Page 8, The Enchanted Waterfalls

Page 8, The Enchanted Waterfalls

Hasegawa, Takejiro, 1853-1938

Private collection, on loan to the Linda Lear Center for Special Collections and Archives, Connecticut College

T. Hasegawa, 17 Kamy Negishi, Tokyo

Meiji 25, Month 12, Day 25 (Dec 2, 1887)

Crepe paper bool

poor old father, who really needs it in his weakness and old age!" He was thinking in this way to himself one day as he was at work on the wooded hills, when the sound of rushing water caught his car. He had often worked in the same spot before, and could not remember that there was any torrent or waterfall near. So, feeling rather surprised, he followed the sound,which got louder and louder until at last he came upon a beautiful little cascade. The water looked so clear and cool that he stooped down where it