A recent issue of "The Timex" contained an illustration of the Japanese sword which is about to be presented to the King of the Relgions, if indeed it has not actually been presented. It is a beautiful work of art and dates back to the latter part of the sixteenth century when Nagagawa Shikiyemonnojo Yukiané lived at Osafuni and helped to make the province of Bizen famous for fine blades. The mount. ings of the hilt and scabbard are of gold elaborately chased, as befits a weapon once worn by nobles on duty as guards at the Imperial Palace. The idea of presenting King Albert with an "Efu-no-Tachi", as this sword is called, oriminated with Mr. Ryubei_ Mura-yama, the proprietor of he Asahi who, it is said, chose it from his private art collection. No gift more representative of Japan's fine loyalty to the Allies could possibly: have been chosen, as so chivalrous and brave a man as King Albert will be the first to recognize. The splendid courage with which his subjects have fought and held Original fr
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