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Eric Lease Morgan May 27, 2019 Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 86 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 62509 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 78 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 55 Japan 49 japanese 24 chinese 23 man 22 China 20 Mr. 19 little 19 Emperor 16 English 15 like 14 San 13 illustration 13 great 12 time 12 Buddhism 11 Buddha 10 western 10 european 10 day 10 Shinto 10 New 9 Tokyo 9 Kami 9 Imperial 9 God 8 West 8 Kyoto 8 East 7 life 7 Tokugawa 7 Prince 7 Miss 7 Mikado 7 England 6 old 6 christian 6 Yokohama 6 Yedo 6 House 6 Footnote 6 Europe 6 Christianity 6 CHAPTER 6 America 5 american 5 York 5 Sir 5 Sama 5 Mrs. 5 Korea Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 11249 man 9351 time 7949 day 6331 year 5199 life 4961 people 4686 hand 4650 house 4638 way 4141 place 4036 thing 4002 country 3973 woman 3513 child 3368 eye 3268 girl 3197 face 3153 family 3149 head 3049 one 2960 word 2925 night 2889 name 2877 part 2775 room 2634 world 2620 work 2610 city 2548 nothing 2524 foot 2499 land 2480 order 2462 side 2428 fact 2397 power 2363 father 2324 water 2254 temple 2217 mother 2175 wife 2156 matter 2155 mind 2129 heart 2113 home 2111 son 2089 death 2082 tree 1981 friend 1885 century 1808 war Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 25770 _ 9253 Japan 4080 Japanese 2841 China 2304 Emperor 2082 Mr. 1784 Prince 1538 Buddhism 1391 Zen 1310 Dono 1262 Yuki 1143 Kyoto 1111 Buddha 1110 Chinese 1065 San 1021 English 1015 Shinto 984 Kami 984 Court 947 lord 876 Government 861 Tokyo 829 God 821 Mrs. 818 Yedo 809 Miss 798 New 788 America 761 Tokugawa 761 Genji 760 Mikado 713 Sir 705 Imperial 682 Buddhist 677 Footnote 654 i. 641 East 638 Korea 637 Pierre 635 Christianity 617 Jack 612 Lord 603 West 597 King 597 A.D. 596 Nan 592 Kamakura 592 Europe 587 Hideyoshi 565 temple Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 42468 it 39493 he 32983 i 21184 they 18604 she 18455 you 13911 we 13306 him 11056 them 8677 me 7448 her 4354 us 3572 himself 1962 themselves 1457 itself 1322 herself 1300 one 780 myself 358 ourselves 331 yourself 152 mine 119 thee 110 ours 104 his 101 theirs 87 yours 78 hers 63 ''s 46 yt 35 yow 29 oneself 27 ya 20 o''iwa 20 ''em 9 yourselves 8 thyself 7 ye 6 i''m 5 toki 4 iémon_--"ya 4 ii 3 zo 3 yf 3 wa 3 thy 2 yui 2 you,-- 2 you!--you 2 yer 2 yatsu Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 184513 be 58565 have 15818 do 12674 say 11343 make 9982 see 9495 come 9381 go 8494 take 6724 know 6392 give 5326 find 5095 think 4433 become 4419 look 4318 call 3943 seem 3851 tell 3672 leave 3318 get 3275 bring 2980 send 2769 pass 2765 follow 2749 begin 2723 ask 2637 show 2636 stand 2602 hold 2595 hear 2505 feel 2500 use 2478 put 2410 speak 2378 keep 2364 live 2252 carry 2241 turn 2240 fall 2049 return 1987 write 1878 remain 1860 let 1850 appear 1849 bear 1778 grow 1777 receive 1764 set 1749 reach 1726 die Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 30861 not 12071 so 8935 more 8420 japanese 7897 then 7747 great 7733 only 7311 very 7171 other 6973 now 6894 little 6443 up 5877 out 5676 old 5504 first 5457 long 5282 well 5064 many 5028 even 5011 much 4748 good 4691 as 4534 such 4434 most 4046 own 3931 also 3884 never 3722 here 3501 still 3343 same 3342 down 3271 too 3133 high 3052 new 3026 young 3022 last 2999 there 2993 again 2956 away 2948 far 2905 small 2868 however 2862 once 2841 back 2782 large 2770 thus 2762 just 2664 chinese 2466 few 2318 foreign Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1174 good 1038 least 1004 most 558 great 420 high 178 Most 164 early 149 slight 148 bad 140 fine 129 large 128 eld 127 low 116 near 94 old 81 late 74 strong 72 small 68 deep 65 simple 58 poor 54 young 50 happy 49 dear 45 rich 36 wise 32 long 31 able 30 noble 29 full 28 bright 27 lovely 25 close 24 pure 22 farth 22 common 21 sweet 21 manif 21 brave 20 strange 19 l 19 innermost 19 dark 19 big 18 mean 17 short 17 fair 17 faint 16 hot 16 choice Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3430 most 182 well 164 least 4 long 2 oldest 2 near 2 hard 2 eldest 1 soon 1 smallest 1 richest 1 poorest 1 noblest 1 lung,--whose 1 lookest 1 highest 1 heads,--the 1 greatest 1 ghostliest 1 clearest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 www.gutenberg.org 6 www.gutenberg.net 