The Monticellonian., 1915-06-17
Gay Season Follows Mourning
 Year in Japan.
Coronation at kyoto in November Will Be Continuation of Succession of Festivals-Tokyo Society Busy
 With Functions.

Tokyo.-The years period of na tonal mourning expired on April Il, and the printers and dyers were busily engaged in removing black. the sane tuary of the late empress dowager was transferred to the Hall of Impe= rial Spirits" in the palace grounds from the temporary shrine at Aoyama, and the coronation commission has been organized with H. 1. H. Prince Fushimi as honorary president and Prince Takatsukaea as chief commis- sioner. The latter represents one Of the five noble families, whose heads alone were eligible to the post of the emperor's prime minister in former days. The height of the cherry sea son and the first anniversary of the formation of the Okuma cabinet tend to keep Tokyo society busy with gar den parties and eonvivial meetings while the stock market showed few days ago the biggest sign of returning prosperity since the boom after the Russian war.
 April IT being the tercentenary of the death of the founder of the Toku- gawa Shogunats and of the City of Tokyo, an elaborate program for commemoration is prepared in Tokyo. at his birth place, Okazaki, at Shi- dzuoka, where he had retired, and at Kunozan and Niklo, where his mem ory is kept sacred in gorgeous tenn pies. A Daimyo procession is repro duced for three days in the imperial capital. The feudal chieftain in his palanquin, carried on the shoulders of tall bearers, shakespeare" bowmen, gunners, horses and grooms, retinue of servants and porters of the per sonal effects of his lordship-all in authentic costuming and conventional manners. will parade to the Shiba park, where the Tokugawa temples stand, from three different entrances to the city on three successive days.
 The foreign community and tourists are particularly anxious to see this display. for it is only the third time that feudalism is made visible in the metropolis. The first occasion of the kind was to celebrate the thirtieth year of the imperial residence in To kyo, and the second to entertain Prince Arthur of Connaught, who came to Japan on the Garter mission, after the AngloJapanese alliance had been first formed.
 At Okazaki, on April IS, parade of impersonated Mikawa Samurai. body of single-minded and simple first Shogun. Iyeyasu, to create a reign of peace out of the chaos and constant strife of the middle ages, will attract crowds of spectators. both Japanese and foreign
 The grand finale of this years events. however, will come off in the month of November. in the shape of the coronation rites by the em- peror in his ancestral capital, Kyoto. The coronation in Japan Is somewhat different in nature from that of Eu- rope, and instead of being a purely religious ceremony the sovereign sol emnly proclaims his coming to the throne, to the imperial spirits and the people on the one hand. and on the other offers new rice to the deities of heaven and earth and partakes of it himself on the spot The proclama- tion and the accompanying state ban quet will comprise some modern fea- lures, while the ancestral worship and the shrines for that purpose will closely follow the example of primi- tive simplicity set by the earliest rulers over two thousand years ago. These functions are calculated to bring unusually large numbers of wis itors to Japanese shores from the San Francisco exposition, so that