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opinions are necessarily based upon what I have seen elsewhere - i.e. in the hotels, on the trains, in the streets, shops, tea houses, etc. - and of course one rarely sees the real beauty under such conditions.  Foreign influence seems to have touched them less than the man - still in Nagasaka, Kobe, Osaka, and treaty ports the women seem much more illmannered than at Kioto, Otsu, beautiful Nara, Yamada and other interior towns.  Nothing could have been more characteristic, exquisite and aesthetic than the Chanoya - (old time tea ceremony) performed for me by the sixteen year old daughter of the leading citizen of Yamada.  The room specially built for the purpose, the artistic implements