Banquets to be Followed by Visits to Shrine at Ise Kyoto, Nov. 16.
To-day, shortly before noon, was held the first of the two state banquets marking the successful conclusion of the an-picious events of the past few days. The second will take place to-morrow, after which other banquets and celebrations of various kinds will follow.
These will continue until the 26th this month, when Their Imperial Majesties will set outen their return journey to Tokyo.
The main events during this tervening period will be the visit of the Emperor and Empress to the Grand Shrine at Ise on the 20th, to report to the Sun Goddess that the accession ceremonies have been completed, and it to the mausoleum of Jimma Tenno, the first Emperor of Japan, at Uncbi fon the 23rd. Similar visits will be paid to the mausolea: of the Em-perers Ninko and Komei, the 120th and 121st Emperors of Japan, on the 24th, and to the mausoleum of the great Emperor Meiji at Momo-yama'on the 25th.
On the occasion of each of these visits, Their Imperial Majesties will be accompanied by a military escort and special rites of worship. will be performed. Finally, after leaving Kyoto on the 26th and breaking the journey at Nagoya where they will spend the night, the Emperor and Empress, together. with their personal retinns, of princes and princesses, ritualists, high officials and others, will enter Tokyo in state the following day, and the elaborate ceremonies. marking the accession of the: Emperor to the Throne will be brought to a conclusion by grand naval and military reviews a few: days Iater—Reater.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.