JAPANESE EXHIBITION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14188, 11 October 1909, Page 6

JAPANESE EXHIBITION.

A oreat Japan-British Exhibition opens at the "Great White City," Shepherd's Bush, London, on May 3, ISIO. This is the first exhibition of Japanoso manufactures and products on any scalo worth speaking of which has ever been held in Europe.

The Japanese seotion of fno exhibits will be divided into 18 groups, relating, among other things, to industries, food products, agriculture, horticulture, mining, and metallurgy, textiles, civil and mechanical engineering, olectrioifcy, transportation, decoration and furnishing, fine arts, armament and social economy. Specimens of the uniforms, armour, and weapons, and the models of tho Japanese men-of-war, are to bo on view. Horticulture, fishing, forestry, and mining, will also be adequately illustrated, because Japan is particularly rich in these departments. Then there will be some exceedingly beautiful exhibits appertaining to the textile industries and costumes. Another novel feature will lie the reproduction of Japanese gardens in the "Great "White City.'* Skilled experts in horticulture and landscape-gardening are to go to England from Japan, and are to create at Earl's Court typical Japanese gardens.