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most wonderful sight is a pine tree cut and trained like a
ship. The whole garden is very beautiful and the lake is
full of carp that came ravenously open-mouthed to the sur-
face when the delighfully sturdy and serious-minded Japa-
nese boy-attendant clapped his hands. Next visited the Im-
perial Palace, which I found not very impressive, though a
screen picture of wild geese and another of plum blossoms were
very fine. The room in which the present Mikado took the oath
to give a constitution and "seek out learning in all the world"
is not shown. In the afternoon visited Art Museum with many
well-carved wooden statues. After this saw the earth mound in
which are the noses and ears of Koreans killed in one of the
early wars. The temple of the 33,333 Kwannon was worth seeing,
and while in the new Hongwanji temple I saw an interesting
Buddhist service. Tried to get some shoes at a shoe store but
No. 6 was their largest! Went to Dr. Gulick's for tea.

October 4th.
After breakfast and some letters struck out with Mr. and Mrs.
Slack, Lt. and Mrs. Morrison and little four-year-old Virginia
and Capt. Buchanan to see the two Hongwanji temples, all in
rikshas. At the first temple little Virginia and I took in the
sights together and the rest of the morning was mostly a frol-
ic with her. She is a delightful little curly-haired four-year-
old and I enjoyed this touch of child-life more than the tem-
ple's beauties. Saw the cables of human hair used in building
the new Hongwanji, and was disappointed in the old one, as its
are is by no means impressive. Next we went to a geisha school
where fifty or a hundred girls from 10 to 16 are in training.