The Pine. 5 



of gate decorations originated, by the way, with the com- 

 mon people. 



The other decorations include a rope, specially named 



shimc-nawa, with the strips of white paper, a cray-fish, 

 ferns, a large orange, called daidai, a leaf or two of an 

 evergreen tree, dried persimmons, dried chestnuts, etc. 



