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When the Empress Jingo became sole ruler she was determined to go to this country she had heard about in a dream; but as she was resolved to make her expedition no puny and tame affair, she called upon the Spirit of the Mountain to give her timber and iron for
Read record →Her fleet had not proceeded far when a mighty storm arose, so that the vessels crashed together and were likely to sink to the bottom of the sea
Read record →Before long the bamboo tube cracks with the intense heat
Read record →The Kappa is a river goblin, a hairy creature with the body of a tortoise and scaly limbs
Read record →Tobikawa, an ex-wrestler who lived in Matsue, spent his time in hunting and killing foxes
Read record →"The evening when I disappeared I heard some one shouting my name over and over again, and going out I discovered a black-robed monk, bawling 'Heizayemon!' Beside the monk stood a man of great stature; his face was red, and his dishevelled hair fell upon the g
Read record →Though they have human form, they are, at the same time, immortal, and adepts in the magical arts
Read record →The red man thus made answer: "You are evidently not aware that I am a Shojō, and that I live near the Sea Dragon's Palace
Read record →The Dragon is undoubtedly the most famous of mythical beasts, but, though Chinese in origin, it has become intimately associated with Japanese mythology
Read record →Wasōbiōye had spent five months riding on the back of a stork through total darkness, he at length reached a country where the sun shone again, where trees were hundreds of feet in girth, where weeds were as large as bamboos, and men sixty feet in height
Read record →Noguchi is very much under the influence of Walt Whitman, and it has left its impress upon his work; but that only tends to heighten the effect of the purely Japanese element
Read record →In many ways the tanka shows far more limitation than an English sonnet, and our verbose poets would do well to practise a form that engenders suppression and delicately gives suggestion the supreme place
Read record →Our National Anthem is very far from being poetry
Read record →est wind he heard the song of birds, and when autumn came he saw the gold colouring of the trees, while the piling and vanishing of snow caused him to think of "the ever waxing and waning volume of the world's sinfulness." He wrote in his charming Hō-jō-ki, th
Read record →A Shintō God who was mistaken for his deceased friends Ame-wake
Read record →Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio
Read record →One of the Seven Gods of Good Fortune, 115, 206; variants, Goddess of the Sea, of Love, of Beauty, and Eloquence, 115, 206; resembles Kwannon, 206; the Dragon and, 207; famous Island of Enoshima and the coming of, 207; temple of the "Birth Water" sacred to, 20
Read record →Legend of the Dragon, 221; flag shaped like a, 221; symbolism of the, 221; Bakin's reference to, 252 Cathay, Great
Read record →In Japan, looked on as a friendly animal, 268 Doll-s
Read record →Table showing the Age of the Gods, 393-396 Genno
Read record →ō, 109; describes peak of Mount Fuji as "the Supreme Altar of the Sun," 131; his narrative illustrating the power of Karma, 143; his story of a Japanese nun with a love for things in miniature, 158, 159; describes the Lotus of Paradise, 169; Japanese dolls des
Read record →Son of Kato Sayemon, 371-372 Ishiyama-dera
Read record →250; Thunder Animal of, 251; tea-drinking in England and, contrasted, 290, 291; orange first brought from the "Evergreen Land" to, 324; cause of becoming a world-Power, 329; her influence on Korea when Russia established a military outpost at Wiju, 329; Korea
Read record →One of the Oki Islands, to which Oribe Shima is banished, 333 Kamo, Lady
Read record →Ama-terasu, the Sun Goddess, climbs the, 23; Tsuki-yumi, the Moon God, also climbs the, 23 Lady of Mercy
Read record →A Shintō priest in charge of shrine of Ogawachi-Myōjin, 191; journey to Kyōto to appeal to Shōgun, 191; his strange sight of a beautiful woman's face in a well, 192; the Poison Dragon and, 193; the Soul of the Mirror and, 193-196 Matsunoo-dera
Read record →The Deity of Kitzuki; the Bronze Horse and, 275 Oho-yama
Read record →"Evergreen Land" appears as, in ballad of "The Fisher Boy Urashima," 324 Paradise, The Buddhist
Read record →The greatest of tea-masters, 296; the friend of Taiko-Hideyoshi, 296, 297 Rin-jin
Read record →Pine-tree conspicuous at the Festival of, 187 Sanjo, Princess
Read record →Loved by Tōtarō, 377-379; Tōtarō weds, 379 Tamate-Bako
Read record →The Maiden of, 313-315; Mubara and Chinu lovers of the Maiden of, 313-315 Underworld
Read record →of Murakumo given to, 54; meets and weds Princess Miyadzu, 55; Ainu rising quelled by, 54-56; passes through province of Owari, 57; reaches the province of Omi, 57; slays serpent in, 57 "Yang" and "Yin." The Chinese, correspond to In and Yo, 21 Yao, Emperor
Read record →About ten days after I had posted my letter, inclosing the flowers from Capri and Rome, my wife suddenly awoke in the middle of the night, and saw standing at the foot of her bed the form of the child's mother
Read record →kie Collins, as set forth in the preceding story--although I should be inclined to extend that opinion far enough to include the admission of the possibility that it was the actual Presence which so worked upon the mind of the percipient as to cause it to proj
Read record →Miss Anson was very fond of children, and possessed an unusual talent for entertaining them--and thus was a great favorite of my little daughter, who hailed her arrival with rapture
Read record →She had hardly begun her reading, however, when the newspaper was snatched from her hand and thrown to the opposite side of the room, and as she started up in alarm she saw the apparition again standing in the sunlight, and again heard the voice--this time in
Read record →Among the "phenomena" which attend the average spiritualistic séance a favorite one is the apparent production from space of quantities of flowers--to the supernatural source of which credence or doubt is given according to the degree of belief or scepticism i
Read record →The principal objection to this argument seems to me to lie in this:--the pansies did not first fall upon us, and thus, by suggestion or otherwise, so excite my wife's imagination that she thought she saw the apparition; the apparition was first manifest, and
Read record →Oh, I know something dreadful is going to happen!"--and she rushed frantically to the upper floor, followed by the others in a body
Read record →What emotion the murderer may have felt when, after excavating under the cement to the depth of about eighteen inches, his tools struck upon solid rock, and he could dig no further, may be left to the imagination
Read record →It would be no discredit to Miss Rounsfell if she had accepted him then and there; but it speaks well for her prudence and self-command that she asked for delay in giving her answer until she could lay the matter before her parents
Read record →bsidiary facts brought out (as to his acquaintance with Miss Rounsfell, for example), but swore he was as innocent as he was incapable of the murder of his wife, I, for one, believed him sincere, although I could perceive in the faces about me that I was alone
Read record →It is probable that few of my readers have spent a year in a "haunted house"--I use this expression, although it defines nothing, for want of a better:--but those who cherish such an experience will understand why, on the one hand, I did not wish to alarm an e
Read record →I made another swift and noiseless survey of the house, but it was as resultless as before, and regained my room much shaken, I will confess, but still unwilling to admit that the sounds could not be referred to natural causes
Read record →My wife had not heard the groans that had been audible to me until their second repetition; then the sound that had seemed beside my ear came at the same instant close to hers, and her cry that joined with mine had been wrung from her by the sight of the appar
Read record →I was unable to enlighten him:--and although I called my wife from her room and described to him our morning's experience with the voices, I thought it best to keep the feature of the apparition a secret
Read record →These were minor occurrences, and I am not relating them with any reference to the order in which they came
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