jingoro

Updated: May 23, 2025

Another student conducts me to the home of one of his relatives, that I may see a cat made of wood, said to have been chiselled by the famed Hidari Jingoro a cat crouching and watching, and so life-like that real cats 'have been known to put up their backs and spit at it.

Lafcadio Hearn - Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan : Second Series