Word: lotuses
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...frequency of Hsi's seductions, they tend to grow somewhat wearisome. More diverting is the spirited account of Hsi's relations with his six wives. They comprise an amazing harem, a-seethe with complex jealousies and intrigues which mostly originate with a voluptuous, canny beauty named Gold Lotus, who knows how to lead Hsi around by the nose...
Lest readers doubt the author's moral purpose, Hsi's only son is clawed to death by Gold Lotus' cat. Hsi himself dies in his prime from an overdose of aphrodisiac pills...
Other festivities at chieh-chi later in the year: "Presentation of wheat delicacies by married daughters to their parents. . . . Sacrifices to ancestors. . . . Mothers giving summer clothes to married daughters. . . . Tasting the season's fruits. . . . Playing with singing insects and fire-bees. . . . Appreciating lotus flowers...
...floor of the chamber were four gold vases, with covers in the form of human heads ornamented by blue and gold wigs; a large chalice shaped like a lotus flower, a long-necked bottle, a ewer, a spouted jug, a number of cups-all gold. Near the door was the skeleton of a small animal, apparently...
Last week these lines were announced as His Imperial Highness Emperor Hirohito's contribution (not eligible for a prize) to the annual Imperial Poetry Contest. Far more frankly propagandistic than Emperor Hirohito's efforts of past years, which always discreetly hid the Japanese Army under lotus leaves, branches of mimosa and the burgeoning cherry, this year's poem was released in an inopportune week -a week singularly illustrative of the famous lines on the same subject by that other imperialist, Rudyard Kipling. Only way the twain were meeting last week was on the opposite sides of angry...