第一百一十三篇第一百一十三篇Story One Hundred and Thirteen

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Story One Hundred and Thirteen · Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

A Proclamation to the Ghosts

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: in daylight outside a city gate beside a pool, a young scholar in a soft cap and wide-sleeved gown raises his brush to write in neat columns on a long whitewashed wall, while a plain, ragged-jacketed traveller with a cloth-wrapped head holds a wooden bucket and gazes up at the writing, with a gate tower, stone bank, willows and reeds around them.