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[[letterhead]]
YAAMI HOTEL,
MARUYAMA PARK,
KYOTO, JAPAN.
TELEPHONE No. 115,

Kyoto [[/letterhead]] Nov 4th [[preprinted]] 190[[/preprinted]]9

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old scenes and encouraged by ancient traditions which still cluster around Maruyama hill.  During [[strikethrough]] my [[/strikethrough]] the first four days in Kioto of my present trip, I patronized a modernized hotel - the food was good, the hotel clean, the service perfect, but I could not tell whether I was in Singapore, Shanghai or Kioto - modern improvements, so called, in the Far Eastern hotel are all factory-made and sold in portions to suit.  The old Yaami as it stands today is changed only by destructive fire and honorable use, [[strikethrough]] but [[/strikethrough]] and while in size it is only a shadow of its former self, the shadow or mere shell is still truly Old Japan.  And its the old call that brought me here.  The food however, is so poor, I may be starved out of this ancient place, back

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