is made. Rather large crockery bowls ere used. They are clerned with 
a sort of bamboo whisk, and wiped with a green silk furoshiki, held 
and folded in a certain specified way. A bit of powdered green tea 
is put in the bowl with a long-handled wooden spoon, then water added 
from the steaming kettle in the middle of the floor, with a long- 
handled wooden dipper. The cup is passed to the guest of honor, 
who first takes a bite of cake, then drinks the tec in three end a 
half sups, turns the bowl a qurrter of the w?- y arouna, and passes it 
back. 
We tnen went to see a Noh play, the story of a young prince 
escaping from his kingdom, and the disguise he undergoes in order to 
pass the frontier. The theatre consisted of boxes that held four 
cushions, with a brazier in the center, where one may make tea or 
smoke cigarettes as trie play goes on. There was also a gallery, where 
chairs he d been placed for us. The stage is in the front, right-hand 
corner of the theatre, and so highly polished it reflected the stiff 
brocaded costumes of the actors. The orchestra and chorus sat on the 
stage, the orchestra consisting of three drums and a flute. The words 
which are old Japanese, as incomprehensible to the rest of the audience 
as to us, are sung in a rather impressive chant, and ail the gestures 
are stiff and conventionalized. It was a most interesting after- 
noon, making a picture of coior that I mall never forget. 
Then Dr. Kawamura said he wanted us to see one more temple, and 
we climbed a long hixl, and many flights of stairs, to Kiyomyzu, which 
was beautiful in the sunset. Lanterns were lighted, priests praying 
silently in the dim interior, and the old buildings, with their ancient 
cedar-b^rk roofs, rounded at the eaves, end moss-grown, indescribably 
lovely. Neayby was the pagoda of Easy Birth, where women pray, and 
far below us the city with mountains beyond. 
February 12 - Kobe. 
We caught a train at nine o 1 clock, that brought us to Kobe ebout 
ten-thirty. We were met by Nakato, the animal dealer, who took us 
first to his little shop in* town, and then out to his house and farm. 
His father was the first dealer to import foreign animals into Japan, 
and dealt with the Hagenbecks forty years ago. Most of his stock just 
now is birds, and he is raising Manchuria n cranes from one pair that he 
has had for 29 ye*rs. He feeds them Japanese snails ?, to make the 
babies' 1 . He also raises red, yellow and blue macaws, turquoise parra- 
keets, and all sorts of other parrakeets. The Nakato sons took us 
to Kikusui for sukiyaki that noon. It is* a famous tea house, with 
each room different*, xome representing fisher huts, one a geisha 
room, one decorated with cherry, another with bamboo, and so on. They 
have a huge collection of old Japanese armor. And there was a nice 
garden, with a little stream and stone bridges across it. Because we 
were going away, we ate in the room that represented a boat. A 
huge sail covered one end of the room, and a little porch the t 
projected out into the garden from our room was shaped like the prow 
of a ship. 
In the afternoon we saw the Kobe Zoo, which is small, and chief- 
ly interesting for the way in which it is built on a mountain side. 
It is really a three-story Zoo, and long flights of steps lead from 
one section* to another. Here we were photographed with an Indignant 
crane that was removed from its paddock for pictorial purposes. 
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