Fri. 22. [22 April 1898] Fine but cold, sunny and warm later. Went out
to see the Buddha, first the new one, very monstrous, then the old one,
sitting by the edge of a pond, extremely lovely. Pines and grey
temple roof behind. Drove on to a point of land quite at the end of the
town where I walked in some gardens and looked at the sea and a
fish exhibition. I had forgotton my purse, but my kuromaya presented
his card at the guichet and stood surety for me. Lunched with the
Hellyers, very agreeable bourgeois people. She's an American.
They are both kindness itself. Then drove under the foot of the hills,
walked up to a point from whence we had a fine view over the bay
and the crinkled grassy hills behind us, saw the foundations of Mr
Hellyer's new house, drove on to a waterfall; the drooping willows are
too delicious in their fresh full leaf. Then to a garden where Mandarin
and I bought some trees and so home to tea. We said goodbye to
dear Koza this morning.