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DAUGHTERS OF NIJO
A ROMANCE OF JAPAN
BY ONOTO WATANNA
Author of “A Japanese Nightingale,” “The Heart of Hyacinthe,
“etc.
With many Illustrations and Decorations in Colors by KUJOKICHI SANO
Cloth 12mo $1.50
Two delicate and dainty love stories woven into one narrative. The plot turns on the marvellous resemblance between two step-sisters, the one a royal princess, the other supposedly the daughter of middle-class people, but really also a “Daughter of Nijo”—Nijo being a prince of Japan. By an odd fatality each of the sisters loves the man to whom the other has been betrothed by the relatives. The sisters meet one another for the first time, and discover this. The happy inspiration occurs to them to exchange clothes and places; but they are careful not to inform their respective lovers until after a good many things have happened. The tale, writes one reader, “might almost be called a Japanese `Romeo and Juliet,' without the tragedy.” It is a pure romantic story, alive with genuine charm, and written in excellent English, with just a touch of naïve quaintness.
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