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“What?” Gao Yang asked.
“Turn around,” Qing Ling said.
“Oh.”
Gao Yang slowly turned around in the water, facing the thick screen separating the women’s and men’s areas.
“Look at the screen,” Qing Ling instructed.
Gao Yang looked up to see a landscape painting done in the style of ukiyo-e[1]. The main subject of the painting was the red torii erected on top of a steep slope. Through the torii, the not so distant Mount Tamaougi could be made out.
The scope of the painting was vast, the landscape quiet and wistful with a hint of dignity and solemnity.
“Where is this place?” Gao Yang asked.
“Don’t know.” Qing Ling shook her head. “It must be a mountain near Mount Tamaougi. Is this a shrine?”
“Although there is only one...
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