id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 15320 Hearn, Lafcadio The Romance of the Milky Way, and Other Studies & Stories .txt text/plain 33318 2310 80 Of old it was said: 'The River of Heaven is the Ghost of There can be little doubt that the Japanese festival called rain that happens to fall on Tanabata night is called _Namida no Amé_, selection of ancient Japanese poems, treating of the Tanabata legend. Japanese life and thought twelve hundred years ago. [Footnote 8: _Hisakata-no_ is a "pillow-word" used by the old poets in [Footnote 12: That is to say, "wife." In archaic Japanese the word (_zuma_), in ancient Japanese, signified either wife or husband; and [Footnote 17: In ancient Japanese the word _séko_ signified either [_The love-longing of one whole year having ended to-night, [Footnote 21: At different times, in the history of Japanese female [Footnote 57: The Japanese word for granite is _mikagé_; and there is To old Japanese fancy the falling of these heavy red flowers was like [Footnote 62: Two Japanese words are written, in _kana_, as "mé"--one ./cache/15320.txt ./txt/15320.txt