makimono

Updated: May 19, 2025

So I cornered Peter and put him through his paces. I began by telling him that I didn't seem to know a great deal about him. "The closed makimono," he cryptically retorted, "is the symbol of wisdom." I was ashamed to ask just what that meant, so I tried another tack. "Folks are thrown pretty intimately together, in this frontier life, like worms in a bait-tin.

Arthur Stringer - The Prairie Mother