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Updated: May 7, 2025
A woman's voice ringing through the night, chanting in a tone of singular sweetness words of which each syllable comes through my open window like a wavelet of flute-sound. My Japanese servant, who speaks a little English. has told me what they mean, those words: 'Amma-kamishimo-go-hyakmon!
And she sings also that the weary and the sick may call her in. 'Amma-kamishimo-go-hyakmon! The saddest melody, but the sweetest voice. Her cry signifies that for the sum of 'five hundred mon' she will come and rub your weary body 'above and below, and make the weariness or the pain go away.
And suddenly a sound solemn, profound, mighty peals to my ears over the roofs of the town, the voice of the tsurigane, the great temple-bell of Nogiyama. All too short the day seemed. And I feel at last the coming of that drowsiness which always follows enchantment. 'Amma-kamishimo-go-hyakmon!
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