. Diaries and letters. mo. The Governor suggests thatI make visits to the cerebrated shrines Yaegaki,-^ and Kumano,^ and tlienasks :— * Does he know the tradition of theor gin of the clapping of hands before a Shintoshrine ? I reply in the negative; and the Govern-or says the tradition is given in a commentary^upon the Kojiki. It is in the thirty-second section of thefoutteenth volume, where it is written thatYa-he-Koto-Shironushino-Kami clapped hishands. jjiipit. 4- I^os he 0 he ( II-COIiflTft h ii^ C^J ■Oo 5- a commenlary upon Ihe Kojiki ^hi%i& i-l>nlif# con. fi!f^*
. Diaries and letters. mo. The Governor suggests thatI make visits to the cerebrated shrines Yaegaki,-^ and Kumano,^ and tlienasks :— * Does he know the tradition of theor gin of the clapping of hands before a Shintoshrine ? I reply in the negative; and the Govern-or says the tradition is given in a commentary^upon the Kojiki. It is in the thirty-second section of thefoutteenth volume, where it is written thatYa-he-Koto-Shironushino-Kami clapped hishands. jjiipit. 4- I^os he 0 he ( II-COIiflTft h ii^ C^J ■Oo 5- a commenlary upon Ihe Kojiki ^hi%i& i-l>nlif# con. fi!f^*^H;n:iiS^fs]4Tg 1 ^ -|[zg S (i -ill-* .L®?)^-, Hi-- f z /> ,< i^ ^^ r j^ I thank the Governor for his kind sugges-tions and his citation/ After a brief silence Iam graciously dismissed with another genuinehand-grasp ; and we return to the school. ^Hi] I. citation ^lifL-C^ML-C<<a?::io — 13 — 2. to !.e di^missed ^^ t li ;Vft 3 H ^., ^ j {li I h- J , — 14 —. II HAVE been teaching for threehours in the Middle Schoc^l,and teaching Japanese boysturns out to be a much moreagreeable task than I hadimagined. Each class has been so well pre-pared for me beforehand by Nishida that myutter ignorance of Japanese makes nodifficulty in regard to teaching : more-over, although the lads cannot understandmy words always when I speak, theycan understand whatever I write upon with chalk. Most of them havealready been studying English from childhood,with Japanese teacliers. All are wonderfullydocile and patient. According to old custom,when the teacher enters, the whole class risesand bows to him. He returns the bow, andcalls the roll,- [.ti-H I. turns out = iesulls, <;hows in the end ;£ fS. ^ o li - mB(o±\zi}^ < z h \int %^6o ^tk^^mt 2. I he roll Atf^A _ i6 — Nishida is only too^ kind. He heli^s n ein every way he possibly can, and is constant-ly regi-lting that lie cannot help nie are, of course, some difficulties to o
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