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Doubtless the belief itself is the cause that cases of shinju do commonly occur in series of three. Many indeed retain, through all the period of their terrible servitude, a refinement of manner, a delicacy of sentiment, and a natural modesty that seem, under such conditions, as extraordinary as they are touching. Only yesterday a case of shinju startled this quiet city.
But now my heart is not a heart; and I must quickly go. And so I shall lay down my writing-brush. 'It is written so clumsily, this. 'Kane thrice prostrates herself before you. 'From KANE. 'To -SAMA. 'Well, it is a characteristic shinju letter, my friend comments, after a moment's silence, replacing the frail white paper in its envelope. 'So I thought it would interest you.
"In the First Ward of Nichi-Hommachi, in far-famed Osaka O the sorrow of this tale of shinju! "Tamayone, aged nineteen, to see her was to love her, for Takejiro, the young workman. "For the time of two lives they exchange mutual vows O the sorrow of loving a courtesan! "On their arms they tattoo a Raindragon, and the character 'Bamboo' thinking never of the troubles of life....
Then the yama-no-mono folk remove the planks which separate the pair making the two coffins into one; above the reunited dead the earth is heaped; and a haka, bearing in chiselled letters the story of their fate, and perhaps a little poem, is placed above the mingling of their dust. There is a fatalistic belief that if one shinju occurs among the inmates of a joroya, two more are sure to follow.
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