The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-07-30
The Real MIKADO.
DESCENDANT OF JIMMU
Personality of Mutsu Hito
Now Interesting to
the World.

At no stage of that long crisis in the
diplomatic relations of Washington
with Tokyo which the optimists of the
official world so unctuously belittle has
the personality of Mutsu Hito, 121st
emperor Of Japan, lineal descendant Of
Jimmu, who reigned over the islands
some go years before the birth of
Christ, been out Of the foreground. To
the insistence Of Mutsu Hito must be
ascrbed the eagerness with which
United States officials studied last
month the details of the attack on
japanese bathing establishment and
restaurant in San Francisco. Those
leading persons" in and out of politi-
cal life at Tokyo, to whom the dis
patches of the last fortnight ascribe
a feeling of apprehension, regarding
Japan's future relations with United
States, weigh their vexation in the
scales of Mutsu Hito. Neither the peo-
pie of the United States nor the people
|of Japan are to decide that war shall
or shall not be the outcome of the pc
culiar position in which Washington
has been placed between California s
State autonomy on the one hand and
the defiant attitude Of San Francisco
labor interests on the other. OF that,
says the Paris Temps, the world may
rest assured. Destiny in this matter
lis personified, we are told, by Mutsu
Hto, the real maker of modern Japan.
Now, when the plentiful hair and
thin beard of the emperor are streaked
with gray, his people still consider a..
cheer for their sovereign and innovat ton
in ceremonial procedure justified only
by circumstance of especial sanctity.
The astonishing sight of Mutso Hito-
five feet seven-the extreme size of his
hands and his physiognomlcal anomaly
from a Japanese standpoint, of chin
whiskers Intensity the veneration
which, as descendant of all the inn
Iperial ancestors embodying in himself
their SURPRISING virtues, their divine
rights, their special privileges, he
necessarily inspires. His countenace
is pronounced by al familiar with it
grave one, stern in repose yet capable
of relaxation into the smile. of genuine
humor. 1t is a counteance so void of
Japanese characteristics that a line
from the forehead meeting with that
from the ear to the tip of the nose
would constitute almost a right angle.
The small black eyes are dep set, keen,
restless, topped by thick brows carried
over until they almost meet above the
nose-sure evidence, say some authori-
ties of a secretive disposition. The ear
lis quite large in comparison with the
face as a whole, the mouth is wide the
lips thick, but red and shapely. The
lsquareness Of the imperial chin accords
with the universal impression that
Mutsu Hito is a man of strong will,
held in proper subsection by an intel
lect of which his lofty temples attest
the breadth and force.
To what extent the features of Nut
su Hito give point to the theory of a
negro strain in the Japanese popula-
ton has been matter of some discus
sion. His complexion would appear to
be negroid. There is an infusion of
NEGRO blood in his long ancestry, and
blacks comprised at one time the hon
ored race in Japan, The Emperor is
said to have Madagascar blood in his
veins, although no such claim is made
/ for him in that work on THE Ances-
TRY of the Mikado," which every Jap
Ianese schoolboy is so carefully taught.
| Instead of Malayan-Polynesian hy-
lbridity attributable to natives of Sierra
Leone-the dominant chronological
characteristic of Mutsu Hito from a
strictly scientific point of view-the Of
fetal ancestry of the MiSado shows
that no other ruler can approach His
Majesty in length of ancestral tree
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