Green Willow : and other Japanese fairy tales (1910)
James, Grace, Goble, Warwick, ill · London : Macmillan and Co. · leaf 52
nceforth I shall be an ordinary kettle,nothing more or less. Oh, my dear Bumbuku, what shall I do ? cried the poor tinker in tears. 23 THE TEA-KETTLE m I think I should like to be given to the templeof Morinji, as a very sacred treasure, says the tea-kettle. It never spoke or moved again. So the… … - IVTHE PEONY LANTERN IN Yedo there dwelt a samurai called Hagiwara.He was a samurai of the hatamoto, which is of allthe ranks of samurai the most honourable. Hepossessed a noble figure and a very beautiful face,and was beloved of many a lady of Yedo, bothopenly and in secret. For himself, being…
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