ent Ceremonial and Imposing Robes: Japan's Delight in the Wedding: Before the Place of Awe Tokyo, Sept. 23.
All Tokyo was astir from early hour this morning and all homes, official buildings, street eat and. Automobiles today flew th Rising Sun banner in honour of the wedding of Prince Chichibu, brother of His Majesty the Emperor. and Heir Presumptive to the Japanes Throne, to pretty Miss Se-Tsu-Ko Matsudaira, 19-year-old daughter of Mr, Tsunéo Matsudaira, former! Japanese ambassador to Washins-ton and now ambaswalor-elect the Court of St. James.
The Ceremonial Robes Both bride and bridegroom si tired in ceremonial weelling garments that have been worn in connection with Imperial weddings from times that go far into the dim. mists of history, Miss Tsu-Ko wore x five-fold kimono, the foundation of the ensemble being of white cream brocade,—finished Around the bottom with a huge toll fof padded silk, To this robe was, attached a gorgeously embroidered Court train that hung from her shoulders and trailed at least three yards along the floor. The kimono had immense sleeves that all but reached the ground, while the bride wore brocade slippers fashioned of the same material and hues as her Kimono, She also carried immense fan, suspended from two tassels, This fan is an heirloom of the Imperial Family and is used by every bride that marries into the Blood Royal. After the wedding, it was returned to the Court museum where it remains until it is requisitioned by another royal bride. Japanese Court regulations do not allow jewellery to be wort ud Miss Se-Tsu-Ko's only other ornamentation was a half-crown: of fine hand-wrought gold. The bride's dress, although extremely pictur fes que and designed to invest the wearer with regal dignity, was none the less one that obviously nece: sitated considerable effort when walked, Her hair was done in the typical fashion prescribed by a cient Court rites. It fell from her iberid to the waist at the back and on the sides consisted of two {mmense puffs that framed the face in an extremely pleasant design.
Thousands of persons, without any distinction of das or rank, Tined the streets through which either the bride or the bridegroom was to pass and, as a police official admonished them to "Ki.O-Tsuke."' (Behave yourselves) could be heard low ripple of murmuring, like the waves beating on a rock-bound shore, and then off came hats, while women and men both bowed respect fully. Your correspondent happened to see the equipages of both Prince Chichibu and of the future Prine ess Chichibu pass. Within the tone enrringe, one could glimpse a Diack-kimonoed figure, seated in quiet dignity; within the other a charming young lady, apparently bewildered "with the great honour that had. been literally' thrust upon thor, pale, but with her head held proudly event. 'There was no cheer ing on the part of the crowd, only' reverent bowing.
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