| | 1 | Author: | Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954 | Add | | | Title: | The Pot of Paint  | | | | Published: | 2004 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | To a Portuguese great-grandfather the face of Moonshine
owed its peculiar beauty. Moonshine had heard of this
ancestor; a blot he was to her upon the proud Japanese
genealogy of her family, despite the fact that he had been
one of those remarkable Portuguese who brought to Japan the
first knowledge of Western science. When her Japanese
friends remarked that her eyes were yellow instead of black
and her hair waved barbarously, she would apologize very
humbly. But to the few foreigners whom she chanced to meet
in Nagasaki, Moonshine traded on her nationality in order to
win their favor. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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