KIOTO

or KY-OTO, an {mportant city of Japan, 329 m. from Tokyo. -It was founded in 793, and was from that time until the revolution of 1868 the capital of the Japanese empire. Cone | sequently it contains many interesting buildings, among which are the Mikado’s Palace, a large ma of buildings covering an area of 26 acres; the Do shisha, 2 Christian university under the auspices of the American Board Mi ion; the Imperial University, founded in 1875; the Kitano Tenjin, a temple dedicated to Tenjin Sama, which contains the thirty-six genii of poetry (the usual adornment of Shinto temples); and the San-ju-san-gen-do, the temple of the 3333 images of Kwannon, the godde of mercy, founded in 1132, the grounds of which contain the Daibutsu, or Great Buddha, and a fine art museum. Bleaching and dyeing are succe fully carried on, for K. abounds in clear water, and the city is noted for its manufactures of silk, brocades, embroidery, velvet, porcelain, bronze, and other artistic products. Pop. 1919, 591,305. poet and novelist; b, Bombay; educated at the United Service Coll., Westward Ho, England; made use of his experiences there in his Stalky and Co., a tale of schoolboy life; went to Lahore as subeditor of the Civil and Military Gazette 1882, and remained in India till 1889; subsequently travelled extensively before settling down in England; is a voluminous writer, hardly a year pa ing since the appearance of Plain Tales from the Hills without its volume either of prose or verse; in quick succe ion appeared Soldiers Three, The Story of the Gadsbys, In Black and White, Under the Deodars, Wee Willie Winkie, and The Phantom ’ Rickshaw, and these almost immediately gave Kipling his place among the world’s great short-story writers. Other books that have appeared since are The Light that Failed, 1891; Barrack-room Ballads, 1892; Many Inventions, 1893; The Jungle Book, 1894; The Second Jungle Book, 1896; The Seven Seas, 1896; Captains Courageous, 1897; Puck of Pook’s Hill, 1906; Actions and Reactions, 1909; A| Diversity of Creatures, 1917; and Leitiers of Travel, 1920, Kipling has greatly extended the bounds of literary art by the 4ntroduction of strange experiences and new types of character and of novel forms of presentation; perhaps his chief characteristic is his versatility, his subjects ranging from animals and children to the sophisticated products of modern society, and from native life in India to slum life fn London; he shows an absolute command of style and all its resources. As a poet, his mastery of versification is complete, and few modern poets have so well caught the ballad note. Awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907.