change of scene and invited me to go with him. The next day I in turn took
Otaké.
Though threatening to forfeit the game, Otaké had remained sealed up at
the inn, and I was fairly sure that he would presently be coaxed into a
compromise. On the twenty-third a compromise was in fact reached: there
would be play every three days, and the sessions would end at four in the
afternoon. The compromise came on the fifth day after the first Itō session.
When at Hakoné the four-day recess had been shortened to three, Otaké
had said that he could not get enough rest in three days, and that two-and-a-
half-hour sessions were too short. He could not find his pace. Now the
three days were shortened to two.
