Chasing Hiroshige’s Vision of Japan - The New York Times
Wendell Jamieson
Two Japanese women — a mother and a daughter, I suspect — had gone into the other one as I went into mine, and I listened groggily in the near darkness to their mellifluous words and laughter, and occasional tiny splashes, as I sat in the steaming water up to my neck.
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