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shoes before entering the house. A good idea really. [[?]] were
[[?]] a few fruit trees in [[?]] when [[?]] around the [[?]]
and the farmyards always had a rather dreary look.
especially with a few lights. As we went by one farm we
re[[?]] on all the wooden farm implements being [[?]]
under the eaves protected from the weather and [[?]]
showed us the damned place in the brook nearby where the
implements are washed after work each day. We also saw
later in an old picture, a farmer washing his [[?]] feet.

Then we walked through a village, a [[?]] [[?]]. dozens of children
and several couples of little boys who were players of some game.
[[?]] a box at the others box on the ground a trying to make it
[[?]] [[?]] over [[?]] something. As we [[?]] [[?]] [[?]]
[[?]] [[?]] the low land from the river beyond in the flood time.
There was a Korean woman with a child on her back. It was
a perfect picture. She wore a red jacket and [[?]] suede skirt. the
Korean costume and the misty affect behind her was lovely.
The newer bed is very wide and wood to be a great place for
boating and fishing. Sweet as it is [[?]] the Tokyo water supply
there is just a little stream winding to way down [[?]]
the gravel. In some places it would be very easy to wade
across. Even [[?]]. there are buildings a new reservoir & [[?]].
there was one [[?]] boat being poled down the stream.
exactly as a Japanese boat should look. The trees are all so
very Japanese. I can hardly believe they are trees. In the garden
opposite the [[?]] house there was a pine tree being
[[?]] across the gate, and they say its quite a long job, for a
man has to come every day or two to change it a little. Some trees
have tall bamboo posts beside them with strings [[?]] from
the top. Some have the strings tied to a loop as large as the
widest part of the tree. Others have the strings [[?]] to the ground
[[?]] it is to protect the tree from snow in the winter. How it
does it i don't know as the strings are at least three inches
or more apart at the bottom.