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1 I | no artificial color. The~{p. 2}~plain wood1 soon turns,
2 I | and "shrine" are really~p. 3}~untranslatable; - I
3 I | it would be to prove the~{p. 4}~faith absurd. Nay! in
4 I | shadowed by a holy grove.~{p. 5}~ Elfishly small my
5 I | brass, - the lights of the~{p. 6}~Kami, kindled with purest
6 I | the city, O Daimyôjin!"~{p. 7}~ - "Harai-tamai kiyomé-tamaé! . . .
7 I | soft clapping of little~{p. 8}~hands, and remember
8 I | and pose before me: - ~{p. 9}~ . . . "Whose virgins
9 I | should see the sprouting of~{p. 10}~lichens upon their
10 I | grove with ripplings and~{p. 11}~purlings of melody; -
11 I | which made this tendency~{p. 12}~had their origin in
12 I | details according to province~{p. 13}~or district, their
13 I | enjoyed far more liberty~{p. 14}~than was permitted
14 I | everybody was required to give~{p. 15}~immediate aid to the
15 I | such a one is very sick:~p. 16}~kindly hasten all to
16 I | of the Japanese coast.~{p. 17}~ He was an old man
17 I | white zigzag - a streak~{p. 18}~of mountain road. Ninety
18 I | there was still in the air~p. 19}~that sort of heavy
19 I | running away from the land.~{p. 20}~ Within a very little
20 I | called to his grandson: - ~{p. 21}~ "Tada! - quick, -
21 I | tears, and ran back to the~{p. 22}~house, feeling sure
22 I | great danger, - taihen da!"~{p. 23}~ The whole village
23 I | the old man at the top~{p. 24}~of his voice, pointing
24 I | roaring, and tearing out the~{p. 25}~bowels of the land
25 I | sacrifice. Little Tada ran to~{p. 26}~him, and caught his
26 I | make him rich; nor would~{p. 27}~he have suffered them
27 I | p. 28}~ I asked a Japanese
28 I | notions about the soul."~{p. 29}~
29 II | were singing alternately,~{p. 30}~as if answering each
30 II | and the bamboo-weavers~{p. 31}~and the rice-cleaners.
31 II | delicacies of sentiment,~{p. 32}~allusion, and color.
32 II | sounds. Most of the songs~{p. 33}~which Manyemon had
33 II | my flower begin to bloom?~p. 34}~Evidently the speaker
34 II | tatamizan being especially~p. 35}~popular with dancing-girls.
35 II | a particular period of~{p. 36}~that emotional experience
36 II | hard to say like this?1~p. 37}~VII~Clicked-to1 the
37 II | that my face grows red.~p. 38}~IV~I cannot hide in
38 II | of gods I to the taste.~p. 39}~VIII~You, till a hundred
39 II | there is also dew of tears.~p. 40}~II~Even to see the
40 II | gathering up the bones.2~p. 41}~III~ Thus was it
41 II | water, the Way of Love.~{p. 42}~ "I think that is
42 III | processions announced for the~{p. 44}~24th and 25th. Many
43 III | treble above the natural~{p. 45}~range of the adult
44 III | in different streets the~{p. 46}~lanterns were different.
45 III | road. Also there were fine~{p. 47}~bits of realism, such
46 III | computing age from the date of~{p. 48}~birth. The prime minister,
47 III | wonders justifying both the~{p. 49}~Shintô doctrine of
48 III | verdure, all awaken English~{p. 50}~memories. But as you
49 III | imagine that all this had a~{p. 51}~human designer some
50 III | well worth praying for.~{p. 52}~IV~Feeling hungry,
51 III | who had certainly been~{p. 53}~trained by somebody
52 III | out of place, so utterly~{p. 64}~misunderstood. Our
53 III | Pythagoras," but since renamed~{p. 55}~"Metempsychosis," as
54 III | inferior to that of the~{p. 56}~people of the West,
55 III | swam and sang Japanese~{p. 57}~songs. I saw maidens "
56 III | tube fixed under its head.~{p. 58}~ When I decided to
57 III | enjoyments are powerful~{p. 59}~in proportion to the
58 III | beliefs, superstitions,~{p. 60}~feelings, ideas, about
59 III | artistic presentations~{p. 61}~of visual experience
60 III | nature could inspire and~{p. 62}~aid the work of the
61 III | is superbly independent~{p. 63}~of the material. What
62 III | toys thrown into existence~{p. 64}~with a twist of the
63 III | any quaint street, any~{p. 65}~truly Japanese interior,
64 III | the house of a friendly~{p. 66}~merchant, about half
