Eliza Scidmore began writing dispatches(特派、特電)from Japan. She admired the high status of Japanese women in Harper’s Bazaar, wrote about teapots for The Cosmopolitan Magazine, and analyzed the differences between Japanese and Chinese chopsticks. In an article for American Farmer about Japanese silkworms, she reverentially(恭しく、敬虔に)described the caterpillars as “delicately-reared(飼育された)aristocrats(貴族).”
She returned to Washington, D.C., with photographs of cherry blossom trees— “the most beautiful thing in the world” —and began petitioning President Grover Cleveland’s administration to plant them along the Tidal Basin(ポトマック川の入江).