Show r VA W w toab H I 1 bato f il e qa 1 1 n 4 6 RS 1 AV N PA r rava NEW J 4 r 1 11 hemr az her sails goods loaded with precious outspread oh her decks men busy 44 with jigging and oars A japanese at poem Is also printed on it 7 na ka ki yo no V to no ne fu ri no i 14 bit na me sa me na rot no rl fu ne no aa 0 to no yo lit ka na translated roughly this means M of long nighat after a sound s jeep resting awake in bed e ir a cheerful sound of a sailing vessel PC gliding ova r the billows its translation loses the I 1 oem in but A power of calling up associations imagine himself living near one can ith it nooks bays w rf AY TOR 7 b an and inland sei pine 9 roves and plum from the hilly hanging over aw blo goms horl the s un as yet below the zon and in the mist he can discern a E deeply pity the a 11 vessel gliding smoothly leavin g merry of the japanese yet there is of sailors behind to be carried sons W something very beautiful in away by the spring breeze this is the archaic simplicity of their considered an appropriate cc enery to faith cadio hearn found think over in the calm of the spring in shintoism greek religion night but t his aesthetic association transplanted in the midst of S is little appreciated by the masses this century NN hat 6 0 s they rather wonder 9 lt the clever con reads he read ai d imagined in an st ruction of this poem that chent literature lite he really just alike from either end read from V found in this land of the ris the end and go back to the beginning ing sun for all tl e modern syllable by syllable you have just the of japan there Is one same result as it you read from the spot where the hand of the dissecting I 1 li N beginning science has done but little damage A NOW what kind of dreams are the visitors from and enlightened NO best first fugl in buntain second lands can go deep into the real life of eagle third eggplant fou rth funer the archaic society in japan and in the A 1 4 al fifth snakes these are the five twinkling of an eye they can come back best ones to dream of the horse 13 to the luxury of the twentieth century 31 also auspice ious if a japanese should and this archaic society Is a living one happen to dream he is qu ite blue over and not an artificial miniature the matter these people however thy Is aroused as the faith is the only are not without the means of getting surviving remnant of the time honored out of this misfortune they say when old religion political sentiment Is IA they had a ba d dream to the baku touched as shintoism peoples woods to the baku now I 1 hey did not know 4 mountains trees rocks rivers and sea A wh at baku was they only knew shores nith gods and goddesses com that this in mysterious animal living in passion is kindled as it is by a beautiful 4 a dreamy land liv ed on the dreams of dawn slowly dissolving beffie the on aw man and bad dreams w ere cast to slaught of the f berce daylight no wonder the baku it was a shock to these old then that shintoism finds many lovers fashioned people when their children among westerners told them that the deac her of zoology I 1 like to introduce the reader not told the children that the baku is a indeed to the stately mansol e um and caie AMU hippopotamus an d lived on mony of shintoism but to the humble tie val green leaves and not on dreams household of the common folk of japan A such a revelation though cannot january in japan is a month of rest co 7 ZA E TO tal change the superstition and people and festival rest after hard work and still say to the baru to relieve harvest festival as an auspicious bein be in 11 minds after a bad dream ning of the year before the end of tl tie e old 3 ear pine branches are set up by the gateways s shrines of gods hearth well nell and oth er places thee pine brand es signifying constancy are hung with a straw ring made to imitate a jewel with of light radiating from it and stuck with a dried sardine a leaf ot of evergreen pieces of paper and a bit of ed ble seaweed these rings are also put on almost all rep representative articles of furniture fum fuin iture and kitchen ample ments and this is said to let them take one year TIIs tl is suggests that these articles were vere believed once to have had life and so have felt the advance of age the festival of going over the year or Toshi kosht Is sometimes called Toshi Tos hiton torl or taking the ear and Is a busy time for the housewife she has to cook many different dishes all of which have prosperous cance besides I 1 er or regular rice and bean soup I 1 et me ate some soup of clam which opens when cooked signifies the opening out of the good tor for tune roe of herring which is called kaz unoko or numerous aum erous children forms a d sh whose meaning Is ob health in japanese Is mame so beans must be eaten as these happen harpen to I 1 ave the same sounding word ord for their name salt salmon fish cake pickled radish and many others must be prepared on this event t f il 11 en ee e for we are going to add one whole ear during the night