A Japanese miscellany - University of Oregon

Songs of Japanese Children 229
" That is not blood, it is only bmi (rouge).i
The rouge of Osaka has indeed a fine color
Very fine is the color, — therefore the price is dear.''
And now, by way of conclusion, let me state
that in preparing this rather lengthy paper I could
only hope to furnish the reader with a new
experience, — an experience somewhat like that
of passing, for the first time, through Japanese
streets.
The first general impression of a Japanese
street must be, for most people, even more
vague than strange. Unless you happen to
have senses of superlative delicacy, — unless you
possess a visual faculty like that of Pierre Loti,
for example, — you can remember very little,
and understand almost nothing, of what you
looked at while passing through that street.
Nevertheless you will find yourself surprised and
pleased ; — you will feel, without knowing why,
the sensation of the elfish and the odd, — the
charm of the unexpected.
Well, in all the child-songs which I have quoted,
perhaps less than half-a-dozen fairly arrested your
attention ; and of the rest you probably remem-
* Bint Is used chiefly to color the lips.
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