A Japanese Nightingale (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Japanese NightingaleOut in the bay that the sun had left was a tiny island, and on this a Jap anese business man, who must also have been an artist, had built a tea house and laid out a garden. Such an island! In the sorcerous moon light, one might easily believe it the witch -work of an Oriental Merlin. Running in every direction were nar row jinrikisha roads, which crossed bewildering little creeks, spanned by entrancing bridges. These were round and high, and curved in the centre, and clinging' vines and creeping, nameless flowers crawled up the sides and twined about the tiny steps which ascended to the bridges. After crossing a bridge shaped thus, a straight bridge is forever an outrage to the eye and sense. And all along the beach of this island was pure White sand, which looked weirdly whiter Where the moon beams loitered and played hide-and seek under the tree-shadows.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.