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CHAPTER XXIII. THE WEDDING OF A PEINCESS. FAR down in the southern province of Higo, at Kumamoto, a fair young maiden named Kiku (Chrysanthemum), usually spoken of as Kiku-hime' (The Princess Chrysanthemum), who had been betrothed to the son of the prince of Echizen, was living in joyful anticipations of being united to her betrothed. She had been told by her friends and by her mother that in the northland she would be homesick ; but her light heart feared nothing, and she looked forward with joy to new scenery, people, and experiences. In company with her parents and maid, and a few ladies and gentlemen in waiting, and their servants, they set out in the springtime of 1857, to travel northward to her future home in Fukui. There she was welcomed and made a guest in one of the many spacious dwellings belonging to the prince within the castle of her future father-in-law. Princess Kiku was a most beautiful lady, of that noble cast of countenance which belongs to the families of high birth and breeding. As every one knows, there are in Japan two types of features : one is that of the " pudding face," which is flat, round, large-featured, and unintellectual-looking, as? which be
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CHAPTER XXIII.<br />
THE WEDDING OF A PEINCESS.<br />
FAR down in the southern province of Higo, at<br />
Kumamoto, a fair young maiden named Kiku<br />
(Chrysanthemum), usually spoken of as Kiku-hime'<br />
(The Princess Chrysanthemum), who had been betrothed<br />
to the son of the prince of Echizen, was<br />
living in joyful anticipations of being<br />
united to her<br />
betrothed. She had been told by her friends and by<br />
her mother that in the northland she would be<br />
homesick ; but her light heart feared nothing, and<br />
she looked forward with joy to new scenery, people,<br />
and experiences.<br />
In company with her parents and maid, and a few<br />
ladies and gentlemen in waiting, and their servants,<br />
they set out in the springtime of 1857, to travel<br />
northward to her future home in Fukui. There she<br />
was welcomed and made a guest in one of the many<br />
spacious dwellings belonging to the prince within<br />
the castle of her future father-in-law.<br />
Princess Kiku was a most beautiful lady, of that<br />
noble cast of countenance which belongs to the<br />
families of high birth and breeding. As every one<br />
knows, there are in Japan two types of features : one<br />
is that of the " pudding face," which is flat, round,<br />
large-featured, and unintellectual-looking,<br />
as?<br />
which be