6/13 He implores the people who had been jeering him to lead him thither, that he may spit in her face and curse her. A song, accompanied by the twanging of a samisen and the clanging of tamtams, is sung by three geishas. Kyoto brings in Osaka to admire her beauty, and sets a high price upon it. Iris awakes and speculates in philosophical vein touching the question of her existence. |