JAPAN, A fow days ago K breathed his Inst at his little house thated in the premises of Gotobu Temple, Sedagaya, in the suluchs of Tokio, where rests the rema of that courays councillor in the la vs the Shogunate. The life of this grave keeper. although uneventful in the extreme, Fowever ro one respect. He not among the retinue that accompanied their unfortunate lord in his last journey to his castle, He was among those hundreds of the retainers of Hikone who on receipt of the alarming intelligence hurried to Yedo, bent on demanding nitisfuction from tie Lord of Mito whi former retainers most of the assassins The relations between the two great houses became extremely strained and it was even feared at one' time that a deadly quarrel might arise between the two. Happily by the intervention of the Shogunate and by the council of calmer minded retainers in the wronged house, the thing onaed in an outward peace being patched up and Japan was saved from a sanguinary internecine yr. Tt wax when the had been settled in that way that the subject of this sketch decided to renounce the world and to devote himself during the rest of his life to the task of guarding the tomb of hit whom fate refused him the j at his last moment. He petitioned the house of his lord for permission to do so, but it was not easy to, get permission for besides the fact that the thi ceedingly novel, Enjo's of the lowest. At last however his sin-canty overcome every obstacle he became a devout tender of the 1s the Yemaini premises of the temple. devoting himself with the pions faithfulness rarely met with in these da task of keeping in <erapulous cleanliness the tomb and its enclosure. His on diversion consisted in' draws pictures, and in entertaining with his trative the visitors to the tombs. Sad the death of Enjo is. it cannot but strike us with the thought of wh ast change has come over our country during the short period of only three decades, or four.—* Japan Times."
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