65 III | in those densely packed~{p. 67}~streets must have been
66 III | physical structure, - ~{p. 68}~the grace that startles
67 III | persons marched in the~{p. 69}~procession, figuring
68 III | silences in Kobe during 1895.~{p. 70}~The first was on the
69 III | But to the Japanese all~{p. 71}~this only made the
70 III | out of a new wine-cup~{p. 72}~of pure white clay
71 III | had come to the hotel on~{p. 73}~some parochial business.
72 III | saluted the spirit after the~{p. 74}~Shintô manner. The
73 III | one hard red mass; the~{p. 75}~cheap purse; the girdle
74 III | which the mind remains~{p. 76}~capable of giving all
75 III | to please everybody; but~{p. 77}~now, poor things! they
76 III | showering generous praise~{p. 78}~upon one typical woman.
77 III | call "refined feeling,"~{p. 79}~it is proof that the
78 III | cultivated classes have~{p. 80}~lived so long in an
79 III | roofs sweeping up through~{p. 81}~them. Each vista of
80 III | architecture, the most entrancing~{p. 82}~landscapes, are formed
81 III | seemingly enduring, are all~{p. 83}~alike mere ghostliness.
82 III | common things to gold.~{p. 84}~
83 IV | temples, and mud gardens with~{p. 85}~ponds and humped bridges
84 IV | could not possibly enter~{p. 86}~a child-mind: the butterflies
85 IV | familiar shock, and know~{p. 87}~myself seized by the
86 IV | women working in those~{p. 88}~fields. Colored moving
87 IV | the Buddhist calls Chû-U.~{p. 89}~It is made of forces,
88 IV | with dissolution: it is~{p. 90}~infinite metempsychosis;
89 IV | far as we can just now~{p. 91}~discern, there will
90 IV | compositions and recompositions~{p. 92}~of the sensations and
91 IV | to feudal tradition, and~{p. 93}~souls that are Nihilists,
92 IV | Perhaps, after trillions~{p. 94}~of ages of burning
93 IV | sex, or mankind: - ~ ~{p. 95}~Then she tries to impress
94 IV | religion, and the best~{p. 96}~part of all earthly
95 IV | enter into Buddhahood.~{p. 97}~
96 V | to explain the nature of~{p. 98}~the advantage likely
97 V | mental process by which the~{p. 99}~novel conclusion has
98 V | apologetic remark that~{p. 100}~the prints referred
99 V | importance. Japan must~{p. 101}~continue to depend
100 V | must declare all other~{p. 102}~Europeans wrong. I
101 V | vulgar. If I am told that~p. 103}~trained art critics
102 V | apparent conventionalism~{p. 104}~of the faces to indicate
103 V | imagine Western art to be~{p. 105}~everywhere equally
104 V | even the divine could find~{p. 106}~development within
105 V | latter is a common fact.~{p. 107}~III~ A partial explanation
106 V | perching somewhere; we observe~p. 108}~only enough to enable
107 V | and the articulations~{p. 109}~of stem and leaves
108 V | often with a force that~{p. 110}~the cleverest French
109 V | eyebrows indicates the wife or~{p. 111}~widow; a straggling
110 V | significance. Still, this is never~p. 112}~individual: it is
111 V | it is not the reflection~{p. 113}~of an individual existence:
112 V | engraving is detailed and~{p. 114}~individualized. Everything
113 V | about the suppression of~{p. 115}~physiognomical detail
114 V | natural law, this Japanese~{p. 116}~art is by its method
115 V | they are, or ought to be,~{p. 117}~more or less disagreeable
116 V | Greek art and by Japanese~{p. 118}~art, namely, the non-moral
117 V | cruel, or cunning traits~{p. 119}~exist; but it is true
118 V | only as unnatural, but~{p. 120}~as effeminate. War
119 V | emotionalism of Western life, our~{p. 121}~art would be found
120 V | result of two experiments.~{p. 122}~ The first was with
121 V | great deal in Japanese~{p. 123}~physiognomy, and the
122 V | magazine out of the way.~{p. 124}~
123 VI | and father's mother, who~{p. 125}~was very old, and
124 VI | Perhaps he did not have money~{p. 126}~enough, I do not know;
125 VI | listen for the rest, Iné."~p. 127}~ The child resumed: - ~ "
126 VI | pulling him by the sleeve. He~{p. 128}~would point with his
127 VI | wept, and stroked us, and~{p. 129}~sang a little song
128 VI | she even goes to school!"~p. 130}~ "Aa fushigi na
