Word: uyeno
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...down snow-covered hills on skateboards, while cars skidded on icy roads. During one magical day last week, as much as a foot of the white stuff fell across a four-county area in Southern California. Local children got a % rare glimpse of what Northerners mean by winter. Debbie Uyeno and her family built a snowman in their front yard and even piled flakes into the hot tub. "I don't ever remember snow," said Debbie, 12. "It was fun." Not for everybody. More than 10,000 customers lost electrical power, and drifts forced the closing of parts of Interstate...
...rickety alleys of the Asakusa and Honjo working-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...
...rare occasions, he is taken unannounced into the public world. In the hope that he had inherited his father's passionate interest in "biology," he was taken to Uyeno Park Zoo one day last autumn. There he observed that the hippopotamus, unlike his toy hippo at home, was supplied with a tail; also (there being no one with the audacity to hinder his demi-divine will) he fed the sheep to satiety on small pieces of paper...
...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...
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