Word: kimono
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...laughing matter, took counsel together. They thought of a way to make their father come home. One night when there was no moon they stole out of the house and made for the railroad track, each hiding a scroll of paper under the butterfly filigree of his kimono. An express train approached. The lads cast themselves down before it. Policemen, finding letters in the bloody tatters that covered their bodies, informed Shoemaker Tokuriki that it was now his duty to live with their mother. (Whether or not he complied, despatches failed to state...
SAYONARA -John Paris -Boni & Liveright ($2.00). Another Rain, in a Japanese setting: geisha girls, Anglican bishops, cherry blossoms, suicide. The author of the controversial Kimono has again scratched off the customary Oriental glamour and uncovered a realistic-at times amusing, at times sordid-picture of Japanese life. Beneath the rather melodramatic narrative runs an undercurrent of real seriousness, a sense of inscrutable, unconquerable differences between East and West, a shadow of the intangible fatalism of the Orient that is at once its peril and its charm...
Nagako had many garments made in Kioto: a kimono of scarlet and purple silk carrying the embroidered chrysanthemum crest; a skirt of intricate design; an outer dress of purple silk with designs of pine trees and tortoises, symbols of long life. She carried a fan of gilded wood on which were painted varicolored flowers. (Her trousseau, invaluable, contained a kimono of twelve thicknesses...