ABSTRACT
Miyanoshita is situated in what is known as the "Hakone district," which is a general name to include all the heaped-up mass of mountains lying at the base of the Izu peninsula, between the "skirts" of Fuji Sau and the sea. There is one little village called Hakone on the side of the Hakone lake, or, rather, two little villages of the same name and close together. In summer lake Hakone is much cooler than Miyanoshita, and many foreigners come up from Yokohama and Tokyo to stay there, but, rather strangely, there is no European hotel. The path to Hakone starts up through the woods, then out over a rolling moor covered with coarse grass and innumerable field flowers—violets, orchids, bluebells, buttercups and lilies—or dense thickets of wild bamboo higher than a man's head. Hakone, because the springs really do come from a swampy part of the hollow.
