His Adams praises Nikko's great shogun temples: "a mountain flank with its evergreens a hundred feet high modelled into a royal posthumous residence and deified abode." Chalfant does not comment on Adams' grudging admiration of accomplishment beyond "what I should have thought possible for Japs," or his neat summary ending: "It is a sort of Egypt in lacquer and
greenth." As with the pottery-owner's wife, the comparison simultaneously flatters and belittles, but--possibly taking Adams' own advice to cut "whatever seems to delay the story, for a biography ought to be a story"--Chalfant doesn't pause to comment on the language.