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Feb-ruary $ 
Had difficulty getting Bill up in time for the train - passed 
him the aspirin and celled him "little almond-eye's" - which he 
certainly was. However, we managed to get to the station by nine, 
after being up most of the night, end caught the very comfortable 
train to Kyoto. 
All day long we sat with our noses plastered sgsinst the 
rain-spl; shed window-pane. Part of the time the train ran along the 
coast, where we had the sea with its fishing boats on one side of 
us, and the misty mountains on the other. It was too cloudy to 
see Fuji, though' we were at one time very near it. We did see plum- 
blossoms in the rain, and oranges, rice fields for mile after mile, 
gay paper umbrellas (what a feat it must be to ride a bicycle with 
get as on one's feet and an parasol in one hand! ) , and fields of 
tea bushes, shaped and trimmed as neatly as so many box hedges. 
At four in the afternoon we reached Kyoto, and made for the 
Mivsko Hotel. We were mildly surprised that evening to find the 
dining-room on the fourth floor, but simply amazed to look out of 
the window and find a lovely Japanese garden, water falls ana all. 
The hotel is built smacl up against the mountain side, and the 
garden is xiEwsstrfrssm the fourth floor. 
on a level with 
In the evening we tool a taxi down to Shinmozen, the tourist 
shopping street, lined with fascinating little shops selling silk, 
Damascene, lacauer, porcelain, prints, cloisonne, - all the wares 
and crafts of Japan. Bill went in heavily for sill shirts, and 
blew himself to a stunning kimono of ribbed navy blue silk. 
February 8 -'--Kyoto. . ;• "' 1 
Dr. Komai, zoologist of the Imperial University, called on 
us at ten? thirty. To my great delight he brought his wife with 
him, and she spoke beautiful English, and we became great friends. 
She is the only Japanese woman I met who knew any English at ail, 
end it was lots of fun to have a little feminine conversation, after 
all the stag pities I had been to. We went to the Zoo, then to 
the University. The Zoo is not as attractive es Tokyo, but very 
good, with many interesting things, such as black swans nesting, 
breeding hippos, a record of fifty lion cubs born, a cage with 
three Japanese bears end one lion, all very tame. Trie Director, 
Mr. Nagato, spoke practically no English, but was very affable. 
The Komai* tool; us to their home (foreign style) for lunch, 
and we had a delicious meal. Meat and various vegetables were 
artistically arranged in a Korean charcoal burner which was set on 
the table, end we ate Quantities of good "stew" with separate bowls 
of rice. Mrs. Komai had a pretty garden, with oranges on a tree, 
red camellias in bloom, and tulips and other spring bulbs coming 
up. 
After lunch Mrs. K. took us to see some of Kyoto's famous 
temples. We sew the Buddhist temple of Gingaku.ji, the Silver 
Pavilion, where a number of old paintings ere on exhibition, a 
smell shrine contianing an image of the Emperor whose estate it 
once was, and saw the original ceremonial tea room, four and a 
