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etc., one patch cotton. Much irrigation. Kamakura to [begin crossed out] farmers [end crossed out] famous temple.
Beautiful approach. Great Diabutsu. Marvelously impressive for such simple outlines.
Tiffin with Mez and Sliechar; Capt. Beall of Milledgeville, Ga. [crossed out] courting wife [end crossed out] story about Gen.
Brooke's Dog: "only thing ever came from Porto Rico worth a d----n." [crossed out] Buchanan and
Schulte and woman tumble downer. Letters (Englishman, Japanese, soldiers; school
children, town and country). [end crossed out]

Sept. 11th
Breakfast. Off for Tokyo. Tennessee woman. Tokyo the real thing at last. Great ride
riksha past Imperial Grounds to near park. Met Japanese college boy. Temple
conducted by, priests, took off shoes, Drank sake! Souvenirs. Ohara offers services.
Visit [crossed out] Asakersa Kwamon [end crossed out] Akasaka Ku Kwannon, motley crowd; incense; hand-clapping worshippers, idol rubbed
in two. Idol with toys. Anti-American speaker? Stepped on bridge sacred to Emperor---
by gum! Great day!

Sept. 12th.
Off 7 a.m. for Nikko, but Japanese school children, all sizes already on streets
with book sacks. Saw farming en route. Nikko. Visited tomb Ieyasu, going by way of
magnificent avenue of cryptomerias 200 feet high and so beautiful as to be alone worth
coming all the way to see. Gorgeous temple and most impressive tomb, surroundings
considered, of any man on earth, I should think. Napoleon not excepted.
At dinner met A. Kuster of Switzerland and planned walk to Chumenzi to-morrow.

Sept. 13th.
Raining, so abandoned walk to Chumenzi and went with Kuster to see Ieyasu temple and
mausoleum; well worth a second visit. Saw Koshin and sacred dance I missed
yesterday. Bought souvenirs in temples and at shops. At tiffin our dainty Japanese
waitress merry, but not loud. Afternoon to Gammon-go-fuchi. Japanese huts on way
very interesting- Saw blacksmith sitting down to anvil and workers with straw for overcoats--
like broomstraw. Japanese school-children, boys in quaint, Dutch-like bloomers and caps,
and both boys and girls with colored oil-paper umbrellas. A 17-year-old boy showed