第四百一十七篇第四百一十七篇Story Four Hundred and Seventeen

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

Ren Xiu

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: on the deck of a moored boat under a woven mat awning at night, a young scholar and two gamblers crouch around a low table with a bowl of dice, a great heap of strings of copper cash piled beside the scholar, while an older merchant stands in the awning's opening, hand at his beard, watching; a hanging lamp, a mooring post, the water, and a forest of masts under a pale moon fill the background.