 | Lafcadio Hearn - 1910 - 298 pages
...than a feature of the scenery,—a rural form related to nature as closely as rocks and trees,—a something that came into existence only as a manifestation...words by which these queer shapes can be sufficiently described,—much less any language able to communicate the peculiar impression which they make. Those... | |
 | Lafcadio Hearn - American literature - 1922 - 480 pages
...tinted, the isolated country yashiro may seem less like a > Usually hinoki (Chamacyparis oitusa). 3 work of joinery than a feature of the scenery, —...weirdness is a question about which I should like to theorize some day: at present I shall venture only to say that Shinto shrines evoke such a feeling.... | |
 | Lafcadio Hearn - 1922 - 468 pages
...tinted, the isolated country yashiro may seem less like a 1 Usually hinoki (Chamacyparis oblusa). 3 work of joinery than a feature of the scenery, —...weirdness is a question about which I should like to theorize some day: at present I shall venture only to say that Shinto shrines evoke such a feeling.... | |
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So shaped and so tinted, the isolated country yashiro may seem less like a work of joinery than a feature of the scenery, — a rural form related to nature as closely as rocks and trees, — a something that came into existence only as a manifestation... 