PRINCE KATSURA'S "PET."

Mataura Ensign, 26 December 1913, Page 5

PRINCE KATSURA'S "PET."

SACRIFICE OF HER HAIR. Following the death of Prince Katsura, the ex-Premier, tlie Japanese newspapers publish photographs 01 ™} ss Okoi, described as the "pet" of the statesman, wh<j, as soon as she heard ot the prince's death, ordered her maids to cut off her hair, and having set up a photograph of the prince on an altar offered her treasured tresses in sacrifice. The practice of cutting on the hair by faithful wives is not uncommon in Japan and is synonymous with declaring that they w;ll not again seek husband or lover. Prince Katsura some time before his death expressed the wish that when he died his brain should be removed, as he was of opinion that the brain of a) man who worked as hard as he did would be in interesting acquisition to the Imperial University. The princess instructed the university authority to do this, and the brain was found to weigh 560z, comparing favorably with the weight of the bram of the greatest thinkers of the world, fhe pnnc« s brain was of exactly the same yeight as that of Kant.

The weight of the brain of an average adult male Japanese is about 470z. B march's brain weighed 630z. Many to- i of great intellect have had large brain weight, but the exceptions are numerous.