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side watching us. Milly and I were astonished to
find how much interest we created.
I fancy few English come this way.
We left at 12 noon for Nagoya. A most interesting
inland city. I would willingly have stayed until
a later train. We saw the castle very completely
and also a little of the town. Bought a cloisonne
11. vase at the factory and saw them making these.
things, the process was most interesting.
The view from the castle reminded one of the
Lombardy plains. Little villages dotted all
about like islands on a lake. The castle
was so injured by the earthquake 1891
that the beams were all strained and it was
closed to the public for a long time. One has to
get a permit from the English Embassy to go there.
We bought a strange piece of old cloisonne
of Fuji and under the snow line are
dragons playing about. We got to Kyoto
at 8:15 p.m.
12 Was not well so did not go out until after
tiffin. In the afternoon we went to a very fine
temple, the altar and brass hangings being the finest we
have yet seen. Also it seemed to have a small cloister
round the [?] house built in such a way
that made a sound every step you took.