8 ipostelsia 



(Kombu-cha), boiled in soup or cooked 

 in a variety of ways. One form in which 

 Laminaria is very much relished by the 

 common people is the so-called Kombu- 

 mati or Laminaria roll. To make this, 

 the dried weed is boiled in fresh water 

 for a while and cut up into pieces of the 

 desired length and width. Portions of 

 dried herring, cod or other fish are 

 wrapped up in the boiled alga and then 

 recooked in dilute soy, soup or milk. 

 Laminaria is also used upon New Year's 

 day as a festoon, and for this purpose L, 

 radicosa (Antokume) is utilized, but not 

 as a food. 



Ecklonia bicycles (Arane). This is 

 used by the peasants in the same way as 

 Undaria and as a decoration. L. cava 

 (Kajine) has no food use, but is an im- 

 portant decorative plant. 



Cystophyllum fusiforme (Kijiki). The 

 young fronds are collected and dried in 



