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Show FIRST PHOTOGRAPHS FROM JAPANESE CORONATION JU 3w - "iv SM These photographs are the first to arrive in America showing scenes at the coronation of the emperor of Japan. Above is a throng of dignitaries with their wives at Kyoto awaiting the arrival of the imperial train. Below are the oldest inhabitants of the city in the special inclosure at the palace grounds, to which they were invited in order that they might witness the imperial cortege in comfort. To every inhabitant of the empire more than eighty years old the emperor gave a silver cup. |