The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-09-02

calls a story with which he IS ~
millar. Thus the doings OF Yoshitsune.
the deeds OF the II Ronin. and the acts
OF the 500. 900 gods are fayorite sub
jects. Besides these groups OF How
er figures at Dangozaka there are as
tonishing productions in the way OF
training single plants TO curious and
absurd forms. This training Is done
by tying individual shoots or branches
10 slender splints. A fayorite form
for such training is a fan; but rings.
bicycles. tram cars. sailing vessels
with extended sails) are not beyond
the range of possibility.
The least significant OF the three
forms OF exhibit at Dangozaka Is the
display OF blossoms. There are. how-
ever, some things OF interest. Thus.
at present. there is a great plant COW
cred with a sheet OF bloom which Is
composed. they say. OF more than a
thousand individual flowers.
There are many such c~hrysanthe-
mum shows just now in progress. one
which makes a bid for a higher class
of patronage is to be seen In the
great wrestling hall. This building. a
new one. is claimed TO be the largest
audience hall in the whole Orient
Just now Il is given up to chrysanthe-
NUNS. There is a great show OF
blooming plants for sale as n ap-
proaches. Within there are the usual
groups OF figures. Most startling ana
striking of all OF these is a very ei-
~fective piece representing the famous
massage in the old mythology OF
Uzum dancing 10 please the gods
, The gods look sadly like Ainu gentry;
-. they have long and heavy boards quite
unlike what might be expected OF true
Japanese. They are represented az
i, sitting in a semicircle on the ground
: The background is a magnificent mass
ing of green and blooming lowers
broken al the middle by the opening
: Of the cave in which the sun goddess
has hidden herself. Several OF th'
; gods. supplied with characterisu
~Japanese instruments. seem to o.
nlaving the accompaniment to TN
I, "woman-of neutrality-suspicious. a
she dances. The god-of-the-strone
arms has seized the great stone at I'd
= entrance to the cave OF the sur GOO
dess and is dragging II aside. revea
ing the goddess herself against a DIT
- liant rising sun. After passing
series of finely executed groups, mos
ly traditional, although one conf
niece Is distinctly modern. we com
10 a final performance which is cur
Gus and Enthusiastically japanese.
-reuresents scenes I'm Yoshitsume
life In IL there is a great vessel sul
nosed TO represent a Chinese pira'
= Junk composed OF flowers. The mel
& seen in a canoe. The vessel =
n wolves In the apparent water TO u
q great 10y of the crowd of spectator
When II has completed its revoluu'
s IL suddenly falls 10 pieces, while ne
actors brilliantly illuminated WI
stI numberless small electric lights
different colors come into b seer
III Az the same time the ceiling OF I
.l snace above the spectators disappea
al and one seems TO be standing
Fl meath a trellis covered with penda
al clusters OF WlSldTld- LUIS "A
ing lowers over the head OF the GRO
I'm a curious and striking way, SIM
hut effective. At the wrestling hal
very notable competition Is tax
Mace in chrysanthemums. The pr
flowers have been carefully collar
with white paper collars to separ'
them from their surroundings and
give an opportunity for critical lu
}W ment upon the elements which ~
made them the winners of the PR
offered.
Another chrysanthemum display
on near Shiba park. Here the chrys
H tbemums In bloom are the attracti
There is also a great display OF
little dwarfed trees for which ia
Is famous. Here IN may see anci
nine trees a little more than a J
or two in height, some or u
rnarled and twisted in the
tastic fashions, initiating the wiz
freaks of nature; little naples
delicate foliage OF which is turn
little plum trees. whose leahess tru
and branches tell that winter col
'ef Here too. are stone gardens
ems Stone gardens are another story.
Copyright. 1910. by w. O.. chapma