Mr. W. Remarked
After The Conversation, Which Was In Japanese, That He Thought I
Should Have To "Look Sharp After
Money matters" - a painful
prospect, as I have never been able to manage anybody in my life,
and shall surely
Have no control over this clever, cunning Japanese
youth, who on most points will be able to deceive me as he pleases.
On returning here I found that Lady Parkes had made most of the
necessary preparations for me, and that they include two light
baskets with covers of oiled paper, a travelling bed or stretcher,
a folding-chair, and an india-rubber bath, all which she considers
as necessaries for a person in feeble health on a journey of such
long duration. This week has been spent in making acquaintances in
Tokiyo, seeing some characteristic sights, and in trying to get
light on my tour; but little seems known by foreigners of northern
Japan, and a Government department, on being applied to, returned
an itinerary, leaving out 140 miles of the route that I dream of
taking, on the ground of "insufficient information," on which Sir
Harry cheerily remarked, "You will have to get your information as
you go along, and that will be all the more interesting." Ah! but
how? I. L. B.
LETTER V
Kwan-non Temple - Uniformity of Temple Architecture - A Kuruma
Expedition - A Perpetual Festival - The Ni-o - The Limbo of Vanity -
Heathen Prayers - Binzuru - A Group of Devils - Archery Galleries - New
Japan - An Elegante.
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