THE WESTERNISING OF, JAPAN.—This study of the family of the Marquis Toshitame Mayeda,. Militairy Attache to the Japanese' Embassy accredited to the Court of Stl James' 'arid the richest peer' in his own country, exemplifies in a remarkable manner the way in which the Land of the Rising Sun; is looking; towards the West. The dowager on the left, the mother of the Marquis, still wears the national and traditional dress. Then' comes " the Marquis his Continental-looking uniform with his purely Occidentally dressed ijiarchioness and their equally Western-clad'children. On .the extreme right is Mr. Taketame .Mayeda, * the, eldest son, also in a Western-seeming uniform.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 289, 6 December 1930, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE WESTERNISING OF, JAPAN.—This study of the family of the Marquis Toshitame Mayeda,. Militairy Attache to the Japanese' Embassy accredited to the Court of Stl James' 'arid the richest peer' in his own country, exemplifies in a remarkable manner the way in which the Land of the Rising Sun; is looking; towards the West. The dowager on the left, the mother of the Marquis, still wears the national and traditional dress. Then' comes " the Marquis his Continental-looking uniform with his purely Occidentally dressed ijiarchioness and their equally Western-clad'children. On .the extreme right is Mr. Taketame .Mayeda, * the, eldest son, also in a Western-seeming uniform.