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...Nikko, where the brilliant Toshogu Shrine is set in a fairyland of rugged mountains, waterfalls and virgin forests. Tourists also like to drive along the Izu Peninsula, with its tiny fishing villages and bubbling hot springs, visit Hakone for the best view of snow-capped Fujiyama, and stop at Toba, near Ago Bay, where they can see the world's biggest culture pearl operation and find some rare bargains...
Among Japanese esthetes there is a pretty distinction. On the one hand are those who study purely Japanese culture, lovers of No and Go (respectively formal drama and classical checkers), amateurs of the Thurberesque cartoons of Twelfth-Century Toba Sojo, appreciators of verse by the formal Hitomaro, experts in flower arrangement, tea-brewing and fish-breeding. On the other hand are the assiduous, tough-minded students of Chinese culture, whence sprang the Japanese culture which is now being foisted back on China. The former are generally peace-loving, stay-at-home liberals; the latter are nationalistic fire-eaters...
Sanford D. Kimball -- Miss Toba Silver, Springfield...
...Pearl Island, Toba Harbor, Japan, Pearl Tycoon Kokichi Mikimoto celebrated a memorial service for hundreds of millions of "souls" departed from "martyred" oysters, then rehearsed his own funeral service...
...Another Japanese, Yoshiro Ohta, small as a bellboy but accurate as a sewing-machine, carried Hennessy to a deuce set before he went down, 8-6, 6-3, 6-3. Next day Tilden and Lott ended the Davis Cup series in the west by beating Abe and Toba...