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17 the old lady we met said "Japan Day by Day" was one of the books she had been told to read while in Japan. but couldn't get it in english at some library in a club:

Iroad below the University grounds was exactly like a print. the temple roofs rather indistinct across the lotus pond or marsh and in the foreground weeping willow trees, [se.lcrietted] against the gray and a few figures going by.

The sights were too remarkable. Pots of people barefooted and clogs on. In fact the Keyoto boy was barefoot all day. Imagine its like getting used to no gloves.. but it did seem funny in the [sucru]?. All the cars and trucks in fact any wheeled vehicle is compelled by law to have brushes or pieces of rubber being [dcru] outside the hubcaps to keep the water from splashing. Its a wonderful idea. The brush is about a foot by two feet four and all cars have the necssary brackets to attach theirs to in bad weather. But the bycycles were the best. several had three large round open worked wicker baskets filled with roosters and hens. looking very cold and and squashed and the new [hav..p] a said tuile? peddlers in four feet of slush. You see everything behing hauled on the back of bycycles. tires for cars. potted plants, today a [.at] tree that looked awfully high, large plates of glass. all sorts of things. Some bycycles tow a two wheeled contrevauce?. making the bycycle & trailor into a sort of glorified trycycle. Two boys to day, each had a large desk on their on their trailor and the several chair tied on top. As Pete says they toy as much behind as any delivery truck would think of carrying.