Child-life in Japan and Japanese child stories (1901)
Ayrton, Matilda Chaplin, Mrs. 1846-1883, Griffis, William Elliot, 1843-1928, ed · Boston and New York, D.C. Heath & co. · leaf 43
is one of the daughters of a chiefmagistrate of Odawara-cho. She was marriedto a salt merchant. He was a man fond of dis-play, and he thought how he would dress her thisyear. He said to the dyer, Please dye this bro-cade and the brocade for the middle dress intoseven- or eight-fold dresses; and the… … 20 Child-Life in Japan. Then to fill up the rhyme come the words, Chokin, chokera, kokin, kokera, and the talegoes on: Crossing this bridge the girl was-^^^^^^^^^^ struck here and there, and the tea-house girlslaughed. Put out ofcountenance by this ridi-cule, she drowned herselfin the river Karas,…
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