No. 605, Kyoto, Japan, titled "Maruyama Park Promenaders."

Containers:

Box 1, Folder 23

Material specific details:

Printed on back: "No. 605. KYOTO, JAPAN. MARUYAMA PARK PROMENADERS. Maruyama Park is one of the suburbs of Kyoto, and is almost entirely occupied by tea houses, the resort of holiday makers bent on dancing and drinking. Here the foreigner has a fine chance to study the merry, vivacious, ever polite Japanese, of whom Sir Edwin Arnold said: 'Where else in the world does there exist such a conspiracy to be agreeable: such a widespread compact to render the difficult affairs of life as smooth and graceful as circumstances admit; such fair decrees of fine behavior fixed and accomplished for all; such a universal restraint of the coarser impulses of speech and act; such pretty picturesqueness of daily existence; such sincere delight in beautiful, artistic things; such frank enjoyment of the enjoyable; such tenderness to little children; such reverence for parents and old persons; such widespread refinement of taste and habits; such courtesy to strangers; and such willingness to please and be pleased?' A8893"

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