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...class districts, where they had nervously hung blackout shades in their flimsy houses. By foot or bus or train they would take to the parks-to Asakusa, with its booths of cheap souvenirs and its great red temple of Kwannon; to Uyeno, with its museums and galleries; or to Shiba, with its tree-shrouded tombs of the shoguns. To the shuffling crowds watching for the blossoms, the days would seem more hopeful than they had for a very long time...
...Sumida River (1) and little Kanda River (2), his Majesty can state as an eyewitness are still flowing. Buds are sprouting in the "Cherry Blossom Parks": Shiba (3), Hibiya (4), Uyeno (5), and Hama Rikyu (6), which is every year the scene of the Imperial Cherry Blossom Garden Party. Different is Asakusa Park (7), a "Coney Island," incongruously surrounding the Sacred Temple of the Goddess of Mercy...
...Shiro Shiba, who is now a professor of Political Economy and a member of the Japanese Economical Society, has written a novel entitled, "Kajin-no-kigu." It is spoken of in highest terms by the Japanese Press, and among the honorary preface writers are Gen. Tani and Mr. Kim Okyuen. - Pennsylvanian...