sign-draperies

Updated: February 10, 2026

But alas! it is now forbidden in the great seaports to launch the shoryobune, 'the boats of the blessed ghosts. It is so narrow, the Street of the Aged Men, that by stretching out one's arms one can touch the figured sign-draperies before its tiny shops on both sides at once.

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