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When I came home from Japan I sent picture post-cards to all the Japanese school-boys who had given me theirnames. I had chosen cards that I thought would give them some idea of the size and importance of our country. One card had a picture of the Capitol at Washington, another Niagara Falls, another sky-scrapers in New York. In reply each boy wrote me a letter on thin rice paper and drew or painted or inclosed a picture of somescene or common sight in Japan.
Three of the pictures were of the same thing—a beautiful mountain with a snow-white top. It is the sacred mountain of Japan, called Fujiyama or just Fuji. It is really not a mountain at all but a burnt-out volcano, the top of which is covered with snow. You can see it from afar, and the Japanese love it so they put pictures of it on every conceivable thing they want to ornament—on fans, boxes, trays, umbrellas, lanterns, screens. No movie queen or famous beauty has ever had as many pictures made of her as have been made of Fuji.
There were two pictures of a huge bronze statue of Buddha seated out-of-doors in a grove of trees. It is so large that half a dozen people can sit on its thumbs. The eyes are of solid gold and more than a yard long, and in its forehead is a large ball of solid silver. They call it the Diabutsu. We might call it an idol, but the Japanese make statues of Buddha as we put up monuments to famous men and saints, and their statues of Buddha are to remind them that he was wise and good. His life was an example which even Christians might imitate.

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我从日本回国后，就给那些想和我通信的日本男孩都寄了风景明信片。我特地挑选了一些明信片，这些明信片我认为可以让他们对美国的国土面积和国际地位有所了解。一张明信片上的图画是华盛顿的国会大厦，另一张是尼亚加拉瀑布，还有一张是纽约的摩天大楼。每个男孩都用薄薄的米纸给我写了回信，有的用铅笔画了一幅画，有的用颜料画了一幅画，有的随信附上一张图片，上面画的都是日本风景或常见的景点。
有三张画是同一景物——一座美丽的山，山顶白雪皑皑，那是日本的圣山——叫做“富士山”，其实，它不是一座真正的山，而是一座死火山，山顶覆盖着白雪。人们远远地就能看见它。日本人非常喜欢富士山，他们将富士山的照片贴在他们想要装饰的任何一件东西上——扇子上、盒子上、托盘上、伞上、灯笼上、屏风上。没有哪位影后或名媛佳丽能像富士山那样让人拍了那么多的图片。
有两张画画的是一个巨大的青铜佛像，坐落在树丛中。青铜佛像非常大，仅两只大拇指就可以坐得下六个人。眼睛是用纯金做的，有1码多长，前额上有一个巨大的纯银制的球。他们把铜像称为“Diabutsu”，我们也许称其为偶像。日本人就像我们为名人或圣人竖立纪念碑一样制作佛像，是为了提醒自己，佛陀是充满智慧的、和善的，他的一生是个榜样，即使是基督徒也可以效仿。