bird department , where there was" a great collection of finches, 
lovebirds, end paroquets, and the flower department, where dwarfed 
cherry and plum trees were just coming into bloom, and orchids wer 
selling for a wen or so apiece. 
In the afternoon we drove to Eemakure with Okada, Koga, Ken 
Murayama , rnd r small girl called Junco (?) . ,; *e went bad over the 
long road to Yokohama, crowded city streets, and pretty junky-look- 
ing, then turned and drove through real countryside ana little 
villages to Kemakure . First we went to Hachiman Shrine, Shinto, _ 
where the God of War is revered. It seemed a strange place to pick 
to be married in, but we saw a wedding party, and the much beaecked 
bri 
Then we went to the shrine o: r the D; ibutsu, the enormous bronze 
figure of the seated Buddha, eh tremendously impressive in its 
setting of bent tine trees. Bill and little Junco both burned joss 
sticks before the image. Then Okada said that s friend of his had 
a villa behind the shrine, and we went around to admire a little 
jem of s Japanese house, and to drint tea and eat chestmut paste. 
In the evening we went to a dinner given for us by the Japanese 
scientists at Orion, where we had a European meal. I was a little 
dismayed when I went in to find that I was the only woman with about 
twentv men, but pleased when Mrs. Fogs showed up. She sat next to me 
at dinner, but as she knew not one word, of English, we simply smiled 
at each other occasionally, and I admired her delicate prettiness. 
Dr. Yfctsu was there, also Okada, Furoda , and a host of other, in- 
cluding some entomological students from the University. After 
dinner we were shown movies of wild birds in Japan, and a bear 
hunt in Hokkaido. 
When we came back to Hotel, Okada sat around with us, intro- 
duced some photographers to Williams, and about eleven-thirty we 
started out on a other party, this time to see some geisha. We 
didn't realize when we went that it meant another sukiyaki party, 
as we were so well-fed the very thought of food was distasteful, 
but after we had made a pretense of dipping our chopsticks into 
the centra 1 cooling pan, and swallowing a few morsels of beef 
dipped in raw egg, the geisha appeared, and were really very 
charming. We were encoura ged to examine and admire their elabor- 
ate costumes and hairdress. They wore stunning jeweled buckles on 
the little belt that ties the obi, and had various silver charms 
dangling from the obi itself, as well as in their hair. One seemed 
a mere child, and Bill, full of enthusiasm and saki, christened her 
"little almond eyes" - and everybody was very friendly end very 
happy. They danced and sang for us, sat with us, lighting our 
cigarettes ana Douring our drinks, until after two. One curious 
thing about the geisha is the make-up - ghastly white rice powder 
all over the face end upper lip, with the lower lip thick with 
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To our great surprise, the sweet little things came home with 
us, but as it turned out, it was simply a hospitable gesture, and 
they six got in a car and went home eg? in with venturing into the 
hotel - where of course they are not a flowed. 
