草枕 10

鏡が池で馬子の源平さんから、何代か前の志保田の嬢様の身投げ事件を聞く。それ以来志保田家には祟りがとりついているそうな.。oｏＯ(゜ペ／)／ひゃ

• 深山椿の描写が示唆的

Whenever I see a wild camellia growing in the heart of the mountains, I am reminded of a beautiful enchantress who lures men on with her dark eyes, and then in a flash injects her smiling venom into their veins. By the time they realise that they have been tricked it is too late, No sooner had I caught sight of the camellias opposite than I wished I had not done so. Theirs was no ordinary red. It was a colour of eye-searing intensity, which contained some indefinable quality.