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One day she timidly informed the Emperor of her promise, and he, only too glad to have another opportunity of pleasing her, set before her such a store of beautiful and precious things that it seemed as if an exquisite phantom world of gay colour and perfect f
Read record →Suddenly the storm abated with the same unexpectedness with which it had arisen
Read record →All foxes possess supernatural powers to an almost limitless degree
Read record →it confessed to Genno that in the form of the Jewel Maiden she had desired to bring destruction to the Imperial line
Read record →Under the earth there is the Sai-no-Kawara, or "the Dry Bed of the River of Souls." This is the place where all children go after death, children and those who have never married
Read record →"For ne'er in those old vasty halls Imperial, Bath'd in the moonbeams bright, Or where the dragon soars on clouds ethereal, Was ought like this to entrance the sight: With golden sand and silvern pebbles white Was strewn the floor; And at the corners four, Thr
Read record →The fame of Fuji, so an old legend informs us, reached the ears of an Emperor of China
Read record →Many years ago there lived on the then barren plain of Suruga a woodman by the name of Visu
Read record →He was about to give up the chase when, coming to an open space in a wood, he saw two ladies sitting down by a brook playing go.[4] The woodman was so completely fascinated that he could do nothing but sit down and watch them
Read record →On one occasion it is said that a priest of giant stature was seen in the country, and no one knew his name or whence he had come
Read record →Snow-Time in Japan has a beauty peculiarly its own, and it is a favourite theme of Japanese poets and artists
Read record →The idea was borrowed from Korea, and they are still sometimes known as "Korean towers." They are seldom lit, except in temple gardens, but they need no jewel of light to make them beautiful
Read record →Her love of very small things came as the result of a great sorrow, but we see in this Japanese love of little objects something pathetic in the nation as a whole
Read record →He writes: "When the sixtieth year of my life, now vanishing as a dewdrop, approached, anew I made me an abode, a sort of last leap, as it were, just as a traveller might run himself up a shelter for a single night, or a decrepit silkworm weave its last cocoon
Read record →m thus: "The Sun with the Three-legged Crow that inhabits it, the Moon with its Hare[2] and Cassia-tree, the Red Bird representing the seven constellations of the southern quarter of the zodiac, the Dark Warrior (a Tortoise) embracing the seven northern conste
Read record →ordial welcome he received, and still more surprised when a servant pushed aside the screens of an adjoining room and revealed the Regent Saimyoji Tokiyori, who was none other than the priest who had taken shelter in his little home
Read record →One day, however, a dead body was found lying in the well, that of a servant who had come to fetch water
Read record →Benten, the Goddess of the Sea, is also one of the Seven Divinities of Luck; and she is romantically referred to as the Goddess of Love, Beauty, and Eloquence
Read record →In a certain cave there lived a formidable dragon, which devoured the children of the village of Koshigoe
Read record →I have a daughter, and, as I am anxious to find a good husband for her, I sent her written poems to all the temples of Benten in Kyōto
Read record →There is a pathetic charm about this festival
Read record →"The scented purple breezes of the Japanese night!
Read record →Kōbō Daishi, however, is essentially famous for the extraordinary miracles which he performed, and numerous are the legends associated with him
Read record →He pressed forward in order to see them more clearly, but could not go far, for he found that his road was barred by a wild torrent
Read record →Many of the following stories are the tales a Japanese mother narrates to her child, for animal stories make a universal appeal to the child-mind
Read record →The rite connected with the festival is of so mysterious a kind that the officiating priest can only impart the secret after his death to his son through the medium of the deceased man's spirit
Read record →The most charming Japanese dragon-fly is called Tenshi-tombō, "the Emperor's dragon-fly." There is a larger variety particularly sought after by children, and of this species there are many more females than males
Read record →rowd of people surged forward, and Daruma with them, till they came to a temple with innumerable pinnacles, a temple covered with a multitude of foul forms, and it seemed to Daruma that he met and kissed the woman who had changed the meaning of jewel and lotus
Read record →It is said that for seven hundred years after this great battle the sea and coast in the vicinity have been haunted by the ghosts of the Taira clan
Read record →Chamberlain in Japanese Poetry, "is one of the oldest in the language, and traces of it may even be found in the official annals." In the popular version, which we give below, "the Evergreen Land," recorded in the Japanese ballad, "The Fisher Boy Urashima," ap
Read record →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
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