A JAPANESE FAN.
Carved in odorous camphorwood, With marvellous patience and Eastern skill.
Every inch of the slender sticks Deft .brown hands have contrived to fill WithVouderful tales of love and war, Or songs of the spring in far. Japan, Praising the snow, of the cherry blossoms — This-was the fan of Osadi San. Oft unfurling the dainty thing, Delicate, line, and thin as lace, She held its beautiful openwork Between the moon and her flowerlike face. - - - "Where is she now? By a temple gray That might have been built when the world began, She sleeps in peace like a folded bud; And here Is the fan of Osadi San. From the lacquered chest where it used to lie • With bordered sashes, kimonos quaint And silken sandals, It crossed the sea, Hinting still of hhe fragrance faint Of musk and attar and strange pomades, Such as they use lv old Japan; And a. fair American maiden now Wav.es the fan of Osadi San. MINNA IRVING, , In "Manser's."
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 212, 5 September 1903, Page 1 (Supplement)
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166A JAPANESE FAN. Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 212, 5 September 1903, Page 1 (Supplement)
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