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Suzuki found his sea Legs on the expedition to the Kuril Islands, but Germany was to be an adventure of a diff er ent order. When the enormity of the step he was taking began to sink in, he felt a mixture of "intense expectations for the unknown world, and inevitably, a little bit of anxiety." As the Hakone-maru sailed on, however, the sheer excitement of all the new things he was seeing-Shanghai, Singapore, the Indian Ocean-eased his nerves. He was quite enjoying himself by the time the ship reached Marseille, where he parted com pany with Tokugawa and his companions. Suzuki headed for Berlin, where he hoped to find a master-teacher. 1 Upon arrival, he chose the Hotel Excelsior as his lodging. Located in a bustling area on Königgrätzer Straße, the hotel was one of the most fash ion able spots in Berlin. Its fame would only be magnified with Vicki Baum's 1929 novel Grand Hotel, set at the Excelsior, which provided the basis for a Hollywood movie starring Greta Garbo three years later. But when Suzuki appeared there in late 1921, the Excelsior was already a hub of aristocrats and film stars. Even Kaiser Wilhelm II, before the war, was known to drop in for a cup of coffee. No doubt t

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN