The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-22
pEArH-sep WEDDING.

How shall 1 my tree?
The and the are as white as she.
By the fragrance the evening air.
Shalt thou find her there
Japanese Love Song
With the melodies which the wedding cere-
of Japan Hattori, bridegroom. sang these
words, while his love- o Yuki Chan. dead in her
riage robes. lay in her coffin his side to
prove to the whole world the depth of his of
right went through the marriage living
welded to the dead-as bravery loyalty though
rrevocable had forever robbed them OF
the anticipated height of human joy
True, despite deaths separation this story Japan
youths wedding details of which here made pub
lie for the time by Hoshi. publisher Japan
and America gives Americans not only the history of
remarkable strikingly illustrates Japan
of right which Sir Edwin Arnold has mmor
talized.
In Kochi. Japan" said Mr. Hosh. there was a
young woman and a young who engaged
Engagement in Japan is different than in America.
Here people something of each other. Young folks
talk, laugh. sing and play togethr: there such
things heard Young girls not
speak the boys. Only the very lowest people let
their girls and boys together. So the bride
groom-tobe. having the he wants to
marry unless perhaps he her walking with
her mother. must either place pot of flowers her
doorstep and wait to whether the young woman
cherishes his gift allows the flowers to wither and
thereupon correspondingly respondent,
else he must get gobetween, an Intermediary to
him.
"These go-betweens are usually the intimate friend
young mans father. To him the young man.
when he reaches a maria geable age says: 'Nakodo
intermediary please pick me beautiful intelligent
graceful loving for wife The 'nakodo.'
who gets his services, but usually receives
"a beautiful wedding present at the wedding feast,
among the families OF his acquaintance and,
having selected a maiden whom he thinks may suit his
young friend seeks her hands in marriage through her
parents.
For the young in this case the nakodo had
selected a bride who was willing Her parents were
pleased the prospective bridegrooms parents
equally pleased and parents the bride had
pared many wedding gifts which are. with US.
necessary expression of the esteem in which young
woman is held with her family
Il will meet you at sunset she had said her
fance before her wedding eve after he had
his gifts and in the Of her mother
had bowed himself from the door.
when sunset she missing The bride
groom Joined in search. Presently he bit Of
Ter futterns in the wind and in the twilight he
found her hanging rafter in outhouse-dead.
.Kami God called her all he said and called
her parents Her joy more than she could bear
said the mother.
in America in Japan parents obliged by ETH
qettte friends and relatives of the dead
bright pupil and had loved her bright personality
pine branches sign of their affection, while
bronze with chrysanthemums ar
ranged To represent the masts and rigging ship
port-a of serenity.
Until the bars floating the Uyeno pines
hour they laid their blossoms on the
dead girls bier. Then all was changed The bride
groom had insisted upon a wedding ceremony FROM
mourning merrment, from tears and rehearsal OF
the gaety of the wedding hour, was
the transition of that moment Servants with flaming
which the crest of of the
brides family quickly brought; lights sprang up
all over the place within the in front of the
tokonoma of honor sat the bridegroom ready
for the festival his side the coffin
$50 they wed and the brides name struck
from her family register and substituted pm her
husbands. They had also drank from the little
cups filed decorated with the two butter
flies. The loyal youth Che only 2Q had pledged
himself to the cup. which to the Japanese is
token o sharing bliss and sorrow together, and the
hour general rejoicing over.
Sorrow ruled They took her presents
and things the dead girl had loved and laid them
in the large white coffin beside her, and the husband
alone watched throughout the night with his dead.
with morning the hour for the funeral
Headed by servant, with policemen to preserve
way the cemetery. cOoe flower bearers.
two by two, with the customary black on their
dressed in white robes marched with their
Of aponcas huge bouquets of plum blossoms
held in green bamboo stems. which the name OF
the donor. These followed by the coffin. which
was bourne on poles mems shoulders. Then came
the husband his kuruma, followed by the family and
near friends, teachers and schoomates.