2 www.archive.org 2 archive.org 1 www.envirolink.org 1 digital.library.villanova.edu 1 creativecommons.org 1 books.google.com Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/57861/57861-h/57861-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/57861/57861-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42365/42365-h/42365-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42365/42365-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35511/35511-h/35511-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35511/35511-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/2/8/8/22884/22884-h/22884-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/2/8/8/22884/22884-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/0/5/13051/13051-h/13051-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/0/5/13051/13051-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/0/1/13015/13015-h/13015-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/1/3/0/1/13015/13015-h.zip 1 http://www.envirolink.org/issues/nuketesting/ 1 http://www.archive.org/details/historyofjapanes00briniala 1 http://www.archive.org 1 http://digital.library.villanova.edu/) 1 http://creativecommons.org/ 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=UCQXAAAAYAAJ 1 http://archive.org/details/mysteriousjapan00stre 1 http://archive.org Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- 1 pg@aldarondo.net Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 33 japan is not 30 japanese are not 25 one does not 23 japanese do not 23 time went on 19 people are not 17 _ go _ 16 life is not 14 _ is _ 13 _ is not 13 japan was not 12 japan did not 11 _ are _ 11 man is not 11 men did not 10 japan does not 10 japan is now 10 japan is so 9 _ was _ 9 _ went out 9 japan are not 9 japanese are very 9 man did not 9 men do not 9 one has ever 9 people do not 9 things are not 8 houses are not 8 houses are so 8 japan do not 8 men were not 8 one had ever 7 _ see _ 7 japan has ever 7 japan has not 7 japan is still 7 japanese are so 7 japanese did not 7 japanese were not 7 people did not 7 thing is certain 7 time had not 6 _ are not 6 _ did _ 6 _ was not 6 day is not 6 eyes were full 6 face was very 6 japan had not 6 japanese are great Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 japan is not so 3 face was no longer 3 japan is not yet 3 japan was not yet 3 people are not willing 3 time has not yet 2 country had not yet 2 house is not large 2 japan had no choice 2 japan is not only 2 japanese have no use 2 japanese were not yet 2 life is not worth 2 man is not only 2 man was not long 2 one does not really 2 things are not yet 2 time had not yet 2 time is not yet 1 * does not necessarily 1 * had no basis 1 _ are no less 1 _ are not always 1 _ are not numerous 1 _ are not vassals 1 _ be not too 1 _ did not well 1 _ has no fear 1 _ is no equivalent 1 _ is no safe 1 _ is not at 1 _ is not often 1 _ is not only 1 _ is not remarkable 1 _ is not so 1 _ is not wrong 1 _ saw no exit 1 _ was no easy 1 _ was no longer 1 _ was no servant 1 _ were not very 1 child had no special 1 child has no other 1 child was not afraid 1 children are not entirely 1 children are not really 1 children do not thus 1 children had no name 1 children have no pens 1 children is not so Sizes of items; 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She took the half-drowned little Sada home with her, and I waved good-by to the girl as the little launch made its way to I can think of a thousand things right now I want to say to Jack come like animated jack-knives on a live wire. You beloved girl, I have heard from Jack and my heart is singing a tree, to the tiny little station far away that looks like a right, old Uncle, thought I, if stay you will, then I shall use all Sada might come down to Hiroshima very soon, and help me look for Jack says it looked like a big international flag Jack is in Siberia and Uncle has Sada. 12355 FOREIGN POLICY OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT government of Japan at the time of the advent of foreigners been in States Government as Consul-General to Japan. The Shogun began to make a compromise to unite the Emperor''s power and the splendor of Japan shine in foreign countries. the question of the foreign policy of the government is again under From this time the council of Daimios was held every year, sometimes governed while the power