November 1, 1917 I awoke at 7:00am and discovered myself traveling through rice fields, with an occasional tea garden and forest clad hills. From the Tenryugawa River, Fujiyama with its snow was visible in a clear sky. The river is a wide, granite sand affair, but very shallow. From it a clear sweep of country with the snow summit of Fujiyama is visible. Further on, near Shizuoka, where we arrived at 8:45am, vertical farming was in practice, - the first I had seen in Japan. Tea gardens composed most of these farms, which ran well to the tops of some of the high hills. On the less deep hills, terraces were prevalent. Many school houses were passed en route but in each case there was but one sex to a school, although with small boys, the teachers were often women. This sort of segregation takes place only among people who regard women as inferior to men and where morality is lower than in our country where the sexes are not separated even in the highest education.