Year: 1879




The Palace of Enriokwan--General Grants home
In Tokio--is few minutes ride from the railway
station. This palace of the homes of the
Tycoon. 1t now belongs to the Emperor. II your
ideas of palaces are European even American.
you will be disappointed with Enriokwan. One
somehow associates palace with state spiendor.
profuson of color and decoration. with upholstery
and marble. There is nothing of this in Enriokwan
You approach the grounds over a dusty road that
runs by the side of canal. The canal Is sometimes
in an oozing condition. and boats are held IN the
mud. You bridge and enter low gateway,
and, going few PAGES. enter another gateway. Here
Is guardhouse, with soldiers guard and lolling
about benches waiting for the bugle to sum-
them to offices Of ceremony. There IS
good deal of ceremony in Enriokwan. with the con-
slant coming and going of great people, and no
sound is familiar than the sound of the bugle.
You pass the guardhouse and go down pebbled
way to a low. one story building. with wings. This
is the Palace of Enriokwan. Over the door is the
crysanthemum, the Emperors special flower.


THE ENRIoKwAN.


The main building is series of reception rooms
in various styles of decoration notably Japanese
There eight different rooms in ALL in any OF
which you may receive your friends. General Grant
the small room to the left Of the hall you
enter. On ceremonial occasions he the main
saloon, which extends one-half the length of the
palace Here hundred people could be entertained
with ease. This room is beautiful specimen of
Japanese decorative art and you never become so
familiar with 1t that there not constant surprises
in the way OF color form design. Each of the
rooms is decorated differently from the others. The
apartments of General Grant and party in
wing the dining room, billiard and the apart
ments of the Japanese officials attendance in the
other wing. Around the palace is verlnda with
proW flow in usip uay,da awfug LIANT
The beauty of the palace is not in its architecture
which is plain and Inexpensive but in the taste
which marks tho most minute detail of decoration
and in the arrangement of the grounds.


THE PALACE GARDENS. .f


Enrokwan is an island. On one side is canal
and embarked walls on the other side the ocean.
Although in ancient and populous city. sur
rounded by teeming, busy metropolis you feel
you pass into Enriokwan that you
in fortress and as secluded as in forest The
grounds large and remarkable for tho beauty and
finish of the landscape gardening In the art OF gar
dening Japan excels the world, and have seen no
more attractive specimen than the grounds of En-
rokwau. Roads. flower beds. lakes, bridges. artif-
cial mounds, creeks overhung with sedgy over
growths, lawns, boats, bowers over which vines
trailing, summer houses. all combine to give
fort to Enriokwan. If you sit on this veranda
under the columns where the General sits
every evening. you look out upon ripe and
perfect landscape, lowered with green. If you walk
into the grounds few minutes you pass q gate-an
inner gate. which is locked at highland come to
lake, on the banks of which is Japanese summer
house. The lake is artificial and fed from the sea-
You a bridge and to another summer
house. Here two boats tied up. with the i'm
perial crysanthemum emblazoned their bows.
These the private boats of the Emperor and if
you care for a pull you and lose
yourself in one OF the creeks. You ascend grassy
mound, however, not more than forty feet high.
Steps cut in the side Of the mound, and when
you reach the summit you beneath you the waves
and before you the ocean. The at this point
forms bay. When the tides are down and the
waves are calm You fishermen wading about
seeking shells and shefsh. When the tides are up
the boats sail near the shore. and sometimes rs you
are stroling under the trees you look up and see
through the foliage sail float past you, firm and
steady and bending to the breeze.


THE GENERALS IN EsRIoKwAN.


What impresses you you look at Enriokwan
from the summit of your mound is its complete
seclusion. The Tycoons. when they to rest
and breathe summer air tempered by the sea. evil
IDENTIFY wished to be away from the world and here
they could lead sheltered life. 1t is q place for
contemplation and repose. You walk about in
the grounds until you are weary. and IL You take
wonderful
old trees gnarled and bending under the burden of
immemorial years. every step will be full OF inter-
est. You climb your mound and commence
with the sea-the ships going and coming. the fish,
ermen on the beach. the that sweep ON and
on If you want to fish. you will find poetry of
fishing in Enriokwan, for servants float about you
and bait your hook and guard what you catch. and
you have no work or trouble or worms to finger, no
scales to pick from your hands. II you to read
write you find seclusion In one OF the sum.
NOR houses. IL is evening. after dinner,
you can come and smoke wander around under
the trees and look at the effect of the moonlight
the sea or the lake. Whatever you do or wherever
you 90 you have you the of protection.
Our hosts are kind that cannot leave the pal
ace without escort. You stroll of with naval
friend from of the ships show tho grounds or
hear the last gossip from the hospitable wardrooms
of the Ashuelot or Richmond. Behind you comes q
couple OF servants, who to riso out of the
ground as 1t wero They come unbidden and carry
trays bearing water and wine cigars IL you 90
into one of the summer houses they stand guard,
and IL you 60 on the lake they await your return.
The of being always under observation was at
hrst oppressive. You felt that you were giving
trouble. You did not want TO have tho responsible.
ity of dragging other people after you. You
peciay did not care about the trays laden with
wine. But the custom belongs to Enriok wan
and in time you become used to 1t and unconscious
of your retinues.


PALACE ECONOMIES.


You wonder at the number of servants about
you-servants for everything. There, for instance,
Is gardener working over tree. The tree is one
of the dwarf species that you see in Japan-onc of
the eccentrictios of landscape gardcning-and this
gardener Alcs and clips and adorns hs tree
fully as lapidary furnishing gem. "There has
been work enough done that tree" said the Gen
oral. "snce have beon hero raise all the food
small family would require during the winter"
Labor. the General thinks. is too good thing to be
Insappliod and when the result OF the labor ~
plum tree that yon could put your dinner table.