was divided between the Emperor and myself. country, informed the Emperor that I resigned the governing power, my country and the people, I resigned the governing power which I surpassing the excellent governments of foreign nations, is to change the Shogunate officials to the government of the Restoration. the great Government has been newly restored and the Emperor himself powerful influence upon the body politic as in New Japan. since the Restoration the government for the first time established 12527 "I think, Geoffrey, that you like to be seen with Asako," she said, "You think Asako is still very Japanese, then?" asked Geoffrey. "I think one day we shall go to Japan," said Geoffrey, "when we get "Japanese _geisha_," said the tea-house girl, "if _danna san_ wish to "No thank you," said Geoffrey, hurriedly, "Asako darling, it is time "I suppose it''s the photographs which look like old times," Geoffrey "I thought he would like the country," said Geoffrey guardedly. "Look here," said Geoffrey, "is it the thing for ladies--English Love your husband like a good little girl. "Japanese _saké_" said Sadako to her cousin, "you do not like?" "I don''t think they like me," said Geoffrey. "Japanese style looks nicer," said Asako, thinking how big and vulgar "I don''t like the foxes'' faces," said Asako, "they look bad "If only I had a little house like this," said Asako. 13015 lead this abandoned life, went to him and said: "My lord, you told me went outside the house and called to the girl, who came running to his from the haunts of men, they fell in with an old man, who, having he went to O Koyo''s house, and, meeting her father Kihachi, said to sir, Chokichi came here and said that my lord Genzaburô, having been One day, at the foot of a certain mountain, the old man fell in with last the old man said that he must take his leave and return home; and present." So she asked the old man the way to the sparrows'' house, and When the good old man saw that the dog, whom he had lent, did not come The good old man and woman, so soon as they heard of their neighbours'' After three years had gone by, one night the old man heard a voice 13051 [Illustration: Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs] [Illustration: MERCHANTS'' GREAT FESTIVAL.] illustration, is also a festival of great importance: it takes place largely engross the attention of Japanese artists, generally depict His court consists of the members of his own family and certain great [Illustration: THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE IN FRONT OF THE MIKADO''S PALACE.] [Illustration: LADIES OF THE MIKADO''S COURT PERFORMING THE BUTTERFLY The Japanese, being a high-spirited and patriotic people, consider The Japanese fence well, and deliver their points with great The Japanese are great frequenters of the theatres, of the interior of the Japanese attach great importance. A religious observance of great importance with the Japanese is No Japanese dreams of entering a friend''s house while the white lamp scenes, and conveys a fair idea of an ordinary Japanese house. way, have regular halting-places at tea-houses officially set apart The sitting-apartments in Japanese houses are generally situated at 13450 "Come, Nancy, dear," floated Miss Campbell''s voice across the garden. "But then the Japanese daughter-in-law''s turn comes later," said Mary "But I like the looks of this place, Komatsu," said the gracious big lady Hardly a moment later Billie, glancing through the door, saw Nancy in "They are no longer little girls," thought Miss Campbell, rather sadly, them in the house," Billie heard Miss Campbell remark, as she ran along "You are just a little girl after all, Billie," he said. "How do you feel now, Miss Billie?" asked Nicholas Grimm coming to the "Where is Onoye, O''Haru?" Miss Campbell asked, a few days after the "Nonsense," thought Billie; but Miss Campbell was in one of her Billie surprised the little Japanese girl sitting up examining her arm, "But Papa likes him," said Billie, simply, feeling that her father''s "Well, Miss Nancy, ''is'' what?" asked Mr. Campbell, smiling. 13831 ancient and modern Japan--Japanese evolution is "natural"--The study depends on personality and idealism--The new social order is producing duty--Revenge and the new social order--Are the Japanese cruel?