kaze-kuruma

Updated: May 24, 2025

Here are little clay tortoises which swim about when you put them into water one rin for two. Here is a box of toy-soldiers samurai in full armour nine rin only. Here is a Kaze-Kuruma, or wind-wheel a wooden whistle with a paper wheel mounted before the orifice by which the breath is expelled, so that the wheel turns furiously when the whistle is blown three rin.

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