By kuruma this little journey occupies nearly two hours and a half, though the distance is scarcely seven miles, the road being one of the worst in all Izumo.
Taking the shortest route, one goes first to Mitsu-ura from Matsue, either by kuruma or on foot.
I only yelled to the man in Japanese to get to the other side of the road; instead of which he simply backed his kuruma against a wall on the lower side of the curve, with the shafts outwards.
At the rate I was going, there wasn't room even to swerve; and the next minute one of the shafts of that kuruma was in my horse's shoulder.
One day, as I was driving down from the Bluff, I saw an empty kuruma coming up on the wrong side of the curve.
During the afternoon the narrow kuruma road merges into a broad, newly made macadam, as fine a piece of road as I have seen the whole world round.
She scolded the kuruma men in her shrill voice, giving a dozen instructions in one sentence, and pretending anger at their answering jests.
She continued to watch furtively, in a sort of terror, the tall figure as it was assisted from the kuruma and led, shambling, through the house.
Some one outside called that the bride's kurumawas at the gate.
In further consolation, the kurumamen turned out well on the road, and bowled us along right merrily.
We had made arrangements overnight for a boat, not without difficulty, and in the morning we started in kuruma for the point of embarkation.
The sunshine quickened us all, and our kuruma took the road like a flock of birds; for jinrikisha men in company run as wild geese fly, crisscross.
As our kuruma men knew the place, while we did not, we let them choose the inn.
It was while I was sipping tea, waiting for a fresh relay of kuruma at Namerigawa, that Yejiro rushed in to announce that another foreigner was resting at an inn a little further up town.
Though the cars were some time in starting, so that I got well ahead of them, they could not admit me on the road, when my baggage kurumaturned out to be too slow, because I had not bought a ticket at the office.
Fortunately they needed but a short rest, and as the descent on the Noto side was much steeper than on the other, half an hour's walk brought us to the level of kuruma once more.
Go quickly, Bunshichi, call a kuruma with two runners.
Tetsujo dismissed his kuruma men, shook off his shoes, and remained seated on the mats, still with folded arms, still deep in thought.
As Yuki's kuruma rattled from the gate, he went back musingly alone toward the Cha no yu rooms.
Arrange me quickly, Ine, quickly, and call a swift kuruma like Prince Hagane's.
As if by invocation, the kuruma and the grinning coolies appeared.
The faint, low crackle and clatter of a kuruma on gravel, a vehicle slowly drawn, came apparently from the far end of the garden, just under the spot where the moon rose.
That afternoon, when Yuki stepped into the big double kuruma where Tetsujo was already seated, she had never, in spite of sleeplessness and bad dreams, looked more beautiful.
I will not be long absent, and, Meta, should he come, send quickly a runner and a kuruma for me.
But since you are here, I wish you to order my kuruma with two swift runners.
Kuruma roads end here, and if you wish to go any farther, you must either walk, ride, or be carried.
I continue hereafter to use the Japanese word kuruma instead of the Chinese word Jin-ri-ki-sha.
It was a miserable day, with fog concealing the mountains and lying heavily on the sea, but as no one expected rain I sent the kuruma back to Mororan and secured horses.
They dexterously carried the kuruma through, on the shoulders of four, and showed extreme anxiety that neither it nor I should get wet.
I call it the kuruma because it is the only one, and is kept by the Government for the conveyance of hospital patients.
It was a terrible road, with two severe mountain-passes to cross, and I not only had to walk nearly the whole way, but to help the man with the kuruma up some of the steepest places.
He said indignantly, "I never thought that when you'd got the Kaitakushi kuruma you'd go off the road into those woods!
Yesterday was beautiful, and, dispensing for the first time with Ito's attendance, I took a kuruma for the day, and had a very pleasant excursion into a cul de sac in the mountains.
The lights of the town vanish behind us;--the kuruma is rolling along a country-road.
For the first time I notice that the road is black,--black sand and cinders apparently, volcanic cinders: the wheels of the kuruma and the feet of the runners sink into it with a crunching sound.
The horse is now attached to the kuruma with ropes, and I am able to advance more rapidly.
Akira=:--The name of the guide who has drawn the kuruma in which the foreigner has come to the village.
We were now to give up the kuruma and to travel by the kago, which, you will remember, I promised to describe.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kuruma" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
