A lovely spring (from The Boy on the Tricycle)

Japan turned out to be a peaceful interlude in our wanderings. An overnight uneventful Japanese steamer delivered us from Vladivostok to the port of Tsuruga on the west coast of Japan. It was not only a crossing from one country to another close by, but seemed a transition from one season and one world to another, from a brutal winter to a lovely spring -suddenly, cherry blossoms, pretty doll-like girls in floral kimonos.

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