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the Earth.” See this lower named “Amanokawa"—Milky Way—really the name itself tells. It is coloured in light purple that is woven from the silver of the mist and gentle rain; if you see it from a proper distance, it is no other than a Milky Way almost ready to disappear and still quite distinct in its airiness. Here is a kind with the name of “Dew” or Tsuzu, whose colour is, of course, white, the creation or fashioning of frost and freeze; if you touch it, it were no wonder if it should vanish like a dream or poetry. “Haru Kasumi,” or Spring Haze, reminds me of the day, or Spring with the air and wind and smoke-like amethysts, and our mind is nimble as that of a lark; the flower is grey-coloured, and its shape charmingly gay. You can see without seeing it what it might be when you are told it is “Natsu Gumo,” or Summer Cloud; it is a fantasy of the cloud that left the mountain, the most strange wings or curls of the flower floating like bursts of light. Of course, it is “First of Japan,” or Nippon Ichi, as it is the plant with more than one thousand blossoms red, white, purple and