foot-breadths

Updated: July 14, 2026

And always over the shops little strips of blue-tiled roof slope back to the paper-screened chamber of upper floors; and from all the facades hang draperies dark blue, or white, or crimson foot-breadths of texture covered with beautiful Japanese lettering, white on blue, red on black, black on white. But all this flies by swiftly as a dream.

Lafcadio Hearn - Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan : First Series