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Show 5 instruct e and pleasurable. One morning we were delighted to receive message from Mr. T. Mor f the Maru-Toshi mill, Takaoka-mura 'nmkugun county, not a great distance from Kachi town, requesting tha ve drive to his establishment for luncheon. The Maru -Toshi mill is locall nmul for the manufacture of mulberry bark e used for covering th latticed windows of Japanese houses the paper being made about 24 by 6 inches in size 5o that many of the small oblong openings may be paste overwith one sheet. he window paper is removed from the delicate woode frames ever, ry spnng so the }apdmu housewife knows nothing of f th burdensome task of w glass windows. The village of Takaoka, wher the Mary u-Toshi mill iss xuuua lies in a most remote and primitive par of Shikoku Island and can be reached only through narrow, almost impassable, lanes, the route being bordered with cultivated fields operation, but Mr. Morisawa and his associates were most hospm\bb. wewere taken to the upper story of the house where the low table was lade with all manner of quaint dishes and delicacies, many of which were ne to me, as our host lives in a part of Japan where customs and tradition have met with few changes in hundreds of years. The dining room wa enclosed on all sides by sliding paper windows, two of which were lef open so that the changing landscape might be seen, for Shikoku Island i charming in the springtime and the next day was to be the first of April Aswesat he low teak-woo table, scarcely ten inches from the floor T was delighted with the St s strangely ornamente cakes, slices of raw fish, soft spongy confectiotions covered with pink cocoanu nd wrapped in dark green leaves, rice-balls imbedded in sca-weed, an all manner of pungent sauces, many of the edibles being totally new t me. After luncheon with all its formalities completed, we walked throug overgrown paths, along the streams, with dozens of little chubby-fac Digitalimage© 2004 Marriott Library, University of Utah. All ights reserved |