The Calcutta Review, Volumes 134-435University of Calcutta, 1912 |
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Page 70
... night , you can tell the colour of their hair , or even the figures woven in the stuffs they wear , when assuming the forms of men or women , and that it is clearly visible at one ken ( six feet ) . Remembering this , Rokugo approached ...
... night , you can tell the colour of their hair , or even the figures woven in the stuffs they wear , when assuming the forms of men or women , and that it is clearly visible at one ken ( six feet ) . Remembering this , Rokugo approached ...
Page 73
... again tried to save the tree by offering others of his own in exchange therefor . But his proposals were not agreed to this time . One night , when the workmen began to cut the tree , Higo sat up and THE FOLKLORE OF JAPAN . 73.
... again tried to save the tree by offering others of his own in exchange therefor . But his proposals were not agreed to this time . One night , when the workmen began to cut the tree , Higo sat up and THE FOLKLORE OF JAPAN . 73.
Page 75
... night walking in the peony- bed of her father's garden , her foot slipped ; and she would have fallen into the water , had not a young man ap- peared , as if by magic , caught her and disappeared . She at once fell in love with him ...
... night walking in the peony- bed of her father's garden , her foot slipped ; and she would have fallen into the water , had not a young man ap- peared , as if by magic , caught her and disappeared . She at once fell in love with him ...
Page 80
... night . When the pillars were , however , finished , they began to give way , and were finally swept away by a flood ... nights , a spectral fire flitted about that pillar between the hours of two and three . * Human Sacrifice . - The ...
... night . When the pillars were , however , finished , they began to give way , and were finally swept away by a flood ... nights , a spectral fire flitted about that pillar between the hours of two and three . * Human Sacrifice . - The ...
Page 83
... night ; but he had to return home before dawn . In those days , the cock was the Great Deity's confidential servant whose duty it was to crow lustily in order to inform him of the time for returning . But on one occasion , Chanticleer ...
... night ; but he had to return home before dawn . In those days , the cock was the Great Deity's confidential servant whose duty it was to crow lustily in order to inform him of the time for returning . But on one occasion , Chanticleer ...
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