--First The wide development of the æsthetic sense in Japan--Japanese æsthetic communal religion--Shared by Japan--Some Japanese recognize the need the individual psychic character to the social order--"Race soul" a Those races and nations that refuse to recognize the new social order, the relation of the social order to individual and to race character, The same questions recur at this new period of Japan''s national life. nature and development of Japanese racial characteristics, believing peculiar nature of the social order which so long prevailed in Japan. By a great effort, however, Japan has introduced a new social order, corresponds to the nature of the Japanese social order. characteristic features of Japanese social order are the real sources social order of the Japanese nation during the past thirty years, 15320 Of old it was said: ''The River of Heaven is the Ghost of There can be little doubt that the Japanese festival called rain that happens to fall on Tanabata night is called _Namida no Amé_, selection of ancient Japanese poems, treating of the Tanabata legend. Japanese life and thought twelve hundred years ago. [Footnote 8: _Hisakata-no_ is a "pillow-word" used by the old poets in [Footnote 12: That is to say, "wife." In archaic Japanese the word (_zuma_), in ancient Japanese, signified either wife or husband; and [Footnote 17: In ancient Japanese the word _séko_ signified either [_The love-longing of one whole year having ended to-night, [Footnote 21: At different times, in the history of Japanese female [Footnote 57: The Japanese word for granite is _mikagé_; and there is To old Japanese fancy the falling of these heavy red flowers was like [Footnote 62: Two Japanese words are written, in _kana_, as "mé"--one 15516 fulfil."--Characteristics of Japan.--Bird''s-eye view of Japanese history Japan is young beside China and Korea.--Japanese history is in Japan Tei-Shu system.--In Buddhism the Japanese were startling Japan.--The first organized religion of the Japanese.--Professor Basil Chinese as pronounced by Japanese, means the Way of the Gods, the t[=o] of wicked people like the Chinese; while the ancient Japanese were pure call Japan, the Land of the Gods, the Country of the Holy Spirits, the avatar in Japan of Buddha in the previous ages, when the Japanese were that vast development of Japanese Buddhism, peculiar to Japan and Japanese gods as well as men, and no being without Buddha, the way is Buddhism coming to Japan by means of the Great Vehicle, or with the [Footnote 20: For light upon the status of the Japanese family, see F.O. Adams''s History of Japan, Vol. II., p. 17108 17387 children of long time ago, when big star say to all worlds Christ baby That little Tãke Chan never hear ''bout it before, and he get look in We learn song ''bout star and cradle and ''gain he speak his thought. child in whole class could make things such fast as Tãke Chan. if I did not know ''bout Christmas-story and all other many things like He get big surprise when his eye come into kindergarten window Wonder if those coughs permission Tãke Chan to come kindergarten The big love of my heart for this Japanese country make me Mama say rest at home, but he say this great feast-day for new God. He must for certain come and offer pine-tree and have song and march." star, but big cough catch Tãke Chan in middle, and when the strangle had give him enchantment Tãke Chan rose from floor till he come right under 19264 "In this hot weather," said Genji, in a low tone, "what makes him come that prayer," said Genji, turning to the girl, "it shows our life is "The Chiûjiô told me once," said Genji, "that she had a little one. "How timid the little girl must feel!" thought Genji, as he was shown evening," said Genji, as he led the girl away, to the great surprise day, please," said Genji, and he went off, the maidens who attended on In these days much of Genji''s time was passed at Nijiô with Violet, Genji thought it was time to inform her father about his daughter; but The priest said one day to his wife, "Prince Genji, the imperial son In the course of a few days Genji was invited by the Emperor to come "It is a long time since I saw you last," said Genji, "but still I 19944 of Kyu[u]bei''s house said Densuké--"Ojo[u]san, condescend to wait here The cause of Densuké''s appearance is a woman." The old man made a face. knew little about the man, but Cho[u]bei at one time had been resident with impediments...."