Show LEST lAST SHOGUN DIES IN CAPITAL OF JAPANESE i iI ic c I Death o of Prince pince Keiki r Toku- Toku ku g gawa a Severs Sever the Last Link With Wit F Feudal u a Japan TOKIO Nov 2 22 Prince Toku- Toku gawa the last or of bf the e ShOguns died tod to to- to d- d day He wo b born m. m at Yeddo ln tn 1837 I rUm NEW YORK Nov 22 The 22 The death of Prince ce Keiki announced Inh Ina In h a bi brief cr cablegram from Tokie o to today severs seers a link Ink between tho the old anI and ne new Japan No Nore eJot of the contemporaries contempo I zaries of the the Mel pre a. a r tho the days d s I of ot the tho enjoyed no e eUch such Uch df distinction tion as hedged about Prince Kiki the thelast thelast last o of the Shoguns In Ip these theo later da days s 's o the ero ero of or en en- enlightenment In J Japan pan it Il is s doubtful If f f the tho 11 average f foreign n visitor or even eyen resident real resi dent was waa aware anaro of t the the existence ex ex- ex- ex 1st once of ot a man who b barely r b fifty years year ear ago ao was tho the do facto ruler reler of ot Japan Real Head Reid of or Nation Ho h held ld his exalted place as shogun shoun tor for only ten months In the year 8 1867 It was at the time of 0 of his coming to power that Japan found herself sub sub- to pressure from without which threatened to force her hor to renounce her time honored policy of ot entire Isolation The had to yield to the tho foreign demand anI and tho n. n treaty was wae first signed with the pleni plenipotentiary of ot the United States Stales as as the sequel to the visit of Commodore Perry with black ships Up to that time the emperor of ot Japan was little muo more te than a pa pawn wn In the dangerous game gains pla played ed between Yedo Tedo noW Tokio and arid Kyoto as aa 3 the rival ri c centers centers' of the Japanese Japanese Japa Japa- nese nose government In 1869 the Imperial authority reasserted yeas reas Itself with an nn edict from Emperor Emperor Emperor Em Em- tho the abolition lot of the tho and announcing the emperors I resumption o of or the tho governments Internal strife threatened to to exhaust tho the state i and c expose pose It as an ens easy prey to foreign foreign for for- eign sign oppression slon when Kolk voluntarily abdicated ted and t stored the powers of ot government to to- the Imperial throne Lived 1 In Seclusion V After i iab ab elJ I w to ebe he l l l ta a life of ot corneta coin corn com comI I eta tle le seclusion holding himself aloof aloot not only from nil all political a activity bu but from Cram social function of or every er description description tion In 1898 1598 he was vas advised to tak take up his his' residence in in- Tokio and tho the emperor emperor emperor em em- conferred upon him the title of or prince |