The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-04
DAY OF DAYS FOR NIPPONESE.
BiNZAIS FOR HIS SACRED NIL
ESTIrS JJTH BIRTHDAY.
Nice-COnsul Nail Presides AT a Dinner.
Columbia students Eat Fish Raw and
Roasted, and Diners at Tatsu MIHOgcr-
Ichi's watch The Rice Planning Dance.

His Majesty the Emperor Of Japan was
81 years old yesterday. As a consequence.
where yer two or three loyal Japanese
met it wa "Banzai Nippon" thrice repeated
and then home.
November 8 is a great day in japan.
Over there they hang out strings of red and
white lanterns on bamboo poles, shoot OUT
or bamboo p~arachutes of red and
white tissue paper and linger long over
the sake ia the ~teahouses at night. The
honorable police do not arrest if one gets
tangled up on the way home. In New
York one cannot shoot of the bamboo
cannons with convenience, nor can one
drink 100 much sake without danger of
being arrested by the honorable police,
But one may celebrate the birthday of
Daikoku fifty and with much rejoicing.
Yesterday morning Hon, the soft footed
h~ouseboy. asked for a day of; it was a
friend hat was very sick. The gentleman
banker hurried home to get into his proper
clothes at the tick Of three. Before night
fall there were celebrations at a dozen
different places throughout the city. and
the exchange of paper fans, wrapped up
in tissue and tied with a gift knot. was made
with much sucking in Of the breath.
III Aikh VIC az Nv llNNNiClt
in Japan are won't to dub those who dress
in the height of foreign fashion. assembled
al the Hotel Majestic at o O'Clock to attend
a banquet given by Vice-COnsul NJ. Nagi.
Among those who sat down TO the tables.
flower decked according to the accepted
Occidental fashion, we're the heavy bust
ness men Of the city, bankers, lawyers and
doctors.
Ii was very formal. Vice-Consul Nagi
presided. Speeches were made when the
champagne was passed and toasts were
drunk to the Emperor and TO the President
of the United States. At the end they all
stood and sang the national anthem, the
Kimigayo;
May our Enperor's domain continue III a thousand
years have passed:
One thousand years and eight tho lsahd.
Ultil the pebble becomes a rock and the rock Is
covered with green moss.
Hardly as stiff as the Vice. Consul dinner,
yet distinctly a high collar" celebration
was that held by the japan Club of Column
bia University at a Japanese restaurant
at Al East Nineteenth street. Here twenty
of the Japanese students sat down to a
banquet that was almost as good as the
Maple Club in Toxic sets out. only
the charming little neesdns that patter
across the mating in the Shiba ingle. all
in their lowered kimonos and
gorgeous obs, we're lacking.
IL was a Japanese menu that the Columbia
students discussed, served in the home
There was the raw fish, delic ately
sliced and decorated with the spray of
bamboo leaf: after that the fish soup
in lacquer bowls, wherein one dips the sticks
and angles for the tender ginger shoots.
Roast fish with soy, grilled fish and fish
chowder followed; then the rice with III
malodorous daikOn In slices, and finally
sake from thin Tipped Satsuma jugs, drawn
steaming hot from the bamboo jackets.
The Columbia students topped on their
banquet with the singing Of old classic
verse interminable songs Of an antiquity
makes" Chevy Chase seema~ youngster.
The ancient ballads are divided into all
night cantos. One sings until mid night
and then leaves on the rest Of the verses
for some future date.
II the high collars" did honor TO the !
Emperor in a rigid high collar manner |
u was in the little back room Of a dingy
Japanese restaurant over on Sands street
In Brooklyn that the fun ran the whole
rollicking Iinns. Tatsu Hizogouchi owns
this restaurant, Tatsu who used to keep a
waiting house out In the Toxic Yoshiwara.
And Tatsu knows how To plca-e his guests.
Last night there were twenty Nippon
men and women squatting around on the
mating In Tatsu's back room. No chairs
for them: II was good to get down on the
floor again, where the little tables for food
be placed before FAC one Int where
one felt comfortable with toes doubled
under ankles and knees apart.
What they had for dinner at Tatsu's
was not h Vice-Consul Nagi set be-
fore his guests at the Hotel Majestic, but
Il wasseaten with .boisterou7 fun and. bub-