The Romance of the Milky Way - And Other Studies & Stories by Lafcadio Hearn
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fact.... The following verses about the Rokuro-Kubi have been selected
from a group of twenty in the _Ky[=o]ka Hyaku-Monogatari_:-- Nemidaré no Nagaki kami woba Furi-wakété, Chi hiro ni nobasu Rokuro-Kubi kana! [_Oh!... Shaking loose her long hair disheveled by sleep, the Rokuro-Kubi stretches her neck to the length of a thousand fathoms!_] "Atama naki Bakémono nari"--to Rokuro-Kubi, Mité odorokan Onoga karada we. [_Will not the Rokuro-Kubi, viewing with_ _astonishment her own body (left behind) cry out, "Oh, what a headless goblin have you become!_"] Tsuka-no-ma ni Hari we tsutawaru, Rokuro-Kubi Kéta-kéta warau-- Kao no kowasa yo! [_Swiftly gliding along the roof-beam (and among the props |
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