The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-15
Wonderful Exhibition Opened
in London Showing Progress
Made by the Little Brown
People Since Earliest Times.
NOTHING LIKE 1T EVER
SHOWN IN THE WORLD
LifeIike Reproductions of the
Ancestors of the MikadO'S
Subjects and Realistic
Scenes Taken From Nature,
THE BRITISH PAGEANT

Especial Cable 20 Herald Republican,
ONDON. Mny 1.-The JaFan-Brit-
4 ish exhibition. which was opened
with great ceremony by Prince
Arthur OF COnnauSht. the day before
yesterday, il in many respects one "t
the most unique and interesting fairs
the world has ever seen, and holds Out
every prospect Of being success even
i'm these days when exhibitions were
thought to have lost all power Of At
traction
That this exhibition Il 80 radically
different from and infinitely more in
ieresfIng than others il due solely 20
the Japanese The little brown sub
jects of the MikadO have ezerted all
their ingenuity to give the visitors, not
only n fair idea Of their amazingly
rapid progress, but also Of their past
history.
The great palace near the main en-
trance is truly wonderful Proceeding
through a realistic reproduction of the
famous temple gate at Mara, the an
cient capital of Japan, the visitor tlnGs
himself surrounded by characterlStl-
caIly quaint stone lanterns and noble
cedars in an extensive structure fuiI
of the poetry Of Japanese art
/. The great hall is divided into twelve
brilliant sections. each containing an
representations carries the mind back
twenty five centuries, TO the time CT
the great emperor, Jimmu. from whom
the present emperor Is descended IN
a direct line. 1t shows the architec-
T1Ire. costumes and weapons which are
said TO have existed in that most re
rendered more realistic by the fact that
the figures are all life size
The next tableau. showing the Nara
period (1097S4 a. D. is illustrative or
the epoch when intercourse was be-
gun with Korea and China; when
Buddhism was first introduced, and art
and learning spread rapidly over the
land. enriching the landscapes OF these
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pies and ma gnificent pagOdas. The fig
ures shown as arouSinS the eSchoeS
with music are wearing the actual
costumes donned by their forbears in
those far-off days
Three TnBIeauN.
On again to the time between the
removal of the court to NyotO i99s
A. D., and the fall of the Fuiiwara
family (1050 A. ID. These were known
respectively as the Heian and the Full
wara periods, and are illustrated by
three tableauX. The first shows
handsome gateway from which high
official is proceeding arrayed in all
the -panOply of power" There is
carriage drawn by meek-eyed oxen.
followed by his retinue and watched
bv a crowd of commoners- The second
depicts some Of the ancient Japanese
social cuStOms-muSic and dancing-in
the form in which they existed soon
after their introduction from the Ash
attic continent.
In the third representation. Illus
trating the FujiWara period, the scene
is fun of significance. The time was
characterized by female dominance. and
by the strides made in literature and
art. With all its color and pSgeantry
and pleasure it was not. in all re
SDectS. productive of the best in the
nation: and the picture, with a noble
man and the ladies OF his family re-
cIining in a boat among beautiful gar
den scenery, tells its own story.
The Gampei epoch of 80 years, from
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