[Illustration: _At the Emperor’s Wish_]
[Illustration: She was wonderfully beautiful.]
[Illustration:
_At the Emperor’s Wish_
_A Tale of the New Japan_
_By
Oscar King Davis_
_D. Appleton and Company_
_New York_
_1905_]
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COPYRIGHT, 1905, BY
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
_Published October, 1905_]
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TO THE REAL SOICHIS
_Who, by tens and hundreds of thousands, from all the
corners of Dai Nippon, great and small, shizoku
and heimin, with a simplicity, a courage and a
faith that may well stand as models for all
the world, and a passion of loyalty passing
occidental understanding, await
only the occasion to demonstrate
their glad, unselfish
readiness to meet the
Emperor’s Wish_