Note 2 — LAFCADIO HEARN (continued 3)
Reading edition
Sodé suri-ō no mo Tashō no en yo, Mashité futari ga Fukai naka.
Allusion is here made to the old Buddhist proverb: Sodé no furi-awasé mo tashō no en,—"Even the touching of sleeves in passing is caused by some affinity operating from former lives."