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Updated: May 14, 2025
So cunning the art of the ancient gardener who contrived all this, and who has been sleeping for a hundred years under the cedars of Gesshoji, that the illusion can be detected only from the zashiki by the presence of an ishidoro or stone lamp, upon the island. The size of the ishidoro betrays the false perspective, and I do not think it was placed there when the garden was made.
Others say that in his house there is a special zashiki, or guest-room for foxes; and that there, once in each month, a great banquet is given to hundreds of Hito-kitsune. But Chinomiya-no-Wakuri, as they call him, canaffordto laugh at all these tales. He is a refined man, highly respected in cultivated circles where superstition never enters
Kano turned sourly. "Why," he thought, "in Shaka's name, could n't she have been a son?" He rose, however, shaking off his wooden clogs so that they remained upon the path below, and followed Umè to the zashiki, or main room of the house, with the best view of the garden. The tea was delicious in its first delicate infusion; the pickled plums most stimulating to a morning appetite.
All become motionless and silent as statues fifteen fine bronzes ranged along the wall of the zashiki, -when some pretty geisha begins one of those histrionic dances which, to the Western stranger, seem at first mysterious as a performance of witchcraft but which really are charming translations of legend and story into the language of living grace and the poetry of woman's smile.
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