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Years in America

In San Francisco he was enrolled at Pacific Business College but it was just to experience American life because business was by no means his favorite subject and he had no intention to study right from the start. He read ‘The Biography of Conrad von Gesner’ and was determined to become Japan’s Gesner. He worked energetically to collect various kinds of fungi and lichens during his six years in America. (Photo: the trunk that traveled with him.)

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