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and, elated with joy, was taking it to the village danced to an exquisite music describing her
to show it to his neighbours when a fairy moon- life in the moon. Hakuryo was transported
maiden appeared before him and assured him by the fairy dance, and prayed that the wind
that it was hers and that it was not to be kept might close her passage in the clouds and so
by a man. However, the fisherman wanted cause her to linger a while longer on earth,
to keep it as a treasure, to be handed down But his wish was in vain, for the celestial dancer
to his posterity as a souvenir of the visit of a rose from the sandy beach even as she danced,
heavenly being, but moved by her sorrow, he and flying to the north like a fleecy cloud dis-
said he would return the robe if she would dance appeared beyond the high peak of Fuji-no-yama.
for him, for he had often heard of a celestial ---
dance. She consented, but said that she could The Nihon Gakai held its nineteenth annual
not dance without the robe. The suspicious exhibition of paintings at the Takenodai,
fisherman was afraid that she might fly to Uyeno Park, and showed some excellent examples
heaven without dancing. Thereupon the moon- by contemporary artists in the Japanese style,
maiden answered, " Heaven knows no lie." Noteworthy among them were Snow and Rain
Ashamed of mortal weakness, the fisherman by Moroboshi-Raisho, Spring Landscape by
returned her the robe, which she donned and Komuro-Suiun, and a similar subject by Hata-
• EVENING MOON " (PAIR OF SCREENS)
[124
BY IKEGAMI-SHUHO
and, elated with joy, was taking it to the village danced to an exquisite music describing her
to show it to his neighbours when a fairy moon- life in the moon. Hakuryo was transported
maiden appeared before him and assured him by the fairy dance, and prayed that the wind
that it was hers and that it was not to be kept might close her passage in the clouds and so
by a man. However, the fisherman wanted cause her to linger a while longer on earth,
to keep it as a treasure, to be handed down But his wish was in vain, for the celestial dancer
to his posterity as a souvenir of the visit of a rose from the sandy beach even as she danced,
heavenly being, but moved by her sorrow, he and flying to the north like a fleecy cloud dis-
said he would return the robe if she would dance appeared beyond the high peak of Fuji-no-yama.
for him, for he had often heard of a celestial ---
dance. She consented, but said that she could The Nihon Gakai held its nineteenth annual
not dance without the robe. The suspicious exhibition of paintings at the Takenodai,
fisherman was afraid that she might fly to Uyeno Park, and showed some excellent examples
heaven without dancing. Thereupon the moon- by contemporary artists in the Japanese style,
maiden answered, " Heaven knows no lie." Noteworthy among them were Snow and Rain
Ashamed of mortal weakness, the fisherman by Moroboshi-Raisho, Spring Landscape by
returned her the robe, which she donned and Komuro-Suiun, and a similar subject by Hata-
• EVENING MOON " (PAIR OF SCREENS)
[124
BY IKEGAMI-SHUHO