129 VI | Manyemon, "the master takes~{p. 131}~your sorrows upon
130 VI | not fear for him, Iné."~{p. 132}~
131 VII | London. Some faire houses~{p. 133}~we found there, but
132 VII | back only to the fifteenth~{p. 134}~century, before which
133 VII | predicted, both by foreigners~{p. 135}~and by Japanese, that
134 VII | cost of $16,000,000. An~{p. 136}~Ôsaka with a population
135 VII | which represent the result~p. 137}~of industrial and
136 VII | heavy black moustache: the~{p. 138}~eyelids alone give
137 VII | tint. When I first came~{p. 139}~to Japan the dominant
138 VII | attached to it: the material~{p. 140}~is wool, and the color
139 VII | directions by canals, besides~{p. 141}~being separated into
140 VII | throw shadows down to the~{p. 142}~foundation. As most
141 VII | turned bright blue and~{p. 143}~then grey, and then,
142 VII | the money-changers are~{p. 144}~in Kitahama, - the
143 VII | an arsenal, and sundry~{p. 145}~mills and breweries.
144 VII | where the advantage of so~p. 146}~doing is indubitable.
145 VII | Asahi Shimbun" office~{p. 147}~one of the handsomest
146 VII | and in some branches of~{p. 148}~business it may be
147 VII | leisure, - no time of his own~{p. 149}~except the time necessary
148 VII | he does even worse. But,~p. 150}~whatever the matter
149 VII | are taken into service~{p. 151}~at a very early age,
150 VII | matter of little sister~{p. 152}~O-Noto; - with humble
151 VII | Four Deva Kings,1 is one of~p. 153}~the oldest Buddhist
152 VII | fled away. The rout of the~{p. 154}~enemies of Buddhism
153 VII | prototypal; and things never~{p. 155}~before seen gave me
154 VII | proper occupy a quadrangular~{p. 156}~court surrounded by
155 VII | worship were peculiar as the~{p. 157}~buildings. I can give
156 VII | and dolls and kites and~{p. 158}~masks and monkeys,
157 VII | more look at loved toys~{p. 159}~and faces. The plaintive
158 VII | flows is more than half~{p. 160}~full of white paper, -
159 VII | this busy commercial city;~{p. 161}~for many thousands
160 VII | exact counterparts of the~{p. 162}~Nishi and Higashi
161 VII | under their enormous eaves;~p. 163}~ - no golden hosts
162 VII | be justly said to have~{p. 164}~much in common with
163 VII | everything in its favor,~{p. 165}~ - imperial recognition,
164 VII(1) | the abrogation {footnote p. 166} of the civil laws
165 VII | diet and celibacy,1 - the~p. 166}~ancient ideals are
166 VII | Buddhist and Shintô, with very~{p. 167}~ancient histories.
167 VII | Reign of the Emperor-Sage."1~p. 168}~ That was fifteen
168 VII | trees are said to love~{p. 169}~iron and to be strengthened
169 VII | only able to make a good~{p. 170}~living, but to educate
170 VII | of hyôtan resembles that~{p. 171}~of an hour-glass,
171 VII | monument; and here and there,~p. 172}~among the rocks, are
172 VII | and Ôsaka is no exception.~p. 173}~But interiorly a very
173 VII | with the minimum of cost;~{p. 174}~while the most industrially
174 VII | equally disgusted me with~{p. 175}~Occidental interiors,
175 VII | a Japanese birthright.~{p. 176}~It is everywhere present, -
176 VII | painting, no varnishing,~{p. 177}~no wall-papering, -
177 VII | petty - vexations, - their~{p. 178}~personal acquaintance
178 VII | bold strokes by a master -~{p. 179}~brush-pictured two
179 VII | samples. After you have~{p. 180}~made your choice,
180 VII | was being done testified~{p. 181}~to the excellence
181 VII | everywhere the same. But now~{p. 182}~many of the detchi
182 VII | are working without pay.~{p. 183}~No foreigner could
183 VII | above the growing dusk~{p. 181}~itself, - I saw, rising
184 VII | mightiest city of Japan.~{p. 185}~
185 VIII | which does not in some~{p. 186}~way proclaim the ancient
186 VIII | clocks and watches, mark~{p. 187}~the passing of time
187 VIII | dimension of such compositions~{p. 188}~necessarily excluded
188 VIII | penetrative subtlety of a~{p. 189}~thought anathematized
189 VIII | ancient Eastern faith! - ~{p. 190}~Love, it is often
190 VIII | deeds in a former birth!~p. 191}~ Many songs of this
