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[[start page]] 8 Young [[red underline]] Iskawa [[/red underline]] and [[red underline]] [[Irray?]] [[/red underline]] there with hired auto. Drove me to Ueno station. [[red underline]] Furuta [[/red underline]] there to see me off. brought me some Natto made from [[red underline]] Soya bean. [[/red underline]] obtained by boiling the bean till soft then let ferment till softer and wrapped in corn-leaves. Is rather tasteless and does not keep more than one day in this hot season. Train goes thru well cultivated fields. green and well cared for. [[red underline]] Reminds of Flanders. Rice [[/red underline]] seems the predominant crop. Some corn planted around rice-fields. Mulberry bush for silk worms. Silk culture important industry here. Also tea bushes. Lotus plants in submerged rice-fields. Also sweet potatoes. Notice [[red underline]] well constructed power transmission [[/red underline]] lines everywhere. Every farm [[end page]] [[start page]] 9 [[strikethrough]] wh [[/strikethrough]]however small and simple - [[red underline]]every hut seems to have electric light. [[red underline]] Strawtatched huts [[line drawing of a one story hut with crested roof and two windows]] [[strikethrough]] wh [[/strikethrough]] with peculiar crested roof made of black tile or of straw. Many [[red underline]] bamboo trees [[/red underline]] of considerable size. [[red underline]] Bamboo bushes [[red underline]] make pretty bunches of pale green in landscape. Now and then a cluster of trees-pines or bamboos - sheltering a farm house or a shrine of [[strikethrough]] wh [[/strikethrough]] worship. Our compartment is 1st class and we are alone. Next is 3d class. Japanese - men and women - [[red underline]] all quiet [[/red underline]] and [[red underline]] orderly sitting [[/red underline]] in huddled position everywhere. The floor strewn with their wooden clogs everywhere. [[red underline]] Men and women all smoking Japanese [[/red underline]] pipes. Some [[red underline]]soldiers in kaki [[/red underline]] and wearing boots. - Why make them wear boots to people [[end page]]
Transcription Notes:
Natto - a soy drink - name checked.