4 Shadowings 



things. But a Japanese friend explains the 

 miracle thus: 



" The spirit -bride was really formed out of the 

 tan^aku. So it is possible that the real girl did 

 not know anything about the meeting at the 

 temple of Benten. When she wrote those beau 

 tiful characters upon the tanqaku, something of 

 her spirit passed into them. Therefore it was 

 possible to evoke from the writing the double 

 of the writer." 



