KIOTO

[s. 392] : An important city of Japan, situated in the southwestern part of Hondo, the main island, and 329 miles by railway S. W. of Tokio, 5 miles from the S. end of Lake Biwa, with which It was it is connected by a navigable canal. founded in 723, and until 1868 was the capital of Japan. With its schools, hospitals, lunatic asylum, prisons, dispensary, almshouses, fountains, public parks and gardens, exquisitely beautiful cemeteries, and streets of almost painful cleanline , Kioto is the best arranged and It is noted for best managed city in Japan. its manufactures of crape, bronze goods, and For long time foreigners were jealporcelain. a ously excluded from this sacred city. The town and the vicinity are crowded with objects of interest. The Mikado’s palace covers 26 acres, and is a collection of very fine buildings. Among other objects of interest are the temple of 33,333 images of the Godde of Mercy, and the bust of Buddha, 58 feet high. The climate is temperate. Population (1898) is 353,139. Station of the (1875), with (1902) 5 mi ionaries (three with their wives), 2 women mi ionaries, 15 native workers, 29 outstations, 18 Sabbath schools, 1 boarding school, 1 theological cla , 1 training cla for women nurses, 1 hospital, and an important college known as the Station also of the MES (1898), with Do shisha. 1 mi ionary and his wife. Also station of the PE, with 4 mi ionaries (one with his wife), 2 women mi ionaries, a day school and a boarding Station also of the school. (1900), with 1 mi ionary and his wife. Also station of the PN (1890), with (1903) 1 mi ionary and his wife and 1 woman mi ionary. Also station of the German General Evangelical Mi ionary Society (1900), with 1 mi ionary and his wife. The has also established an agency there (1901). 392