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Surimono—The New Year Cards of Japan 
(Continued from page 68) 
—the jewel gift (toshidama), a fan, 
dried seaweed (lioshinoti), towel, 
parcel of paper, dried salmon and 
sweetmeats, each significant, just as 
are the lobster and tortoise (symbols 
of honorable old age and longevity), 
and dwarf plum (longevity also). 
Then the Seven Gods of Good For¬ 
tune are favorite subjects, too.—Fo- 
korkujin (of wealth, prosperity and 
longevity), Jiiro (of longevity), 
Ebisu (of daily food). Hotel, Daiko- 
ku (of prosperity) Bishamon Ten 
(of renown) and Benton She, the 
musician. Then the surimono artist 
would depict Roshi (the Chinese 
Lao-Tsze), originator of the Taoist 
philosophy, riding on an ox, and 
Saigio Hoshi (teacher of the law) 
as an old priest on a bullock and gaz¬ 
ing in ecstasy on Alt. Fuji. 
The Japanese Kalendar, in its pecu¬ 
liar arrangement of Cycles, years and 
months also furnished inspiration to 
the allusive designer, as, for instance, 
the Kitsune (Fox Year) or Kikuziki 
(the Chrysanthemum month). This 
merely suggests the wealth of allu¬ 
sion to be found in Japanese suri¬ 
mono and that one fond of folk-lore 
will take delight in delving into the 
interpretations of their subject mat¬ 
ter as artistically set forth. 
The first seven days of the Japa¬ 
nese New Year’s festival are called 
the matsu mnchi or week of Pine 
Decoration, and so the pine branch 
figures generously in the New Year’s 
surimono. While the pine symbol¬ 
ized longevity, the Bamboo stood for 
prosperity and happiness and also 
frequently figures in the design of a 
surimono. It is on the fifteenth day 
of the festival that the Japanese send 
New Year surimono to their friends. 
Surimono often contain poems in 
exquisite calligraphy and nearly all 
surimono would yield a vast store 
of entertainment if one would take 
the trouble to have their inscriptions 
translated. Thus one might find him¬ 
self possessed of the surimono which 
Giokuyen designed for an actor who 
wished to announce to his friends 
that he had adopted a son to whom 
he had given his name, or a collector 
might find the translated line of a 
surimono inscription reading “I-itsu, 
the old man of Katsushika, playing 
the monkey-trick of imitating other 
people” which would reveal the fact 
that he was the enviable possessor of 
one of the five satirical surimono of 
actors by Hokusai with which this 
great color-print master retorted to 
Toyokuni’s plagiarization of his, Ho¬ 
kusai's, Mangwa Series in 1823. 
Toyokuni, it will be remembered, was 
famed for his actor prints. 
Hokusai and Gakutei 
Hokusai, of whom Theodore Duret 
said : “'He pictured everj-thing to be 
seen by the eye or invented by the 
brain of a Japanese,” stands pre-emi¬ 
nent in surimono. The most elabo¬ 
rate and characteristic of these were 
brought forth in 1804, a year in Japa¬ 
nese history, famous for its brilliant 
festivals and for the impetus it gave 
to Japanese social life. At a later 
period, 1823, the fashion of surimono 
had take a firm hold on the people. 
Competitions were held f,or New 
Year’s surimono designs and many 
clubs of amateurs and connoisseurs 
were formed, vying with one another 
in surimono production. The “So¬ 
ciety of Flower Hats” was such a 
circle, and this society was lavish in 
its commissions to surimono artists. 
Hokusai continued to produce suri¬ 
mono to 1835, though his output was 
small. De Concourt wrote cata¬ 
logue raisonee of these. 
Next after Hokusai’s surimono, 
those of Gakutei (who also signed 
himself Gogakn) reach the highest 
mark. No collector should miss the 
opportunity to acquire one of Gakii- 
tei’s exquisite prints. After him I 
would place Hokuba. Hokkei, too, 
stands close to Gakutei and his suri¬ 
mono are brilliant. They often close¬ 
ly follow Hokusai’s manner, but show 
colder coloring. Hokkei was prolific 
and studious. On his tomb was 
placed this inscription: “Grave of 
Kienrojin Hokkei. He was an able 
artist; he delighted in study of every 
kind ; he had in his own house several 
thousand of books.” Hokkei began 
life as a fish-seller, and for this rea¬ 
son (also because Japanese tradition 
points back to a time when Japan was 
a nation of fishers) surimono with 
fish subjects in the design are of 
especial interest. 
How Plants Grow 
(Continued from page 50) 
stored up in the seed or root enough 
food for it particularly adapted to its 
needs to give it a strong start. In the 
case of the meaty seed leaves of the 
bean, for instance, so much nourish¬ 
ment is stored away that it will enable 
the plant to develop to the flowering 
stage without the use of any food 
from the outside, except, of course, 
moisture and what it can gather 
through its leaves from the air. 
When the little seed sprouts, it 
grows in two directions: the embryo 
leaf stalks pushing up toward the light 
and air; the embryo main or tap roots 
pushing down or out into the soil. In 
some cases, one grows more rapidly at 
first than the other, but as a general 
thing they develop simultaneously. 
As the leaf stalk reaches the sur¬ 
face, it throws out branches and more 
leaves. A similar development goes 
on below the soil, but it is, as a rule, 
much more rapid and extensive. The 
roots of an alfalfa plant, making a 
growth above ground of 3' or so, have 
been found 30' below the surface of 
the soil. 
The way in which the roots take up 
the nourishment of the plant from the 
soil through the porous root hairs 
growing at their extremities has al¬ 
ready been explained. In some cases, 
these root hairs number as many as 
25,0(X) to a square inch of root sur¬ 
face. By the action or circulation of 
the sap or juice of the plant, which 
corresponds in a way to the blood in 
animals, the water taken up through 
the roots is distributed to every part 
of the plant, carrying with it the ma¬ 
terial for the building up of new cells 
and tissues. A small part of this 
moisture is used for the plant itself, 
but by fir the greatest part is evapo¬ 
rated through the “mouth” or lungs 
in the leaves already described in an 
earlier paragraph. 
From this very brief outline I hope 
I have made plain the fact that the 
results which the gardener may hope 
to get cannot be left to chance. At 
every turn and angle there are factors 
which, to a greater or less extent, the 
gardener can control if he knows 
what they are and what he is trying to 
accomplish. 
In the next issue these things will 
be covered point by point and made as 
clear as possible. 
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