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^[[Letter #33]]

Takaoka
June 26/95

Dear Mr. Hecker;
Experience is actually teaching me how to travel in Japan; What to see and how to look at it.
The more closely [[strikethrough]] it [[/strikethrough out]] I follow Japanese customs in ways of travel, food &c, also in places to visit and in seeing things from their point of view the greater my pleasure.
When a real Jap- (not the half europeanized cuss.) wants to have a good time and that occurs whenever he has money enough he hies himself to the country, and the great temples and picturesque little spots in the mountains and along [[strikethrough[] it [[/strikethrough]] the seashore where he always manages to have a gigantic hurrah. Ample opportunities exist and everything goes - no not everything !! Seriousness, care for the next days head or the bank acct. are always barred.  And this was the life of old Japan and this explains their love for the butterfly in their ancient art.  Butterflies they themselves would now be [[scan incomplete]]

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