fruit trees in their little toy gardens just for the blossoms. They have a flower festival when the trees are in bloom. Everybody writes little poems about the flowers on rice paper, and ties them to the trees. Isn't that a pretty thing to do? People try to stay out of doors, in big parks, all they can, in cherry blossom time. They go up the mountain sides where miles of trees are in bloom. They take picnic lunches in little straw boxes. They carry oiled paper parasols for fear it might rain; and when they come home at night they carry red paper lanterns to light the way.
Sometimes Japan is called the Flowery Kingdom. It might be called the land of polite people, or the land of happy children. What would you call it? See Japan, page 960. Mutsuhito, Emperor of Japan, page 1292, and Oriental Art in article on Fine Arts.