--"It is the daughter of Tamiya; O''Iwa San. Matazaémon Dono has commissioned this Rokuro[u]bei to secure a _muko_." too great the kindness of Cho[u]bei San and wife." O''Taki laughed apartment were Kondo[u] Rokuro[u]bei and his wife, O''Iwa, and Iémon. Replied Cho[u]bei coldly--"That is the wife of Tamiya Iémon; O''Iwa San, diviner, doubtless Iémon San knows Kondo[u] Rokuro[u]bei by this time. satisfy Iémon, Master of Tamiya, O''Iwa, his ward, and Ito[u] Kwaiba, the Iémon no man is allowed entrance to the house." Kwaiba knitted his O''Iwa''s stay of nearly seven days at Cho[u]bei''s house was one of the a year of the Ojo[u]san''s leaving the house in Yotsuya?" O''Iwa turned to 19945 honoured house officer (_kyu[u]nin_) of his master was the six days turn That very day--toward noon--the summons came through the girl O''Han. With sinking heart I took my way to her ladyship''s sitting room. place that Shu[u]zen only sought to avoid--they could live as husband _kyu[u]nin_ (house officer) watched Shu[u]zen as he retired to his room. Abé Shiro[u]goro[u] was a great lord, and Shu[u]zen answered Bankei--"Deign to relate something of how Shu[u]zen Dono came to this At Shu[u]zen''s order that night Isuké met his lord at the steps of the Shu[u]zen in sport had placed a cold wet hand on his neck. hair of the beard and head show it to be a man." Shu[u]zen turned to a Shu[u]zen, my father, lies close at hand. Aoyama Shu[u]zen Dono...." The list was a long one. have faced Shu[u]zen; except sword in hand. Aoyama Shu[u]zen Sama, _hatamoto_ with a _yashiki_ in the Bancho[u]. 22884 25021 2510 The Japanese are, it is true, commonly said to be an irreligious people. Mikado-worship and Japan-worship--for that is the new Japanese good to the outer world the new claim that Japan differs in no essential Japanese literati, who loved to dwell on the contrast between Japan''s antiquity, the origins of Japanese history are recent as compared countries; while at the same time the Japanese nation, sharing to some Japanese history shows that the great feudal houses, so far from The new Japanese religion consists, in its present early stage, of Japan is as far superior to the common ruck of nations as the Mikado is early history-books record the fact that Japan was created first, while according to which, as already noted, the whole Japanese nation is, in a investigators vis-a-vis Japan differs entirely from that of Japanese The classic instance of the invention of a new national religion is 25590 2605 27456 A long time ago there was a white mouse called Kanemochi, servant of Daikoku, the God of Wealth. enough to take a wife, his parents concluded to get named Chudayu had a lovely daughter called Hatsuka. The bridegroom sent the bride the usual articles: cuttle fish, white flax, sea-weed, and _sake_ or The bride sent the bridegroom in like cuttle-fish, white flax, sea-weed, fish, and _sake_; thus confirming the marriage promise. prepared for the bride''s removal to her new home, and out, made preparation for the marriage ceremony sent out many of his servants to meet the bride on At a signal from the go-between the bride and bridegroom, to confirm the marriage bond, exchanged guests exchanged cups with the bride in token of Shortly afterwards the bride, her husband, and his In the evening the bride returned home with her husband and his parents with 7. The Old Man and the Devils. 27604 sovereign''s reign--reckoning from the New Year''s day following his and the seventy-second year of his reign fell, therefore, in 219 B.C. Now, to the east of the town of Shingu in Kii province, at a place on Japan or presented to the Japanese Throne by foreign potentates. exercise public rights as head of a State." A Japanese Emperor Now, at the time of his death, Okusaka had a son, Mayuwa, seven years placing upon the throne Prince Furubito, a son of the Emperor Jomei. administrative power lay in the hands of the Court nobles in Kyoto, Kyoto Court to appoint an Imperial prince to the post of shogun. that the chief official in the shogun''s court at Muromachi in Kyoto Imperial Court in earlier times by leaving the military families in Japanese authorities by visiting Japan--not for the first time but family, no such custom having existed in Japan at any time." 28690 years been published about Japan and things Japanese a correct prefer to regard Japan as a country of more ancient civilisation