fhe rhe aitel en is full ot of I 1 fe e with kettles whistling and pots steaming plates and trays all spread out chil dren and even cats are very apt to be mischievous at such times but they receive no scolding as the great fes cival should not be marred matred by discord and irritation when food is ready gods are served first with all these dishes but only in miniature lights are put before them sake liquor is offered in a pair of small vases which by the way vay I 1 have often een been used for flowers in menca before the gods on the shelf they hang highly colored leaflets each with a luel y meaning one is tl e god of fortune inder an auspicious gem with a bagful of gold coins coral and other i brecious things another has a bundle of edible seaweed which is called fhe phrase to rejoice in japanese is yoro iheke Is a record in history kob kobi i so seaweed shows that there vas nas a custom once means rejoin of belling selling and buying dreams once ing the last has upon a time there was a prince in under it a lobster A a famous house he ile was vas thinking to person doubled up with ith court a maiden an and d she I 1 ad a strange reminds one ot of a lobster dream which she could not make ma ke out with its doubled up N ta a st 6 D W CZ she called in tl e help of her eldest so the lobster quite guite often is pic 6 6 sister the latter seeing the good representative of the aged offered to buy the tures quely omen of 0 the dream of the ca when the faill hae hane bowed down before the gods the eat the great meal and a few rounds of sake were ceremoniously served in former days dabs once you have eaten this feast you haie hane added one year and a child born in december is said to be two years old right after this meal I 1 used to be reminded by older people that I 1 sho ho ild be a better boa bo from the first of january as I 1 had added one year ear during that one night they say that one night of the of december is worth 50 days of usual da dais s and those who go to bed early thia this night will grow old that in ch in one night are not troubled by a s t of gods the japanese have already many gods at home and yet on new year years s day they buy i hinted gods tits tl is paper Is hung above the stone stove on which one co ks rice one represents year god with thank offerings ot of rice sake kneaded rice and new year decora eions of eNer evergreen green trees the figure is B the oil ginal shinto god has long been replaced by a bod desat aa shoeing shoving the result of usurpation of shin tolsa by sm gin effected by a buddhist pi lest kobo as a means of buddhist propagation these offerings were mere once real ones but the japanese learned how to economize labor and expense by printing and the goddess heisele came into the picture another picture is also hung before the shelf the cen aral figure is prince shotoku the famous patron of bud deism in its early daa da in japan A japanese spade stalks of rice on a tray thresher sake liquor and cooked rice are the offerings A pair of foxes need a little ex e originally they belonged to a very popular shinto god wl ose place has been usurped through the strategy of kobo and this buddhist prince has been sub but religious degeneration has gone gane on further and these totes foxes came to be mistaken for the god itself and nd inari worship for inart Is the name of the god Is seen nowadays in its most degraded form of fox wor ship others are a pair of salesman s gods who they originally were has very little to do with the worship anyhow as gods of good luck and prosperity they are worshiped in new years season and almost every shop has these idols in stock early on the first of january new year years s callers begin to pour in iti vv hat do they say saya mth ith beads heads bowed d down own and hands on the sill they mumble congratulations for the opening of the new year and pray that it will bp continued in future this phrase Is so common that the time timp and yet both are both sides speak at baire well understood one says wont you come in no answers the other I 1 have more houses to call then come when you arc are through and the caller goes it the caller should come in he Is sumptuously feasted with food and drink and you see more open drunkenness on new years day than at other times superstitious people find omens and meanings in dreams and the japanese must have good dreams to be gin the for this purpose they put a piece of paper under the bed on this paper a japanese j ink is printed an old mirror was the price dream changed his mind quite prince the meanwhile mide and paid his court to the it if by magic suddenly as her hand this s prince Is the famous eldest and won the or military regen Yari Yarl tomo who founded cy in japan family retold when the told and S ich is the story the long spring pring box and spend the fire by get together these humble doings af of the night in merriment I 1 hope may find a warm reception among common 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