第二百七十五篇第二百七十五篇Story Two Hundred and Seventy-Five

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閻羅薨

阎罗薨

Story Two Hundred and Seventy-Five · Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

The Death of Yama

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: by day in the main hall of a provincial yamen, a tearful, bearded official in a black gauze cap kneels with clasped hands before a lower official who sits leaning back in an armchair with one palm raised to decline, two attendants standing behind the chair, with a pine-and-sun screen, a lattice window and a writing table behind them, and an open doorway at the left showing sacks of grain by a cart in the courtyard.