November 5, 1917 A perfect day dawned bright and with a bracing breeze. I took a stroll on the bluff, where most of the European and Americans reside. A common ornamental plant seen here was a new one to me. It is an umbelifer with a central raremose of small white flowers. The foliage is the attractive feature ______leaves being large ______ incised affairs of very dark green glossy color. The shrubs looks like the Alaskan Devils Club which is an umbelifer, and no doubt a near relative. In the afternoon, I took the electric railway to Tokyo and visited Hibiya Park to see the chrysanthemums, but they were a disappointment. Much of the park is a lawn, and used as a playground for children from 4 to 8 years old. They were chiefly boys in the common polka dot kimono's. Their games were American baseball chiefly and the flying of toy airplanes operated by a stern propeller, wound up by a rubber band, and tossed into the air to sail whither they wish. Japanese children are a gay lot, and thoroughly imbued by the spirit of games and play just as European children are. The similarity of these young Japanese to Europeans is closer than among adults, when a certain dignified bearing and set ceremonial attitude makes the Japanese a very different appearing lot from Europeans. I took snaps of women and children in the park and these victims usually laughed when caught and were wonderfully good natured compared to tribes people or even Europeans, who are often nasty under similar circumstances. Opposite the Imperial Hotel I visited Okamoto, a colored slide maker, and I purchased a few slides. His stock