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82 Japanese Miscellany mato came to be known as the Land of the Dragon-fly; and eventually the name was ex- tended to the whole island. And the Dragon-fly remains an emblem of the Empire even to this day. In a literal sense, Japan well deserves to be called the Land of the Dragon-fly ; for, as Rein poetically declared, it is " a true Eldorado to the neuroptera-fancier." Probably no other country of either temperate zone possesses so many kinds of dragon-flies; and I doubt whether even the tropics can produce any dragon-flies more curi- ously beautiful than some of the Japanese species. The most wonderful dragon-fly that I ever saw was a Japanese Calepteryx, which I captured last summer in Shidzuoka. It was what the country-folk call a " black dragon-fly " ; but the color was really a rich deep purple. The long narrow wings, velvety purple, seemed — even to touch — like the petals of some marvellous flower. The purple body, slender as a darning-needle, was decorated with dotted lines of dead gold. The head and thorax were vivid gold-green ; but the eyes were pure globes of burnished gold. The legs were fringed on the inner side with in- describably delicate spines, set at right angles to
Dragon-flies 83 the limb, like the teeth of a fairy-comb. So exquisite was the creature that 1 felt a kind of re- morse for having disturbed it, — felt as if I had been meddling with something belonging to the gods; — and 1 quickly returned it to the shrub on which it had been reposing. . . . This particular kind of dragon-fly is said to haunt only the neigh- borhood of a clear stream near the town of Yaidzu. It is, however, but one of many lovely varieties. But the more exquisite dragon-flies are infre- quently seen ; and they seldom figure in Japanese literature; — and 1 can attempt to interest my reader only in the poetry and the folklore of dragon-flies. 1 propose to discourse of dragon- flies in the old-fashioned Japanese way ; and the little that I have been able to learn upon the subject, — with the help of quaint books and of long-forgotten drawings, — mostly relates to the commoner species. But before treating of dragon-fly literature, it will be necessary to say something regarding dragon-fly nomenclature. Old Japanese books profess to name about fifty kinds ; and the Chufu-
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A JAPANESE MISCELLANY By LAFCADIO H
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Illustrations " Oyama no, 0-Kon San
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Of a Promise Kept
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Studies Here and There
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