Imagine then the halls of the pa-Ince, crowded with dignitaries of every description who on the night of the 13th await the passing of the body of the late Emperor. The cas ket, in which the body lies, measures nearly ten feet by five and weighs one-and-a-half tons. It is covered with pure white silk and it is carried on a heavy two-wheeled bier, the wheels being so constructed make seven melancholy creeking sounds as they revolve.
This particular effect is the excl carpenter Okamoto, of Kioto, whoee family for generations has been accustomed to build such biers for the Imperial Court of Japan.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.