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CHAPTER XXXIII. A POSTSCRIPT IN SEPTEMBER, 1890. hanashika, as the Japanese would call him, -L who tells this story, enjoyed a call a few weeks ago from a gentleman from Tokyo. On his card plate engraved in Boston I read in English, Asahi Rai. " Can it be possible," I " thought, that here is of my one old Fukui " boys ? Going down into the parlor I shook hands with a fine-looking young man, who immediately said : " Do you not know me ? I am one of your boys whom you taught in Fukui." " Yes, of course I know you, and am glad to see you ; but you write your name in our way family name last ? " " Yes ; we all do it in Japan now, at least most of us." " And, may I ask, what are you doing in America, Asahi bo?" Laughing heartily at my calling him by his nursery name, he replied : " I am a civil engineer, and am here on government business connected with the railroads, for the Department of Communications, of which, as you know, some one of the great Sa-cho-to conibina-
A POSTSCRIPT IN 1890. 383 tion is chief, or minister, for the imperial cabinet changes often. Heretofore, since 1868, the ministers and men in high office have been those who were active in the Revolution of 1868, but now there are younger men educated in Europe or America who are the emperor's advisers, and in the cabinet." "Your words remind me of Professor Koba. Is his widow living yet?" "Oh, yes, in good health; and his son is now the pastor of a large Christian church in Tokyo. He is one of the most active and earnest of our leaders. He was trained at the Doshisha in Kyoto, over which Mr. Neesima was president. When those assassins left Koba's headless trunk in the streets of Kyoto, they imagined that Christianity in Japan was at an end, but they were mistaken. I myself have the great pleasure of being a member of Rev. Mr. Koba's church, and of hearing him preach every Sunday. By the way, Mr. Neesima's loss seems almost irreparable, but we hope God will give us others like him. We have several Fukui lads at the Doshisha in Kyoto." " What has become of all our old friends ? How is the old prince of Echizen?" "Oh, Matsudaira? Alas, he died during the summer, after the emperor had conferred upon him the highest rank a living subject could attain.'* " Indeed ! I feel this as a direct personal loss. Then we shall have no Echizen nobleman sitting among the " princes in the new House of Peers ? " No ; nor among the marquises : for since I left
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CHAPTER XXXIII.<br />
A POSTSCRIPT IN SEPTEMBER, 1890.<br />
hanashika, as the Japanese would call him,<br />
-L who tells this story, enjoyed a call a few weeks<br />
ago from a gentleman from Tokyo. On his card<br />
plate engraved in Boston I read in English, Asahi<br />
Rai.<br />
" Can it be possible," I<br />
"<br />
thought, that here is<br />
of my<br />
one<br />
old Fukui "<br />
boys ? Going down into the<br />
parlor I shook hands with a fine-looking young<br />
man, who immediately said :<br />
" Do you not know me ? I am one of your boys<br />
whom you taught in Fukui."<br />
" Yes, of course I know you, and am glad to see<br />
you ; but you write your name in our way family<br />
name last ? "<br />
" Yes ; we all do it in Japan now, at least most of<br />
us."<br />
" And, may I ask, what are you doing in America,<br />
Asahi bo?"<br />
Laughing heartily at my calling him by his nursery<br />
name, he replied :<br />
" I am a civil engineer, and am here on government<br />
business connected with the railroads, for<br />
the Department of Communications, of which, as<br />
you know, some one of the great Sa-cho-to conibina-
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