residence ; a tiny stream of running water passed
underneath the plain sloping walls of the wizard’s abode,
separating from its clean and well sun-blinded architecture
the mallows and nasturtiums, the trailing roses
and the potted stocks which might almost have been
collected into that little space together to give the same
The Na-chung Chos-kyong from the north.
twinge of memory to an English visitor that the
whitened houses, three hundred yards away, must have
conveyed to men of Italy. A large maple tree overhangs
the entrance to the house.
The interior of this little residence is of a dainty
perfection that you could hardly match in Japan, and
instinctively one felt that one should take off one’s
boots before treading on these exquisite inlaid wooden
