Sunrise Stories: A Glance at the Literature of Japan

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K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, 1896 - 281 страници
 

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Страница 103 - I have not rendered an account, consisted of a bed, a table, a desk, three chairs, a lookingglass three inches in diameter, a pair of tongs and andirons, a kettle, a skillet, and a frying-pan, a dipper, a wash-bowl, two knives and forks, three plates, one cup, one spoon, a jug for oil, a jug for molasses, and a japanned lamp.
Страница 48 - A sycamore boat on a sea of mist, The moon sails, coasting by isles of amber ; And trembles, now, in my cup, I wist. And now stands poised o'er my leafy chamber.
Страница ix - ... Thanksgiving under the harvest moon ; and, on the festival of the dead, white-robed girls, issuing from the cemetery, perform the dance of the Ghosts. At the temple of the Green Lotus, in Kioto, Mr.
Страница ix - darling of the gods," still at this day performs the sacred mirror dance before many a village shrine...
Страница 184 - For this have we refused to take honorable service, that we might be free to wreak vengeance upon our destroyer. Could we live to see the udonge * bloom, never again might we hope to meet the like good fortune.
Страница 50 - ... their parting utterances were exceedingly amusing, owing to the fact that both were somewhat maudlin from over-conviviality.

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