than "Progress of Japan," asserts that the religion of the Japanese country as also for the place that Japan holds among the Great Powers men has been a great boon for such a country as Japan, and if she is Japan, as also to the fact that the Japanese are a joyous race but Japanese life, and, as I have shown, the All Souls'' Day in Japan is an Japanese people are now largely dependent on the foreigner for art to the literature of that country: "The time will come when Japan, European Powers has had upon nations like China and Japan. trade of Japan will very largely pass into the hands of the Japanese between the Europeans in Japan and the Japanese themselves. 28979 the home life of the Japanese and in the pictures and stories which to disappear, yet the children''s world of toys and games and stories The games and sports of Japanese children have been so well described by These little boys all live a long way off in islands called "Japan." In the second large picture two of the little boys are playing at represents a game that children in Japan are very fond of playing. New Year''s Day, just as our children try and imitate things they see [Illustration: Girls'' Ball and Counting Game.] have been also played at for centuries by Japanese boys and girls. THE GAMES AND SPORTS OF JAPANESE CHILDREN[21] Some of the games of Japanese children are of a national character, and games in which Japanese boys, from the infant on the back to the =Ayrton''s Child Life in Japan and Japanese Child Stories.= Edited by 30020 They had one child, a little daughter, whom they both loved with It was too far for the mother and her little baby to go, you see," said the husband, proud of knowing something that his wife first time she had ever seen the reflection of her own pretty face. lovely, the mother kept the mirror carefully hidden away, fearing that been, and knew nothing of her own good looks, or of the mirror which When I am gone, promise me that you will look into this mirror every days, but the beautiful young mother of long ago. joy was to be able to look in the mirror and say; "Mother, I have been Seeing her every night and morning, without fail, look into the mirror, "Father," she said, "I look in the mirror every day to see my dear mother and to talk with her." Then she 30024 that tortoises always live a thousand years,--at least Japanese The next thing that happened was that Urashima went to sleep in his am the daughter of the Sea-God, and I live with my father in the Dragon if you like; and we will live happily together for a thousand years in So Urashima took one oar, and the Sea-God''s daughter took the other; and Dragon Palace where the Sea-God lived and ruled as King over all the So Urashima promised to take great care of the box, and not to open it Then it suddenly flashed across Urashima''s mind that the Sea-God''s that his three years in the Sea-God''s Palace had really been hundreds box, he should never be able to go to the Sea-God''s Palace again. Wouldn''t you like to go and see the Dragon Palace beyond the waves, where the Sea-God lives and rules as King over the Dragons and 31043 31571 This imperial Amazon was the wife of the mikado Chinai, who in 193 A.D. set out at the head of his army for Kiushiu, a rebellion having broken ten thousand men was sent to Japan, but was soon driven from the country Kublai Khan, the Mongol emperor of China, now sent nine armies of China, when word came from Japan (in 1598) that Hideyoshi was Nobunaga''s great generals, as the rising power in Japan. This took place five thousand years or more ago, and for a long time the Fortunately for the young emperor, the great princes, having no fear of The long reign of the great emperor had not been confined to wars with The war that followed continued for twelve years, the armies of The "sublime" emperor, the supreme head of the great realm of China and War between China and Japan was at hand. 32086 In Japan the scenic work of a play is handled by one man alone, and that point of view of a picture, it is wrong, for in a work of art the frame possible, a little flower placed in a pot--bending it this way and that Japanese painters have a great admiration for Michael Angelo''s work, and Japanese artists study a great deal from life, and in order to draw a artist saw his picture complete in his mind, he began with the little characteristic of Japanese pictures, an artist must first fill his brush A bough or a tree in a Japanese room looks exactly like a real as compared with the work of a great Japanese master in the art of Japan at the present time this little man is known as Mr. Inchie. Little Inchie and I, as I have said, soon became great friends. 