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silk Kakemono, a photograph of which hangs in his private exhibition room.  Mr. Ichihara the head of the Kioto college, a Yale graduate, and others such as they.  All these wear Japanese clothes are Japanese at heart, revere Japanese traditions and possess naturally and gracefully instincts ^[[for]] the poetry, the chivalry the old time refinements of Japan of our dreams.  They are working to arrest the degradation of their people and to encourage a restoration of old time dress, an appreciation of early art, poetry, and various ceremonies which are quite as well adapted to modern Japan as they were before western teachings caused a state of things entirely un-Japanese to prevail. 
Of the women much might be said but as I have seen so little of real family life, of home privacy, my