February 2nd - the whole country is almost frozen up.

  The cold weather is still continuing. In many places, especially in Tohoku and Hokuriku, the amount of snow is already twice ot three times as much as usual years. Even in Nagoya, where it snows scarecely in usual years, it snowed 15 cm deep or more.
  Mr.Hasegawa in Nayoro phoned me, requesting me to serve as an interpreter in the symposium on fine arts in Japan and Korea held  on Monday. I answered I was very afraid it would be almost impossible for me to do it, because I had almost no knowledge about fine arts, especially about Korean fine arts. But there are no other interpreter, so I am afraid I will have to accept it. Do I have time and energy to study about the history or the present situation of fine arts of Korea now?