第四百八十八篇第四百八十八篇Story Four Hundred and Eighty-Eight

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Story Four Hundred and Eighty-Eight · Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

The Scholar from Eastern Zhejiang

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: in a great family's garden by day, a barefoot, loose-haired scholar in a white robe lies belly-down across the rope net over a stone-lined tiger pit, his head and arms hanging down, while a tiger crouches below looking up at him and a straw-hatted gardener with a wooden pail stands at the edge, startled, with pines, a garden rock, a wall with a round gate and distant roofs behind.