The Days of a Man 1:1911 



since had occasion to thank him for other generosities, 

 particularly a splendid gift when he took luncheon 

 MoHno- with US at Stanford in 191 6. This consisted of three 

 lyey^li bcautiful " picturc rolls " (reproductions of the origi- 

 nals by the great artist Kano Morinobu), illustrating 

 the life of Tokugawa lyeyasu, and until the Resto- 

 ration in 1868 jealously guarded at Nikko from all 

 eyes except those of the successive shoguns. Now 

 registered amoung the national treasures, they were 

 copied in connection with the celebration of the 

 tercentenary of lyeyasu's death. Baron Shibusawa's 

 connection with the Tokugawa family was, it appears, 

 a very intimate one. I understand, moreover, that 

 the biography of the last shogun, published by him, 

 is a monumental piece of Japanese history. 



The On the 15th of September Count and Countess 



^tXo« Okuma gave a formal luncheon for us. Many interest- 

 ing people were present — among them General Terau- 

 chi, Baron Iwasaki, Mr. T. Watase, a prominent 

 manufacturer and brother of Professor Watase, also 

 businesssecretary of the Japan Peace Society, Mr. Gil- 

 bert Bowles of the Society of Friends, Mr. Miyaoka, 

 correspondent of the Carnegie Endowment, Mr. 

 Juichi Soyeda, a well-known journalist, and Mr. 

 Shiburo Shimada, a Liberal member of Parliament, 

 as well as several most agreeable ladies. My right- 

 hand neighbor, for instance, was the versatile Madame 

 Miyaoka. She explained to me that her name was 

 really "Churchill" (miya, temple; oka, hill), and 

 that while she could not yet vote, she expected to do 

 so before long. 

 Iwasaki Iwasaki, a graduate of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania and head of the shipbuilding firm of Mitsu 



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