kong-fu-tze

Updated: May 15, 2025

And she presented him with an exquisite and curious little thing, a paper-weight in likeness of a couchant lion, wrought from a jade-stone yellow as that created by a rainbow in honor of Kong-fu-tze. Tenderly the boy kissed the gift and the beautiful hand that gave it. "May the Spirits punish me," he vowed, "if ever I knowingly give you cause to reproach me, sweetheart!"

Lafcadio Hearn - Some Chinese Ghosts