Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1902-11-19
Another Letter from Japan.
Ga Tunkye, Tokyo,
Oct IL, 1902.

Oh lunkye, TOKYO,
Oct II, 1902.
My dear friend: was very glad
indeed to get your letter, and to be
assured of your loving thought. |
wish | could have long chat with
you about all the places and curious
things | have seen in this strange
land. If you do not leave the old
home for good, may be l will have
that pleasure, and I will look forward
to it any way.
| certainly wish you were able to
carry out your wish to help IN the
missionary field. for the bishops here
are especially pressed for workers,
and for women especially.
There are several In this diocese in
such poor health that | fear they
Will soon have to give up the work.
This climate is very trying. besides
the other hard features of the work
in the interior places. In Tokyo the
living is as agreeble IS in most towns
at home, the mission furnishes all
with comfortable houses, and there is
plenty offoreign society, and one meets
many agreeable people, both residents
and tourists; and l shall look back
upon my sojoarn here with much
pleasure. Ii will soon be time to
gather up my "trsps" for leaving, as
have engaged passage OF the DOric
sailing November 10. l want to
spend little time in California, and
get home in time for Christmas, if |
am blessed with as favorable a trip
as | had coming out. +. has extend
ed her trip as far as Shanghai which
she was to reach today, aud will have
visit of ten days there with friends
of ours in the missionary work. A
friend of ours from Baltimore ON a
tour of the world stopped some time
in japan, and when she went on to
China, Z. took advantage of the op-
portunity, to accept an invitation to
Shanghai. I did not go because
will have enough travelling when /
start home, and | am we'll satisfied
here with A. He continues the work
he had in the spring,and seems quite
we'll though he is so thin, he does
not look strong; but while We we're
travelling he took long walks over the
mountains, aud was benefited by the
change, and his long holiday. We
were absent from Tokyo for two
months and took in the most impor-
tant places, spent two weeks in
Hanayawa on the west coast where
A. lived for two years, and his good
friends there entertained us delight
fully. There was much to be seen,
it is the seat of the Kutani china
mandatory, also of habutai silk, and
line lacquer ware, and has many
old curio shops. But the place for
shops is Kyoto, We visited the Clois-
onne and inlaid medal ware shops,
and SAW them making their beanti
full fcreations. The embroideries are
as wonderful as anything of the kind
can be, are done on the tall screens
with which the Japanese decorate
their houses instead of pictures, and
represent landscapes &c as perfectly
as painting, every part being in
embroidery even the ocean and
clouds.
One gorgeous one represented u
stream dashing over rocks, and on
each side a mass of maple bushes in
their lovely shades of red against the
blue sky. This was 81 800 and was
the work of several men for more
than year. There were others
about the same price. and they were
really cheap.
Kyoto is full of fine old temples
and the castle of the old shoguns i:
u wonder of art, deliberately decorat.
ed with carvings and painted screen
walls, still bright and beautiful, tho
several hundred years old. This and
the old Imperial palace are not occu.
pied now, but are shown free to visit.
ors with permits, but the palace is q
very plain affair compared with the
residence of the shoguns who seem
to have had everything at their dis
posal.
| We saw some other places in the
south, then went north to hippo the
most beautifully situated place in
i Japan. 1t is far up in the noun