Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1895 — Japan's Ex-Tycoon. [ARTICLE]

Japan's Ex-Tycoon.

It may interest some people to know that the ex-Tycoon, of Japan, the last of the Tokugama dynasty—the last of the fierce Shoguns who ruled the country for so many years with mailed hand—is still living. His home is at Shiznoka- He is now in the sixties, and he leads a sort of hermit life. lam informed that he receives very little company and is practically inaccessible to strangers. Formerly he visited Tokyo occasionally. No political disability rests upon him, as he voluntarily abdicated all power during the revolution of 1868. He takes no part in public affairs whatever. His chief pastime is hunting, though he is growing rather old for that. This man is the son of that Tycoon, who received and treated with Commodore Perry in 1854. He came to the throne a few years after that important event. What changes he has seen ! What mighty results he has noted as a sequence of that simple introduction of Japan to the now world of the far West! Not long ago the ex-Tycoon, while hunting, - accidentally shot and severely injured one of the poor farmers of his neighborhood. The affair worried him greatly, and he has of late shown a disposition to give up the chase altogether.