The bird went on without stopping, and the woman took the trouble to tell me:
“That is the real poetry.”
CHAPTER V.
“Pardon, Danna[(24)] but may I ask you if you are from Tokyo?”
“Do I look from Tokyo?”
“Look? Why a glance ... your language tells.”
“Can you tell where in Tokyo?”
“Well, that is a puzzler; Tokyo is so large.... Let me see. You cannot be from down town. You must belong to up-town. The up-town parts are ... Kojimachi, eh? Or Koishikawa? If not, you must be from Ushigome or Yotsuya?”
“Somewhere around there. You seem to know Tokyo well?”
“Well, I am Tokyo-born, Danna, look what I may.”