Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1912 — PICTURE WAS NEVER TAKEN [ARTICLE]

PICTURE WAS NEVER TAKEN

Late Emperor of Japan Refused _to Break Rule for Pho«V tographer. London.—'The death of Emperor Mutsuhito of'Japan has led to the publication of the story of an interesting and expensive journalistic enterprise that failed. The Dally Mirror says that to obtain a photograph of the late-Emper-or one of its photdferaphers, who was in China at fRe time of the recent re hellion, visited* Japan. He found he had an impossible task "Before I left China to go to Japan,” he writers, “1 had guessed something of the difficulty there would be In trying to obtain permission to photograph the Mikado and. the royal family. “The was laid before the Mikado personally, asd the secretary’s reply was to the effect that Ms Majesty could not see his way to break the ordinary rule. He had added that If t had. made inquiries beforehand I could have saved myself

the Journey to Japan. To photograph the' Mikado, he said, was absolutely impossible. The pictures that appear of the emperor are reproductions of drawings. “The secretary regretted that I had had the journey for nothing and finished up by asking me to dinner In the friendliest fashion. So sacred, apparently, was the Mikado’s personality that his head did not even appear on either coins or stamps.”