The Days of a Man ^1900 



4 study sent a "memorial." This was a kakemono painted 

 Chidden ky Toya, Sendai's most famous artist, who died in 

 huts" 1850. A, delicate moonlight study of a rabbit lurk- 

 ing among autumnal flowers in the sendai (that is, 

 "hidden hills" or "high places of secrecy") and said 

 to be a characteristic specimen of Toya's work, it 

 illustrates the first canon of Japanese landscape art 

 by embodying "earth, sky, and a living creature." 

 When I in turn expressed appreciation in my pret- 

 tiest fashion, tea and raisins were served, after which 

 they asked me to tell them about Stanford Univer- 

 sity. 



During our stay, Count Date, representative of an 

 old and famous family, showed me a box of fish 

 paintings made a hundred years before for his noble 

 house. These were excellently done, the species being 

 readily recognizable. Among others was the remark- 

 A strange able Ranzania niakua, a very strange fish already 

 fi sh described by Jenkins from Honolulu in which the 



tail seems to be directly fastened to the large head 

 without intervening body. 1 It was labeled (in Japan- 

 ese, of course) "off the sea of Akabane, Mikawa, by 

 Sokichi Minake." There is no other record of makua 

 from Japan, and only five specimens all from 

 Hawaii have ever been noted elsewhere. In view 

 of our great interest, the daimyo afterward sent 

 Snyder a careful copy of that particular painting. 



From Sendai we made a very interesting side trip 

 to Matsushima, "pine islands," according to popular 

 estimation second only to Miyajima in charm. For 

 the broad and shallow bay is studded with a multi- 

 tude of small, rocky islands said to number 808, each 



1 Ranzania truncata, also rare, is found in the Atlantic. The genus is allied 

 to the common Head-fish, Mola mola. 



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