Italy's modern painting and Sculpture are well represented in the Palace
of Fine Arts, and her industrial and commercial exhibits are in the
other palaces.

Japan.--Japan has chosen her temple and palace gardens as the types to
represent her at the Exposition. (p. 169.) She dug up the Mikado's
private garden at the end of the sacred Red Bridge in Nikko, trees,
shrine, rocks, greensward and soil, and set it down again on the
Exposition grounds. So doing, she has shown the Western world a lesson
in the beauty of simplicity. The central building in this charming
garden is a copy, enlarged, of the Golden Pavilion of the Roku-on-ji
Temple in the city of Nara. It is of plain wood and lacquer, with
interior walls and ceiling entirely covered with gold leaf. The office
building joined to the temple was suggested by the shrine of the ancient
castle of Fushimi. The exhibit building north of this temple houses a
complete and remarkably beautiful fac-simile of the famous temple at
Nikko, one of the finest in Japan. The Mikado's private collection of
Japanese art, never before opened to the public, even in Japan, is
placed in the Japanese section of the Fine Arts Palace. The paintings,
scrolls, porcelain, satsuma ware, Sculptures and metal work shown in
this very noteworthy exhibit were collected by the late Emperor
Mutsuhito.

One of the tea houses is an exhibit of the Central Tea Traders'
Association, the other one by the Formosan Government. The striking
features of the gardens, beside the stream and the lakelet, are the
dwarfed conifers, priceless trees. Two of them are the products of ten
centuries of systematic pinching back. With them are three sago palms,
five hundred years old. Scattered throughout the gardens are stone