This dance is one that ought to be seen by those privileged to be in Japan during thi season. It fast dying out, and in a fow.yeurs more will be but a memory, "It is not one that can be properly put on the stage, for it requires above all things the spontaneity of the occasion, when those country damsels only remember that they ure the descendants of ancestors who, for centuries past, have looked forward to that season and that night, and who, believing that they are being watched by their forefathers—for are not the dead on earth at this time—do their part with a more than natural zest.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.