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of $4,000 inhabitants and the center
of a considerable manufacturing and
agricultural district. Here We were
met and welcomed by the vice-mayor
! Mr.. T. Mizuno, and the president Oh
the chamber OF commerce, Mr.. T. Su
guyana. A sightseeing trip through
the interesting streets of the busting
town, and to some fine old temples
and a commanding hill, was followed
+ by visits to tea manufactures. where
the tea leaves are prepared for the
great export business of which Shid
). zuoka Is the center. This district pro-
duees almost half the tea exported
/ from Japan, according to the figures
furnished us. ..
Monday, April 81, was spent at Ma.
goya. We arrived at this large city
] of 100000 people early in the even
! ing. The next day and night were
spent there At Nagoya one of the
| principal centers of interest is the
great pottery OF Morimnra & Co.. one
of the largest In Japan. employing
about 5000 operatives Here is made
some of the finest pottery in Japan,
but the plant in general Is devoted to
! turning out the more popular priced
product It will interest Hawaii peo-
pie to know that this noted pottery is
represented in the islands by the firm
of W. W.. Dimond & Co., Ltd. The
general manager, Mr.. Y Mural, met
us and we at once. found mutual ac-
! quaintances, for he has often been in
Honolulu. A golf enthusiast. he
praised the Oahu Country Club lings,
and was Immediately challenged to n
game on his next yisi. by Mr. Mott
Smith. -.
Inspect Art Shops.
A brief Inspection was made of the
cloisonne shops and stlow.rooms CT
j. Ando, one of the leaders in Japan
In this picturesque art. We also WIS.,
tied the Ito department stule, one OF
the vivid illustrations of the progress
Of the New Japan. Here one OF the
managers, Kubota, who, under the
pen-name of sKinsen, is q famous
artist with the brush and ink, delight
ed several of the party by drawing
on the fly-leaves of photograph al
buns some of his original and strfk-
ing pictures.
At the railway station To bid us
farewell was the mayor, Baron Saka.
motto, also member of the house of
peers. One of the most interesting
photographs taken on the entire trip
shows the mayor and Miss Helene
Westervelt, young daughter Of n. E.
Westervelt. as she leaned from the
car window and the mayor stood on
the platform
We left Nagoya shortly after s
O'clock on Tuesday morning and an
all-day ride with a three-hoHr stop
at the ancient and historic town Of
Nara. brought us to Kyoto shortly
after o'clock on the same afternoon.
Nara is famous in Japan for its old
Buddhist temples and to all visitors
because of the multitudes OF tame
deer that wander unconcernedly|
through the town and surrounding
fields. The presence of the deer Is
said to be due to the Buddhist es.
TEEN of those who hEve attained far
enough in the peculiar doctrines of the
sect to be so gentle and kind that
the deer will not flee from them. Att
Nara the deer are as tame as cows
and considerably more familiar They
are used to being fed a kind of oaten
cake sold everywhere In the town by
women who line the streets with their
booths or baskets. The deer insist on
being fed and after the visitor hasl
purchased the cakes he has no diff |
Guilty in collecting around him a herd
Of any desired dimensions, j
1t was with real regret that the Ha-
waii party hurried through this quiet,
beautiful town. Though it is the mec-1
ca of thousands of tourists and more1
thousands Of pilgrims, crowded most
of the year, it has managed to pre-
serve somehow. a serene and restfuI |
atmosphere, the natural surroundings
are charming and often noble, and the1
visitor inclined to dreams and con-
temptation may indulge to his or her
hearts content in some of the many
beautiful shady walks around the re-
yered relics of wonderful religious
past. /
But time pressed and our train was
due. We hurried through a splendidl
series Of temples, cast a hasty
glimpse at the largest image of Bud /
dha in all Japan CSC feet high and
housed in tremendous temple) and |
raced to the station. !
2, Kyoto was reached before dusk anu !
We had our first glimpse of the for
ner capital of the empire The
glimpse, however, was but floating
and mostly of back streets, as We
drove 10 our hotel, the Kyoto. by the
shortest possible route. In Japan the
short cuts lead through a multitude
of alleys and queer, narrow streets /
that are always lined with little shops
and staring people. Even in tourist
haunted Kyoto the foreigner seems
still novelty
Hunt for Bargains.
The itinerary called for four full
days in Kyotc, and was changed two
three fipnnc fn hlSD