"Cherry-Blossom
-in-a-Mist" 1 3 Guest* 2* 1* 3* 1 2 3*
2* 6

NAMES OF INCENSE USED.

I. "Tasogare" ("Who-Is-there?" I. e. "Evening-Dusk").
II. "Baikwa" ("Plum Flower").
III. "Wakakusa" ("Young Grass").
IV. ("Guest Incense") "Yamaji-no-Tsuyu"
("Dew-on-the-Mountain-Path"). To the Japanese original of the
foregoing record were appended the names of the players, the date of
the entertainment, and the name of the place where the party was
held. It is the custom In some families to enter all such records in
a book especially made for the purpose, and furnished with an index
which enables the Ko-kwai player to refer immediately to any
interesting fact belonging to the history of any past game.

The reader will have noticed that the four kinds of incense used
were designated by very pretty names. The incense first
mentioned, for example, is called by the poets' name for the
gloaming,--Tasogare (lit: "Who is there?" or " Who is it?")--a
word which in this relation hints of the toilet-perfume that
reveals some charming presence to the lover waiting in the dusk.
Perhaps some curiosity will be felt regarding the composition of
these incenses. I can give the Japanese recipes for two sorts;
but I have not been able to identify all of the materials
named:--

Recipe for Yamaji-no-Tsuyu.