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Yaami Hotel
  Maruyama Park,
    Kyoto, Japan

telephone No, 115.  Kyoto,------------------190
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16 paintings given to the temple centuries ago by Prince Kodan!! 

At Myoshinge in this city yesterday, they made a large sale privately which is causing much talk today.  Coho the buyer was is unknown.  I would liked to have had a chance, but the authorities would not let me.  As a consolation they told me they would soon sell some more of a famous set of Rakans of which I already possess two. The meaning of all these and other doings mystifies me.  The Japs are beyond my understanding -- the more I see of them the less I know of them.

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