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On our way back to Oseka, we stopped to call on Mr ~ Okada ,.who 
has a collection of birds. There were numerous species oi lovebirds 
and parrakeets, including a new chocolate-brown budgerigar, which ne 
had just succeeded in breeding. He had finshes ma pheasants, including 
the Mikado pheasant, and one of his tinamous had just laid an egg- 
He were told that the first cobalt budgerigar soxa in Japan lor 6,0LU 
yen, and the first white for 10,000 yen 
Okads is the largest saki brevrer in Japan, and we saw the brewery, 
where saki was in all stages, from freshly-boiled rice t 0> kegs oi the 
finished drink. It is stored, incidentally, in cryptomeria barrels, 
the wood of which gives it that distinctive flavor. 
Okada had a Japanese house and a foreign house, with a little 
rock garden between the two. We were invited into the foreign house, 
where we had tea with chestnut prste cakes, and then coffee. His ten- 
year old son was introduced to us as an entomo ogist, and Bill protista 
to exchange beetles with him. We saw some of the lad's collection, 
well mounted and well labelled. 
Finally we got back to Osaka, and had a brief visit with the 
circus. The* frrme work was of bamboo poles tied together, and covered 
with a high-pitched brown canvas. The stsge was in the middle of the 
tent; one half was for the audience, the other for the performers' 
dressing rooms. The stage had various curtains and back drops, like a 
vaudeville stage, and indeed the performance, what we saw ot it, was 
like a slow vaudeville show. We saw a double trap act, a dance, and 
a man who stood on his head, on a trapeze 35 feet in the air. We met 
Mr. .Ariti, who would be taken for a circus manager anywhere, clad in 
a heavy black: brocaded silk kimono, with a gold watch chain ana a 
couple* of hunks of jade across his bosom. We were served coffee, and 
the inescapable photographer turned up to make a picture of us. 
T - e audience was more interesting than the show. They sat on 
mats, shoeless, on a high wooden platform that sloped up toward the 
back of the tent, and gasped ana applauded at the proper spots. 
We got bach to the hotel about seven, and had quite a dinner 
party, having invited the Komais, Nagato, Ka?/amura, and Mrs. Osorio 
to have dinner with us. 
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lie had planned to go back to the Zoo this morning, but as it 
was raining we wrote letters until 11.30, Then Dr. Kawaamra called 
for us, and was joined by his son and wife (who brought me a box of 
Japanese chocolates) . Wflm: 1 ^V'''- ; -^l^ hM 
To-day is Foundation Day, a national holiday celebrating the 
2597 years since the birth of the Empire. It is also New Year's Day 
by the old calendar, and hen-e quite a day. The Kawamuras took us 
to Hyotam, a charming little tea house, for lunch, where we sat and 
admired the garden just outside the shoji, and ate nine courses, in- 
cluding shoots of Eauisetum, sagittaria , tai or bream, turtle soup, 
crab, tiny trout no bigger than your little finger, fried crisp, 
big trout' baked on a bed of salt and pine needles, quail, duck, 
lily bulbs, crestnut, radish leaves, bamboo and melon pickle, white 
bait, fish ovaries, and rice. 
After lunch, the .ostess showed us how the ceremonial tea 
