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THE WONDERFUL CITY OF TOKIO.
a low table upon which rested a manuscript book and a piece
of wood, used by him to emphasize certain portions of his
narrative. He was dressed in a cotton kimono (long coat)
covered with a fine geometrical pattern, and he held a fan in
his right hand.
Upon seeing the visitors he bowed profoundly, and, when
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they were seated upon the matted floor, he poured out a cup of
tea from a pot resting on a little hibachi (portable furnace).
After drinking, to clear his voice, he rapped on the table, in
order to command silence, and said:
" The Land of the Rising Sun has produced a hundred
thousand heroes who have left behind them a cloud of fragrant
memories. Of all these, none was greater than Kusunoke