191 VIII | yet in another life.~~~~~~{p. 192}~She looks at the portrait
192 VIII | I can only wish to die.~p. 193}~There! - oh, what
193 VIII | place those treating of the~p. 194}~doctrine of ingwa,
194 VIII(1)| unhappy match - {footnote p. 195} either betrothal or
195 VIII | be moved from the rut!1~p. 195}~A more remarkable
196 VIII(2)| saying-cry-insects than, better {footnote p. 196} never-cry-firefly,
197 VIII | to a being not sincere!2~p. 196}~ If the foregoing
198 VIII | the eternal Absolute.~{p. 197}~In the following dodoitsu
199 VIII | tempest will not come?2~p. 198}~Shadow and shape alike
200 VIII(3)| Kawaranu mono wa {footnote p. 199}~Kawarumai to no~
201 VIII | promising never to change.3~p. 199}~Cruel the beautiful
202 VIII(3)| things in this {footnote p. 200} world are uncertain,
203 VIII | word that forever divides.3~p. 200}~Only too well I know
204 VIII(2)| of the Buddha {footnote p. 201} placed in cemeteries. -
205 VIII | the living Buddha was not~p. 201}~so insensible, as
206 VIII | usually inclined to reverence.~p. 202}~Even while praying
207 VIII(2)| due to mayoi, or {footnote p. 203} illusion, is a state
208 VIII | the owner of my heart.2~p. 203}~ The interest attaching
209 VIII | not the simple or dull.~p. 204}~Coldly seen from without
210 VIII(3)| depicted in Buddhist {footnote p. 205} prints as a place
211 VIII | signify nothing at all.3~p. 205}~Not yet indeed is
212 VIII | specimens of hundreds: - ~p. 206}~Never can be recalled
213 VIII(3)| sunset to saw {footnote p. 207} rise. The bell referred
214 VIII | the bell that cannot lie.~p. 207}~This my desire: To
215 VIII | friend Saigô, Kido composed~p. 208}~and sang this song
216 VIII | had not offered itself to~{p. 209}~humanity as a saving
217 VIII | union of Western knowledge~p. 210}~with Eastern thought
218 VIII | with the Highest Wonder"?~{p. 211}~
219 IX | our conception of Nirvana~{p. 212}~is wrong. Or if we
220 IX | seems the most indubitable~{p. 213}~of realities, Buddhist
221 IX | Books of the East," is to be~p. 214}~at every page confronted
222 IX | a sinless one is not." (p. 50.)~ "Is there, Nagasena,
223 IX | repeated in a later chapter (p. 111), with a qualification: "
224 IX | another?" "No: there is not." (p. 112.)~{p. 215}~ "Where
225 IX | there is not." (p. 112.)~{p. 215}~ "Where there is
226 IX | he knows it, O King." (p. 113)~ Naturally the Western
227 IX | eight stages the Buddhist~{p. 216}~seeker after truth
228 IX | Infinity of Space alone~{p. 217}~is present," - and
229 IX | cessation of contact feeling is~{p. 218}~destroyed; by that
230 IX | individual Permanent Soul.~{p. 219}~II~O Bhagavat, the
231 IX | material and mental phenomena,~{p. 220}~ - into what we call
232 IX | conditioned by Karma.1~ ~p. 221}~ The Karma-Ego we
233 IX | only the rising and the~{p. 222}~vanishing of forms, -
234 IX | and pass to the supreme~p. 223}~conquest of Space
235 IX | perceives is an unstable~{p. 224}~plexus of aggregates
236 IX | Anti-Realism, but a veritable~{p. 225}~Transfigured Realism,
237 IX | organs of sense - sight,~{p. 226}~smell, taste, even
238 IX | race and the individual,~{p. 227}~and that our wish
239 IX | philosophy: it is also,~{p. 228}~morally, one of the
240 IX | wakening of universal love.~{p. 229}~ Buddhism, on the
241 IX | knowledge can discover~{p. 230}~no justice in the
242 IX | us but to live and die~{p. 231}~in comparative misery?
243 IX | sake of another Ananda?~{p. 232}~ We have seen that
244 IX | psychology is there any real~{p. 233}~teaching of two feeling
245 IX | which are immortal and~{p. 234}~divine. It declares
246 IX | and the larger the volume~p. 235}~of all sensation.
247 IX | feelings of self begin to thin~{p. 236}~and weaken. The condition
248 IX(2) | partial agreement {footnote p. 237} with the modern scientific
249 IX | impulses live on and recombine;~p. 237}~and the final destruction
250 IX | wish may prove creative.~{p. 238}~ It may be said,
251 IX | of a Queen dowered with~{p. 239}~"the beauty of the
