Enoshima 



noisy following, Keio in the southern, and Waseda 

 in the western part of the city. Teams from each 

 have toured the United States, and American col- 

 lege nines have played return matches in Tokyo. 

 Our athletes as a whole show greater strength and 

 skill, the Japanese more speed and agility on their 

 feet. 



Next day we began serious work at Enoshima Picture 

 ("island of pictures"), a bold, rocky, heavily wooded Island 

 promontory connected with the shore by a long sand 

 spit submerged at spring tides. The usual entrance 

 is through a V-shaped gorge up the steep sides of 

 which the little town struggles symmetrically. A 

 pretty inn received us in friendliest fashion, and with 

 much low bowing, of course. The very lively little 

 maid, whom we called O-Cho-San (Miss Butterfly), 

 at once dubbed me "Daibutsu" ("Great Buddha") 

 from my supposed resemblance to the huge and 

 sublimely placid statue which ennobles the neigh- 

 boring park at Kamakura on the mainland. "If I 

 climbed on your back I should be like a chickadee 

 on the back of an oak," she said. 



Enoshima's prime specialty is a lantern made of the 

 dried, inflated skin of a big puffer fish, 1 through which 



candle gleams with pleasing effect. Much in evi- 

 lence also are pictures and figures of Benten, goddess 

 )f beauty, especially devoted to the island, as are 

 :hose of Ebisu, 2 the fisher-god whose name was borne 



1 Spheroides rubripes. 



2 Pronounced " Aybees" the short u as nearly silent as you can make it, 

 like the French final e as in Louvre. A uniform orthography for Japanese words, 



>pted also for the languages of Oceanica, was devised by Professor Chamber- 



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