Describe Woody's journey in April 1946 in Farewell to Manzanar.Tell where he went, what he did, and whom he saw, and how he was treated.

In April 1946, Woody returns to his father's anscestral
home in Ka-ke, near the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Woody is a soldier, and part of the
American occupying forces in Japan. As a soldier, he imagines the silent resentment of
the people, who, he imagines, must consider him a traitor to his own. Because of this,
Woody actually dreads going to his father's home, but he figures he is "too close not to
visit." He is greeted by his father's aunt, Toyo, who must be around eighty years
old.

Toyo and the family receive Woody with joy, and
despite the fact that they have little, treat him like royalty. Woody's father had left
his home forty years before, and had lost contact with his family; they are delighted to
hear that he is still alive and living in California. With typical Japanese reserve,
they receive the gift of sugar Woody has brought graciously, a little embarrassed that
they have nothing to give in return. Although the house is large and kept scrupulously
clean, the rooms are almost empty, everything having been lost in the war. Toyo takes
Woody to what she says is his father's gravesite; when they had not heard from him in so
long, they had assumed he was dead, and had built a memorial to him. Ecstatic that her
nephew is not dead as presumed, she tells Woody,

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"There are...many relatives to meet. Everyone
will want to see Ko's
son."

Toyo shows Woody their
"immaculate rock garden," and, with consumate dignity, makes him a meal, which she
serves on "one of her few remaining treasures, a fine set of porcelain." Despite his
protests, she then gives him a delicate coverlet, and takes him to a room where he can
sleep. As he dozes, Woody senses a presence nearby, and he wakes to find Toyo sitting by
him, just gazing at him with intensity. She is crying, and quietly tells him that he
looks very much like his father. When Toyo leaves the room, Woody is overcome with "a
sadness both heavy and sweet." He has found a connection with his past and his ancestry
that he never fully appreciated, and resolves to ask his aunt tomorrow to share with him
her memories of his father, "everything (she) can remember" (Chapter
18).