Show I JAPANESE IN All Wonderful W Exhibition Opened in iii London Showing Progress Made by the Little Brown BrownL L People Since Earliest Times NOTHING LIKE IT EVER SHOWN IN THE WORLD Lifelike Reproductions of the I Ancestors of the Subjects and Realistic Scenes Taken From Nature THE BRITISH PAGEANT i I Special Cable to Y T O DO May 14 The I L J I iuli exhibition which nan avas opened J Krent grent ceremony by It l Arthur of or Connaught the tb day da before ye yesterday IK i in nn one c t the most MONt unique and interesting fairs Cal I the world orld has hall eer seen Meen anil an holds bollIa out every prospect of ut being a n success even eveni evenIn i iu In the these theMe e lays dILY illicit uben exhibitions iere rere ere thought to have haie lost all power of 01 at iii attraction attraction traction That thin Ibis exhibition I is MO u radically different from froni and infinitely more in interesting than thau others other is due du solely to the tile Japanese The tIte little brown sub subjects of If the huc exerted all nil their ingenuity to tu site give the visitors not only a fair jima idea of their amazingly rapid progress rell mt hut also alKo of 01 their past history The great palace near the main en entrance entrance entrance trance is truly wonderful Proceeding through h a realistic reproduction of the famous temple gate at Mara the an ancient ani ancient i clent capital of or Japan the visitor a himself surrounded by characteristically cally quaint stone atone lanterns and noble cedars in an extensive structure fun fUji fu i of the poetry o of Japanese art The great hall hail is divided diY into twelve brilliant sections each containing an historic tableau The first of the these then e representations carries the mind back hk Ita k centuries to the time cf ef the great emperor from whom the present emperor is descended in ina ina ina a direct line It shows the architecture architecture architecture ture costumes and weapons which are said to have existed In fn that most mos re remote remote remote mote era These vivid scenes are rendered more realistic by b the fact that the figures are all life Ufe size The next tableau showing the Nara ara period A D is Illustrative ot of the epoch when Intercourse was be begun ben begun gun n with Korea and China when was first Introduced and art artand artand artand and learning spread rapidly over the theland theland theland land enriching the landscapes of the these thee e mysterious isles with countless tem tern temples temples ples pIes and magnificent pagodas The fig figures figures figares ures ares shown as arousing the cachets with music are a e wearing the tIle actual costumes donned by b their forbears in those days Three Tableaux On again to the time between the removal of the court to Kyoto yoto oto 9 A D and the fall of the Fujiwara family 1050 A D These were known respectively as the Helan and the th Fuji Fujiwara wara wars periods and are Illustrated by three tableaux The first shows a handsome gateway from which a high official Is proceeding arrayed in all the panoply of power There is a a carriage drawn by m eke ed oxen followed by his retinue and watched by b a crowd of commoners The second depicts some of the ancient Japanese social customs music and dancing in inthe the form in which they existed so 80 n 1 after their introduction from the Asi AM Asiatic continent In the third representation Illus Illustrating the Fujiwara period the Le LeIs is full of ot significance The time wa was characterized by female dominance and by b the strides made In literature and art With all Its color and pageantry and pleasure It was not in all aU re respects respects respects productive of the best in the I nation and the picture with a noble nobleman nobleman man and the ladles ladies of his family re reclining reI I clining in a boat among beautiful gar garden garden garden den scenery tells Its own story The Gampel epoch of SO 30 years from Continued on Page Nine JAPAN JAPANESE SE IN ALL THE AGES I Continued From Front Page Oae 1156 1 to 1185 occupies the sixth apart apartment apartment ment meat At 1 this time there raged the Japanese Wars of ot the Roses be between between tween the rival houses of or Malra Maim and Minamoto and these were years when hen Japanese chivalry was at Its height The love oe of or arms Is 15 typified by b the gallant figures grouped before a strongly fortified castle Sports of ot Century Ago ARO Within a few paces the visitor passes i on to Kamakura the period from the es establishment establishment of or the feudal capital of Kamakura In 1192 to the fall In 1333 of ot the Hojo Hoj family Here are depicted depleted the popular sports of that epoch and we see Samurai in the excitement of the chase hunting the wild boar the stag or with falcons eager for the quarry rhe The eighth tableau shows a performance of the classic No Xo dance In the Ashikaga times with all aU its wealth or of olor color and gorgeous costumes while the ninth reveals a Samurai with his family at a meal about the time when In the period the great Taiko came Into power The tenth scene is devoted to a cherry In I tho th t od f 16 r to i which wh chr fair dames and iid maidens are borne In gay palanquins The next view consists oC or a representation of f the tea ceremony which came into vogue since the Ashikaga days dars Modern Japan Japan today is the l tableau The scene is to be laid in Tokio near the Imperial palace Here are seen autos and bicycles Japanese in modern dress dr ss and carriages foreign for tour tourists tourIsts tourists and officials Japanese officers and civilians and all the o ot or a great cosmopolitan gathering For the embellishment of or these tab tableaux tableaux tableaux all the great collections of Ja Japan Japan Japan pan have hac been laid under contribution and thus those who vho visit the exhibition exhibition exhibition tion have a unique opportunity not only of ot learning the successive stages of or Japans civilization but also of or ex examining examining examining authentic specimens of ot her art artin artIn artIn in all ages The Treasures of the Nation found In the Palace or Fine Arts are representative representative of the skill of or a preeminent preeminently ly I artistic nation which was producing great painters so far back as the ninth century and ana great sculptors two cen centuries 1 tunes earlier It Is only as a compliment ment to Great Britain that Japan has allowed these precious pictures rarely seen In Nippon and never before out of ot it to be sent here and In no cir circumstances circumstances will such a compliment be I paid again In the same way wa I IThen Some Wonderful Exhibit Then there are marvels of horticulture horticulture horticulture ture showing some of or the secrets and triumphs of ot Japanese gardening Two acres cres of ot the ground have been laid out by Japanese artist gardeners either I with full sized gardens or with land landscapes landscapes landscapes In la miniature in which the vis visitor visItor IS will see beauty in a form hitherto comparatively unknown naval exhibits displays of I old armor Japan as she appears in each of or the four seasons what women have I achieved In iii art and poetry and what they the have accomplished when stirred I by b the sacred glow of patriotism the production of or silk from the cocoon to i ithe the graceful folding fabrics agriculture agrIculture agriculture ture in a series of instructive tableaux I and the implements used by the horny horn handed banded sons of ot toll toil in that faraway land are all on view Lastly there Is a charming Japanese fair with craftsmen at work a village of the once famous f head headhunters headhunters headhunters hunters and another of ot the original inhabitants of Japan Amos who still retain the habits and customs of their prehistoric ancestors There are Jap Japanese Japanese Japanese 1 anese theatres and i aces where the he ancient tea ceremony is performed The concert at the Crystal palace on Empire day May M y 24 which will mark the official opening of or the Festival of the Empire promises to be b one of the most Important functions of the pres present present present ent season The king and queen will be present The program will be thoroughly British Brit British BritIsh ish The choir will consist of or voices and there will be an orchestra of ot 1800 Among the performers in inthe Inthe Inthe the Pageant of London the great spec spectacular spectacular spectacular attraction of the festival will willbe willbe willbe be a princess a viscount a baron and anda a baronet baron t all taking conspicuous parts Princess Ludwig zu Loewenstein Wertheim daughter of the late Earl Earlor of or Is to appear In the dainty costume of a lady at the court of King George In the scene which symbolizes the triumph after the cap capture capture capture ture of or Quebec and the simultaneous mourning for General Wolfe Viscount Hill with the sword and cockade of or his ancestor Lord Hill Bill who as sea gen general eral cral of the forces distinguished himself during the Peninsular war Is to take part in the episode of 1814 The End of the Great War AVar representing the re rejoicing rejoicIng rejoicing after the defeat of ot Napoleon As the Black prince Lord Howard oward de do Walden will ride across the pageant page nt grounds in company with Queen Philippa Phil PhilIppa PhilIppa Ippa to attend the tournament in the scene Tho The Age of Chivalry Sir Sim Simeon eon Stuart will represent King Henry V returning as victor alter after Agin Agincourt Agincourt Agincourt court to receive the rapturous wel wet welcome welcome come of the citizens of London Performers for the pageant are still wanted to make up the total of There Is a wireless telegraph installation Installation installation tion at the Crystal palace by which It 11 is hoped to keep up communication from the main offices in the palace buildings to behind the scenes of ot the pageant ground Tragic Death of Farmer A wide district of or South Derbyshire remote from railways and containing a sparse population is seething with ex excitement excitement excitement over the tile tragic and mysterious mysterIous ious Ions death of John Massey a retired farmer of a village six si miles from Derby Mr Massey gave up the tenancy t nancy of the Rook Hook Hills farm last year when he lost his wife Though nearly 75 years of age the old man took a little place on the lonely outskirts oC or the parish with a few head bead of or stock to occupy his attention The only other member of the household was a young domestic servant who on Monday aft afternoon afternoon afternoon was engaged in gathering eggs whilst her master went to milk his cow in a little shed sixty or seventy yards away way a About 5 the girl passed the shed and on looking in saw her mas master master master ter on the ground unconscious She failed to rouse him and ran away in a state of or fright to Rook Hills to fetch the tile son Mr Massey was badly bat battered battered battered about the head and there was abundant evidence that there had been beena a struggle That robbery robb ry was the mo too motive motive tive was proved by the fact that a trousers pocket had been cut away Mr Massey died about three hours houn after the discovery without out being able to recount the story S ory of or the tragedy Two suspicious looking men had been seen in the neighborhood during the afternoon and had bad molested a postman post postman postman man Throughout the night a close search was maintained for men answer answering answering answerIng ing their descriptions with the result that this afternoon two arrests were effected at Hatton on the tho Derby and road about four miles from the scene of ot the tho tragedy The men men were charged on suspicion and nd during the evening were brought to Derby and lodged In the county police station I They tramps are apparently working men not |