Citations:paulownia


 * 1964 &mdash; If we get a tree, let’s get a maple or a paulownia, with thin branches and large leaves ... something with leaves that will flutter in the wind. &mdash; Kobo Abé, The Woman in the Dunes, Chapter 29, 1962. Translated from Japanese by E. Dale Saunders.
 * 1972-1986 &mdash; The fine point about any such oblong brazier is the quality and brilliance of the gloss acquired by years of patient polishing, but this brazier is not only undetermined as to its material, which could as well be cherry as zelkova and paulownia as cherry, but has never once been polished. &mdash; Natsume Soseki, I Am a Cat, 1905-1907. Translated from Japanese by Aiko Ito and Graeme Wilson.