第一百一十七篇第一百一十七篇Story One Hundred and Seventeen

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

The Foreign Monks

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: In the guest room of a monastery, a shaven-headed Chinese monk with prayer beads looks up in wonder with one sleeve raised, a curly-bearded foreign monk in a draped cloth and ear rings stands at the centre with his open palm lifted toward a small niche high on the wall where a tiny pagoda shines in rays of light, and a second foreign monk stands smiling with his hands in his sleeves, while a lattice window, a bench, a low table with a teapot, cups and incense burner, a rush cushion and a courtyard with a ginkgo tree seen through the open doorway fill the room.