War Diaries (February 6) (nonfiction)
War Diary entries for February 6.
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Aizawa Kikutarō: February 6, 1904
I went to the village office at dawn. Due to the general mobilization order, everyone worked on conscription matters. Although it was my half holiday, I stayed until the evening. The mayor was absent. I had been planning to go to [my cousin's house in] Kawarajuku inline graphic and on to the land registry office, but due to the mobilization I postponed it. In the afternoon I sent Taijirō inline graphic to fetch Shigeharu inline graphic [Aizawa's son, from middle school in Tachikawa inline graphic], and in the evening I sent a letter to Kawarajuku. Kaku inline graphic pounded rice in the morning, and Taijirō put fertilizer down among the mulberry bushes. He used one basket for fifteen bushes, or one and a half gōinline graphic (0.27 liters) of rice bran per bush. Altogether he spread twenty baskets, for a total of four and a half toinline graphic (81 liters) of rice bran, mixed with one barrel of human manure. Altogether there are about two thousand mulberry bushes, so in total we can expect to use four bales of rice bran.
—Aizawa Kikutarō (diary)