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The Hakone district surrounding this picturesque spot is a favorite summer resort of the Japanese whose homes are in the large towns. Yokohama and Tokio até off at the N.E. (right) about fifty and seventy-five miles away. Fuji, the peerless mountain, is some twenty miles from here in the direction in which you are now facing. 
There are hotels, inns and a great many little tea-houses all throughout this charming country region. That pretty girl just coming down over the the rocks is a nesan or waitress at a tea-house nearby - a very good representative of hundreds who earn their living neat-handed attendance on tea-house guests. She is daintily neat, sweet tempered and obliging, and her elaborate courtesy in serving tea and rice cakes shows careful training in good manners. Notice the elegant correctness with which her glossy hair is arranged; sleeping as she does with a wooden support under her neck by way of a pillow, those shining locks may stay in good order three successive days or even longer. Do you see her bare feet and their sandals? The sandals themselves she will doff when she goes indoors, to avoid soiling the floor-mats on which guests sit and refreshments are served. 
You could go under the protecting shelter of that roof up there besides the path and have tea and cakes brought to you as you sit before that thumbling waterfall, with its sparkling veils torn on the rough-piled rocks. Over and over and over again Japanese artists have made drawings of such waterfalls as these. They have never tired of studying the beautiful lines made by falling water or by water that swirls on circling eddies. A large proportion of the Japanese who come here on country excursions take the keenest delight too in studying the graceful outlines of tree branches and their contrast with the sting up-standing masses of the dappled tree-trunks. Not a few of native guests here amuse themselves by writing verses about the place. 
(Sir Edwin Arnold's "Japonica" includes interesting notes about nesans.)
From Notes of Travel, No. 9 copyright, 1904, by Underwood & Underwood. 
Splashing Waters of a Cascade at Yumoto, Japan.
Eaux éclaboussantes d'une cascade à Yumoto, Japan.
Blätichernde Waffer einee haifade in Yumoto, Japan.
Águas salpicantes de uma cascada em Yumoto, Japan.
Plaskande vatten i Yomoto, Japan.
Брызгаюмiя воды водопада Юмато, Японiя.

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Used an "I" as written in stead of an "и" as would normally be used to stay true to the document.