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Lafcadio Hearn, Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan,series 1, 1894. https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/omeka/files/original/3dedfef18c69aa88be4c9a5670a75a1a.pdf "Altogether, with her snowy raiment and white flesh and passionless face, she seems rather a beautiful living statue than a Japanese maiden. And all the while the weird flutes sob and shrill, and the muttering of the drums is like an incantation. What I have seen is called the Dance of the Miko, the Divineress."