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strew rnr.ts (tr.tr mi) and ime mils (fusomr) vere sliding panels . 
Cushions were brought Tpr us to sit on, end the first course #&s 
steaming hot towels, served in little straw baskets, for us to 
wipe our hands on. A Japanese girl, who refused to be amused at , , » 
our awkward attempts to^fee lp Ou^cIvod to a :yfektk4y, prepared tneA^AtH^ 
weei, which was cooked on the table in front of us - thinly sliced 
beef, mushrooms, greens, bamboo SEHiat? shoots, bean curd, leeks, and 
other ungues sable ingredients, lath it we drsnh warm saki from little 
bowls. 
Although we hid had & full dry we still had zest for a wall 
through the Ginza at night, when this thoroughly metropolitan 
Main Street is lined with little stalls like a county fair, each 
man selling his own wares - toys, shoelaces, photograph albums, 
collapsible rubber pillows, crrved bone, curious pieces of dnft- 
wcod, ana medicines that included dried, ground snake. 
February 5. Tokyo. 
Dr. Koge c lied for us early in the morning and we were t?ken 
to the estate of Prince Taka Tsucesa, and shown his aviary. He had 
many species of paroquets, pigeons, and pheasants, all nicely 
housed and many of them nesting. Then the Prince took us to 
Ko Ho Kwan (The Maple Club) a perfectly exquisite Japanese house, 
so delicate end fragile, with its lovely polished woodwork , its 
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fusoma and tatami, that 1 felt like an ox as I scuffed 
along in felt bedroom slippers. Beyond was a garden, with rocks' 
and pines, and below us a view of " " 
:. e citv ol Tokyo. 
The lunch was the formal J- p- .:ese meal, with innumerable courses 
each one consisting of small portions of some hitherto-untested 
food. We had tea, first and la$t, soft-shell turtle soup (With a 
turtle egg in it), raw bream, raw cuttlefish, raw tune, seaweed with 
herring roe, leeks, two more kinds of seaweed, a chicken stew witn 
bamboo, mushroom, and beencurd, broiled cod with Vegetables, tempura 
(shrimps fried in batter), a stew of shrimps bamboo, peas, ana 
rooms, soup made of angier lish and eel, rice, pickled radish and 
cabbage, and finally enormous strawberries end chestnut paste. 
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this, we were still able to make our wry baci to 
Mr 
the Zoo, where we ran into two American women, a 
Mrs. Tillman Johnson, who strangely enough used to be Lueiia 
llolbrocl: and 
Stephen f s room-mate . 
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Back to the Hotel, just in time to be picked up by Lillian 
Grosvenor Coviile, who took us out to her charming house for tea. 
Later we had a small dinner at the Hotel, we e met by 
Muriyame, and went for a walk in the Ginza. 
February 6. Tokyo. 
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, Mrs. Holbrook -ad Mrs. Johnson c lied for us at the 
took us shppping. We went first to the Obi Market, 
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hotel and tool: us snpppmg. •■ e went urtb wuj. 
where I bought a gorgeous bi as ceremonial kimona for 15 yen, 
an obi, four yards of sill* brocade, for 10 yen. i-rom there w 
went to Mltsukoshi, the big department store, the most luxurious 
store I have ever seen. Se.ks-Fifth Avenue can't hole; a cardie to 
its m; rbie-peneleed walls or beautiful displays. We had lunch 
on the 7th floor in the French Restaurant, end walked through the 
