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Plays of Old Japan

Note 65 — THE SUMIDA RIVER

Marie Carmichael Stopes translation

Page 88—The shadows of people are much more real in Japan than here. The shadow pictures that are continually thrown on the white paper screens separating the rooms must fill a large place in the memory of one who has lived in Japan; and, too, it is often only the feet of a passing noiseless maiden that one can see through the openwork base of these screens while one lies on the quilts on the matted floors.

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