, and t6e furniture and
| fittings supplied from the Imperial Museum
at Toxic, each house being furnished with
the fittings in use at the ancient time it
represents.
81 have S17, ,0o0 to spend and expect more.
THE houses will be of wood and bamboo,
and all the material brought over from
Japan.
"The whole will form an exhibition such
as has never before been seen out of our
| country.
after the fair is over we will present the
buildings to the United States Government
| as gift.
Our Government is well satisfied at the
way in which 1t has been treated and the
most cordial relations exist between the
Commissioners on either side
"The grounds surrounding the houses will
be made into Japanese gardens.
II will lay out circular lake around
wooded islet.
Rustic japanese bridges will be thrown
across the lake.
1--WE will bring over all the trees and
potIed plants possible from Japan to make
the gardens thoroughly characteristic.
From an antiquarian point of view these
houses will be most interesting l have
been specially studying our ancient arch-
lecture for this purpose, and every detail
will be most minutely exact.
Apart from antiquity, they will, l am
sure, please the moderD artist from purely
picturesque point of view.
'Mr Ito works indepe ndently Of US. We
are Government officers; he represents a
private association. At the same time 1t is
exclusively Japanese. No foreigners are
connected with it in any shape or form. He
is unable TO say what they are going to do
until lie has consulted with the Chicago
Commissioners.
The association wants to put I'D little
teahOuses all over the grounds. in which
japanese refreshments, liquid and solid,
will be sold to the public.
Japanese ladies will make and sell tea,
and the whole will be made as characteristic
as possible.
"We leave for Chicago tomorrow"