U. S. Astronomer Percival Lowell, Specialist Of Mars, And Anamizu

U. S. Astronomer Percival Lowell, Specialist Of Mars, And Anamizu. . , (Japanese marker text not transcribed), U.S. Astronomer Percival Lowell, Specialist of Mars, and Anamizu , Anmaizu Town And Its Friend City, Flagstaff, Arizona, U.S.A. , Dr. Percival Lowell (1855-1916_, the world famous astronomer on Mars and who succeeded in discovering the existence of Pluto by observation and mathematical calculations, visited our town, Anamizu, on May 9th, 1899, as terminal of his grand tour of the central part of Japan. His book of travels entitled "NOTO"-An unexplored Corner of Japan-was first introduced in Atlantic Monthly in 1891, then it was published by Horton Mifflin, New York and Boston in the same year. The book depicts various aspects of the rural area of Japan in the middle of the Meiji Period and especially introducing things about Anamizu to the western countries for the first time. , When he was sailing by a small steam boat from Wakura for Anamizu, observing the Boramachi-Yagura (Fish Watching Tower) with his abundant imagination he wrote: "..., there detached itself from the background of trees along the shore the most singular aquatic structure I think I have ever seen. It looked like the skelton of some antediluvian wigwarm which a prehistoric roc had subsequently chosen for a nest." , In commemoration of Lowell's historical visit to our town, Anamizu, we decided to communicate with Flagstaff City, Arizona, where Lowell spent the rest of his life after he left Japan for twenty-two years concentration all his efforts and times on astronomy by setting up the Lowell Observatory at his own expense in Flagstaff in 1896. , As a first project of the Percival Lowell Memorial Association, which was created in February 1980, the Anamizu-Flagstaff Amity Mission consisting of eleven members of the association, paid a visit to Flagstaff on May 5th 1980, and exchanged greetings with Mayor Paul Babbitt, representatives from the Flagstaff Chamber of Commerce and the Lowell Observatory. , Ninety one years after Percival Lowell's visit to Anamizu, the mission was sent from Anamizu to Flagstaff in repaying his visit. Now, taking advantage of this very significant communication, we are willing to deepen and tighten our friendship between Anamizu and Flagstaff for the future to come.", We hereby present to the Lowell Observatory an identical copy of the panel of the Percival Lowell Memorial Monument, which was erected in our town in September 1981. , June 1982 , Shigeo Sena , Mayor , Anamizu Town, Fugeshi-gun, , Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan