Kotto: Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs

The eighteenth day of the sixth month, being the festival of the Suga-jinja,[21] we were invited to my father's house. But as the hair-dresser did not come to dress my hair at t...

Then Kihei quickly made arrangements for the establishment of a branch house in another city; and he sent Rokubei there with the clerk, to take charge. And thereafter the _ikiry...

I. The Legend of Yurei-Daki II. In a Cup of Tea III. Common Sense IV. Ikiryō V. Shiryō VI. The Story of O-Kamé VII. Story of a Fly VIII. Story of a Pheasant IX. The Story of Chū...

"It was in the early part of last spring--about five months ago--that I first began to go out at night, on account of a love-affair. One evening, when I was returning to the yas...

[Footnote 3: The following story of a tree-spirit is typical:--In the garden of a Samurai named Satsuma Shichizaëmon, who lived in the village of Echigawa in the province of Ōmi...

The tremendous hypotheses of physical and psychical evolution no longer seem to me hypotheses: I should never dream of doubting them. I have ceased to wonder at the growth of Li...

The _Genji-botaru_ is the largest of Japanese fireflies,--the largest species, at least, in Japan proper, not including the Loochoo Islands. It is found in almost every part of...

... I wonder whether it was because of the sorrow that I suffered--my face and limbs became slightly swollen during the fortnight[51] after my boy's death.--It was nothing very...

The memory of animals, in regard to certain forms of relative experience, is strangely weak and dim. But the organic memory of the animal,--the memory of experience accumulated...