"my stay with you here has been most happy and i am very grateful to you for all your kindness to me, but i govern japan, and, delightful as this place is, i cannot absent myself forever from my country. i must also return the fishing hook to my brother and ask his forgiveness for having deprived him of it for so long. i am indeed very sorry to part from you, but this time it cannot be helped. with your gracious permission, i will take my leave to-day. i hope to make you another visit some day. please give up the idea of my staying longer now."