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 1 Int   | conservative and held fast to the past, it being understood of
 2 Int   |   accepted as the teaching of the past. He was historian and commentator
 3 Int   |        his own heart, and not the past should be the chief object
 4 Int   |      Ōyōmei was not a repeater of past wisdom, nor a commentator:
 5 Int   |        The sacred memories of the past, the treasures of philosophy
 6 I     |          and Righteousness, makes past and present one, and is
 7 I     |         above the scholars of the past. But the wise man sees that
 8 I     |          as for the hundred years past. For the "law" is not in
 9 II    |        who told me stories of the past, and among them this of
10 II(30)|           a thousand years in the past when authentic history began
11 III   |           into the history of the past and sought scholarly samurai
12 III   |     especially informed about the past. But Yuge thanked the head
13 III   |           entitles you to know my past." So he told the priest
14 IV    |         was wrong. But it is long past and cannot now be reversed.
15 IV    |         tried institutions of the past be untouched. They are familiar
16 IV    |        impeded in the name of the past. To reform such evils is
17 V     |        the forms and faces of the past. Though the moon says not
18 V     |          appearance go and unites past and present in one spirit,
19 V     |    generation; and the men of the past who were one in heart with
20 V     |         mourn. The present is the past to the future, and in that
21 V     |     Patiently did he remember the past as the perfume of the plum
22 V     |     stands with Heaven and Earth. Past and present it only changes