Chapter

 1 I|         There was, for instance, Hamaguchi Gohei, a farmer of the district
 2 I|      Before telling the story of Hamaguchi Gohei, I must say a few
 3 I|            III~   Now concerning Hamaguchi.~   From immemorial time
 4 I|        human lives. The story of Hamaguchi Gohei is the story of a
 5 I|          best terms possible.~   Hamaguchi's big thatched farmhouse
 6 I|      home.~   One autumn evening Hamaguchi Gohei was looking down from
 7 I|         to frighten anybody; but Hamaguchi, who had felt hundreds of
 8 I|            As the quaking ceased Hamaguchi's keen old eyes were anxiously
 9 I|     vision. Thus it chanced that Hamaguchi became aware of something
10 I|      rock were left bare even as Hamaguchi gazed. And none of the people
11 I|      monstrous ebb signified.~   Hamaguchi Gohei himself had never
12 I|     Ojiisan! why? - why?"~   But Hamaguchi did not answer: he had no
13 I|        grandfather had gone mad. Hamaguchi went on firing stack after
14 I|  responded to the double appeal. Hamaguchi watched them hurrying in
15 I|     horizon.~   Really, however, Hamaguchi did not have very long to
16 I|          village was coming; and Hamaguchi counted. All the young men
17 I|          As for the rice," cried Hamaguchi, "the child tells the truth.
18 I|         dumb, until the voice of Hamaguchi was heard again, observing
19 I|    themselves in the dust before Hamaguchi Gohei, and the people after
20 I|         not forget their debt to Hamaguchi Gohei. They could not make
21 I|        and thereafter called him Hamaguchi DAIMYÔJIN, thinking they
22 I| rationally imagine the spirit of Hamaguchi in one place while his living