ABSTRACT
Our tickets mentioned early forenoon for the opening, which was quite Japanese. In Japan they make a day of it, not an afternoon or an evening. You rise early to go to your Japanese garden-party. Your picnic or 'social meeting' may begin at 9.30 or 10 A.M., and you are back home in mid-afternoon. Even in winter your card of invitation to the various feast which resident foreigners irreverently designate a * geisha spree*—essentially an evening entertainment —mentions 5 or 5.30 P.M. as the hour of assembly ; though, in truth, if you obey the letter of the invitation, you must receive and entertain yourself for an hour or two before the arrival of your host or hosts at the appointed temple of Bacchus at the unappointed hour.
