Hirosaki Is A Castle Town Of Some Importance, 3.5 Ri From Here, And
Its Ex-Daimiyo Supports A High-Class School Or College There, Which
Has Had Two Americans Successively For Its Headmasters.
These
gentlemen must have been very consistent in Christian living as
well as energetic in Christian teaching, for under their auspices
thirty young men have embraced Christianity.
As all of these are
well educated, and several are nearly ready to pass as teachers
into Government employment, their acceptance of the "new way" may
have an important bearing on the future of this region.
I. L. B.
LETTER XXXI
A Travelling Curiosity - Rude Dwellings - Primitive Simplicity - The
Public Bath-house.
KUROISHI.
Yesterday was beautiful, and, dispensing for the first time with
Ito's attendance, I took a kuruma for the day, and had a very
pleasant excursion into a cul de sac in the mountains. The one
drawback was the infamous road, which compelled me either to walk
or be mercilessly jolted. The runner was a nice, kind, merry
creature, quite delighted, Ito said, to have a chance of carrying
so great a sight as a foreigner into a district in which no
foreigner has even been seen. In the absolute security of Japanese
travelling, which I have fully realised for a long time, I look
back upon my fears at Kasukabe with a feeling of self-contempt.
The scenery, which was extremely pretty, gained everything from
sunlight and colour - wonderful shades of cobalt and indigo, green
blues and blue greens, and flashes of white foam in unsuspected
rifts.
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