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[[note in top margin]] [[strikethrough]] stands now on [[/strikethrough]]
Lies now on our chinese buffet. 
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[[red underline]] it is a real antique sword [[/red underline]] may be 300 years old [[strikethrough]] After [[/strikethrough]] Lunch - mostly english women and their children and mostly [[red underline]] people from China [[/red underline]] on a summer vacation. We walked to another shrine the shrine of the Lake.
Big barns to [[strikethrough]] accomods [[/strikethrough]] entirely bare inside only roof and shelter to accomodate [[red underline]] numerous pilgrims who there spread their mat and sleep. [[/red underline]] Then went to take tea in a japanese hotel where we were served once more with many bows "on all fours". Made portrait of the Ne-sun who served us. Asked to [[red underline]] [[Irray?]] [[/red underline]] to see the bath-room. Ne-san says it is occupied but occupants do not object. I hear considerable laughter. Ne-san
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goes with us. to show bath room. A small room very clean. With square unpainted wooden tub in which sits one of a party of [[red underline]] four Tokio-Law-Students [[/red underline]] All laughing much 
the others are outside the tub, rubbing and splashing water over themselves with wooden ladles. [[red underline]] Ne-san [[/red underline]] seems [[red underline]] absolutely indifferent [[/red underline]] to sight of these four [[red underline]] entirely naked men. [[/red underline]] Towards evening we march back. I in the chair, then later on I [[strikethrough]] wal [[/strikethrough]] leave chair for short cuts. but the latter are now more difficult. Caught in rain near a Chaya. Rains more and more Rain falls in sheets. Waterfalls become coffee colored now 
People come in dripping wet. Party of [[red underline]] grumbling [[/red underline]] [strikethrough] ameri [/strikethrough]