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representing the 36 Geniuses.
There are 5 chapels. The annual festival
is on the 2nd of May. The flowering cherry trees
are all named. After this we went on to
the Daitokuji. Here again the carving deserves
great praise but every detail is here complete.
No temple is said to have a greater number
of Kakemonos some of great value,
a set of screens that divide room from
room were painted by Kano Tan-yu
& great valued. A sepia drawing of a man
leading a monkey occupies the whole
of a small room and is famous.
Kinkakuji comes next and here again
the gardens and islands with many carp who
come to be fed. A pavilion stands facing
south on the edge of the lake but is not worth
visiting as the lacquer and gilding are
all spoiled. A tree here, a pine, is trained
on bamboo until it represents a Chinese
junk sail and rudder & we had a
long drive and came back rather
tired as the road was rough.
A letter from Mary Peard, they are all
well. Her letter was dated 24 of Sept.
[in margin:]14 Sunday We had breakfast early and so