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Title: Letters from the Far East
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Evans, Alice (Pickford), Mrs., 1868- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Boston (etc.) The Judson press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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implements of war. The other temple, the Hase-dera, contains a greatimage of the goddess of mercy. This is behind foldingdoors, and can only be seen indistinctly by the light ofa few candles, which the priest moves up and down. 28 LETTERS FROM THE FAR EAST It is made of brown lacquer, gilded over, and is thirtyfeet high. The Diabutsu, or big image of Buddha, for whichKamakura is specially noted, we visited last. This huge bronze image is forty-nine feet and seveninches high, and ninety-seven feet in circumference.The face is over eight feet long, and the eye nearlyfour feet long. The circumference of the thumbsis three feet. It is hollow inside, and one can enter,going up nearly to the neck. In the head is a smallshrine. When we reached the train, rain began to fall; andby the time we alighted from the trolley in Yokohama,it was descending in torrents. We climbed the muddy,slippery hill leading to the hotel, the rain running fromour umbrellas into our shoes. ■;BBB;HII;HB River Scene
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River Boats LETTER NO. VI ON the twenty-second of October we got our firstview of Fujiyama, the sacred mountain ofJapan. We had tried many times to see it; but it hadbeen hidden behind banks of clouds. This was not analtogether clear view of it, for clouds were at the base;but the snow-capped summit rose above, showing clearagainst the sky. The following day we visited the Bluff Gardens.There were not many flowers in bloom at this seasonof the year, only a few cosmos; but the lawns andshrubbery were beautifully kept. A company of schoolgirls, of about high-school age,were enjoying their recess in the gardens while wewere there. How they did run and chase each otherand frolic. We pointed to our camera and asked themif we might take their pictures; they nodded and thenposed very prettily for us. When we had finished,they laughed and clapped their hands, seeming pleasedat what we had done; then they called Good-by andscampered away. We enjoyed two blissful days of sunshine, then camea da

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