"Youth" written by Yojiro Ishizaka. Trapisutinu (women's monastery) on the suburban hill

"Youth" written by Yojiro Ishizaka. Around fishing port

"Youth" written by Yojiro Ishizaka. Ferry sailing away

"Youth" written by Yojiro Ishizaka. At Iai Joshi Women's Academy, the set of the novel

"Youth" written by Yojiro Ishizaka. Church constructed by Missionary Nicholai

Two Women on the Hill

"Sobo" written by Tatsuzo Ishikawa. Breakfast at the dining room in the ship, a praying young woman

"A Dark Night's Passing" written by Naoya Shiga. Renjoji temple on the halfway up Mt. Oyama

SKETCHES BY DAUMIER 3: －Your client is a scoundrel who's murdered six women, and you're counting on extenuating circumstances. －Why of course!... the jury is composed entirely of married men

MUSICAL SKETCHES 8: － Oh! sir what talent mademoiselle your daughter possesses... what talent, what talent! － In our family, we are all superlatively consituted for music... I myself, in my youth, was of first-rate skill on the clarinet

(Left) The little village on the far mountainside was already out of sight, and spring was coming around again. The grape trees were like large ailing snakes creeping under the coping stones of the wall. A brown light moved about in the tepid air. The void created by the selfsame every day is likely to chop down even the young trees that were left behind. In this everyday life, a thicket of trees protrudes like a boulder. (Right) The village I lived in has never been thought of as so small. The sun showed itself. The tall poplar forest looks like a beach being blown about by the wind. I grow dizzy just watching that seamless succession. If I can manage to get drunk on this succession of unchanging days, I can also grow to feel like I have taken down an elephant or snake. He differentiated things in this way, like a fluttering butterfly

JOURNEY TO CHINA 2: THE PASSPORT. The foreigner who visits China is submitted to an indispensable formality; he receives a slip of paper on which is written the age he wants to indicate, the profession he says he pursues and the place where it pleases him to appoint his birth; all that followed by a description of particulars which applies to everybody, after which, against a consideration of two francs, the Chinese government is deemed to lend him succour and assistance for one year

Ancient History 6: Penelope's nights. Of her absent husband the adorable profile, / Always shines like a star to her gentle eyes / But to drag on for three years, and her trick and her web / ...She must have had an intrepid thread (Odessy Ch[apter] II. Indiscreet translation by Mr. Villemain)

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 46: A EULOGISTIC ARTICLE: －Read the article I’ve drafted on your work... I think you’ll be satisfied. －The lady reading－ “We have just become acquinted with the volume published by Mme. Eulalie de Bois-Fleuri, and we can announce loudly that France includes one more Blockhead!...” －What Blockhead... but I wrote muse... rogue of a printer!..

JOURNEY TO CHINA 6: CHINESE PROPRIETY. In this country they have a singular idea of propriety!... the most chaste young girl, the most upstanding woman do not blush, by a prodigious exaggeration of forms, to call attention to a certain quarter to which they give the appearance of a veritable air-balloon... they call that a bustle..

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