252 IX | to be incomprehensible~{p. 240}~anticipations of modern
253 IX | intellectual ability of~{p. 241}~the learner. Also
254 IX | spirits of the good. The~p. 242}~followers of the greatest
255 IX | Yoku-Kai), - which are four in~{p. 243}~number. Below these
256 IX | some of them are such as~{p. 244}~might be supposed
257 IX | improved; and the grosser forms~p. 245}~of passion disappear.
258 IX | and lovers and poets. But~{p. 246}~those who are able
259 IX | any sort exist: there is~{p. 247}~a mild negative pleasure
260 IX | Emptiness. In the second~p. 218}~state of the Mushiki-Kai,
261 IX | enumerated: the power to~p. 249}~rise swiftly or slowly
262 IX | progression is not conceived of~p. 250}~(except in very rare
263 IX | These are, the Roku-Jindzû~{p. 251}~ ~{p. 252}~ ~{p.
264 IX | Roku-Jindzû~{p. 251}~ ~{p. 252}~ ~{p. 253}~(Abhidjñâ),
265 IX | p. 251}~ ~{p. 252}~ ~{p. 253}~(Abhidjñâ), or Six
266 IX | the total cosmos. In the~p. 254}~first state of holiness,
267 IX | retrogression in the path.1~P. 255}~ To show them for
268 IX | identity of the Buddhas even~p. 256}~in Nirvana, notwithstanding
269 IX | spiritual ultimate. This~{p. 257}~hypothesis, though
270 IX(1) | personality." (Hereditary Genius, p. 361.) Another thought of
271 IX(1) | Heart," in the {footnote p. 258} sense of divine mind,
272 IX | a composition of units.1~p. 258}~The Absolute is conceivable
273 IX | but to believe each unit~{p. 259}~permanently equal
274 IX | infinite Unknown Reality.~p. 260}~ There are wonderful
275 IX | stupendous art into one vast~{p. 261}~mosaic of polarities; -
276 IX | abiding beyond all change.~{p. 262}~The Buddhist estimate
277 IX | they have still power to~{p. 263}~clutch the climbing
278 IX | doctrine of impermanency is~{p. 264}~the doctrine also
279 IX | science in repudiating equally~p. 265}~our doctrines of materialism
280 IX | science, the teaching of this~{p. 266}~more ancient faith
281 IX | outer-man is the ghost.~{p. 267}~
282 X | presume to advise the perusal~{p. 268}~of the whole translation
283 X | sister the story of his~{p. 269}~previous existence
284 X | formal investigation of the~{p. 270}~case. As the news
285 X | did not contradict the~{p. 271}~statements before-mentioned
286 X | Month. [No other date.]~{p. 272}~3. - COPY OF THE LETTER
287 X | inquiring about the matter.~{p. 273}~After having obtained
288 X | old this sixth year of~{p. 274}~Bunsei [1823].1 Second
289 X | old, her father, Kichitarô~p. 275}~was dismissed forever
290 X | Four years old this year.~p. 276}~[Family of Hanshirô.]~
291 X | Stepfather of Tôzô. Family~p. 277}~name: Suzaki. Fifty
292 X | Fusa, he asked her, - ~p. 278}~ "Elder Sister,
293 X | Very well, then - I shall~{p. 279}~tell that thing to
294 X | greatly at hearing this; and~{p. 280}~they decided to make
295 X(2) | red earthenware, {footnote p. 281} - called Kamé. Such
296 X | a jar;2 I remember that~p. 281}~I was buried on a
297 X | Nembutsu2 being said for me.~p. 282}~I remember also that
298 X | Then I was going to enter~p. 283}~when I heard talking
299 X | not afraid to speak freely~p. 284}~with his parents on
300 X | in, and asked the people~{p. 285}~there what was the
301 X | departed [ga wo orishi].~{p. 286}~ On the same day
302 X(2) | island of Hachijô, {footnote p. 287} where he remained
303 X(2) | prayer-book, under {footnote p. 288} the title, Shintô-Fudô-Norito.
304 X | Ontaké Sama2 has taught us,~p. 287}~dying is not a matter
305 X | rather not be a priest."~{p. 288}~ The village people
306 X | remember having done any~p. 289}~virtuous deeds. Genzô
307 X | Owner: Kurumachô, Shiba,~p. 290}~Yedo." Under this,
308 X | since it was only a dream.~{p. 291}~
309 XI | back through a million~{p. 292}~years, - and as if
310 XI | the voice of the divine~{p. 293}~one who had thus saved
311 XI | in the colors of them.~{p. 294}~ "He who truly wishes
312 XI | and sea; - the peaks, the~{p. 295}~woods, the plains; -
313 XI | understanding is not yours. Still~{p. 296}~to your eyes the shadow
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