33051 A long long time ago there lived an old man and an old woman. the old man went to the mountains to cut grass; and the old woman went to give the peach to her old man to eat. When she cut the peach in two, out came a child from the large kernel. Seeing this the old couple rejoiced, and named the child Momotaro, or Little Peachling, because he came out of a peach. Then first a dog came to the side of the way and said; "Momotaro! So Momotaro took a dumpling out of his pouch and After this Akandoji the chief of the devils said he would surrender all "Out with your riches then;" said Momotaro laughing. Great was the joy of the old man and the old woman when Momotaro came JAPANESE FAIRY TALE SERIES. 1. Momotaro or Little Peachling. 7. The Old Man and the Devils. 33131 like the sense of sight, or of touch,--it is a natural gift. into your life, and the truth which lies in the beauty of all things has all nations, and it is ever active in getting hold of men''s natures and of Europe has given her people the power of organisation, which has vision of beauty in nature and the power of realising it in your life. science, but not its wrong application in life,--a mere imitation of our life''s growth, or else when the time comes they easily give way and are The living man has his true protection in his spiritual showing signs of defeat at the hands of politics, and her modern races, has produced from her inner life and not from her mere power of fascinated the modern Eastern mind by the mere exhibition of her power. nature of man. 33616 "It would look queer," said the god, "and you would be called eccentric Four times on earth and once elsewhere Shijiro Arisuga thought the little Arisuga presently came to know, by the subtle presence and I am not a child," said Arisuga again, haughtily, "and I know "I sing a war-song, little moon-maid, because I am now a soldier," cried "Oh, yes," whispered the little girl, "the gods will love you. "Then," answered the little girl, "I can die the great death, too, and "Little one," said Arisuga, in pity, "we have lived and loved together "Isonna!" laughed Hoshiko, "if you were not so great, lord. "Isonna," said her mistress, "ugly little beast, you are to marry the "Little Lady Hoshi," said Shijiro Arisuga, to her bruised heart, "there Arisuga looked and laughed, but saw no god. "Let the honorable American lord so think," said Arisuga. "Laugh!" said Arisuga. "I am Shijiro Arisuga," said Hoshiko. 34324 Landscape gardens evolve to reflect Zen aesthetic ideals Ashikaga monasteries to produce the Zen-inspired classic Japanese house. arranging is a link between Zen and the Japanese love of nature, Zen gardens present you with new pleasures and insights each time you Japanese to "explain" a Zen rock garden and he will inspect you to become ingrained in Japanese life and Zen art, that the ability to the school of Sung-style ink painting, the Zen ritual of ceremonial tea, the art of flower arranging, and new styles of Zen-influenced of Chinese styles and the maturity of Japanese Zen art. Japanese Zen had found its art, and soon Yoshimitsu had THE ASHIKAGA age of Zen art is remembered today not only for gardens, Japanese monks journeyed to China to study the new faith of Zen, they Japan''s finest poet, who finally brought Zen to Japanese poetry: the Chinese and "Zen" in Japanese. 34341 besides a volume by several well-known Japanese, entitled _Japan by the some kind of general introduction to the Japanese views of life. With respect to the Japanese proper, the only thing known about their thought of after-life and the Confucian ideas of broad-day morality. Society of Japan in 1894, entitled ''Developments of Japanese Buddhism,'' Of the sects which have exercised great influence on Japanese mentality, clans had been forming themselves in different parts of Japan and Nippon (which corresponds to your word Japan), is no purely Japanese For an average Japanese mind in present Japan, thanks to the same forces already at work in the formation of Japanese thought, like formative element of the Japanese spirit. have exercised so great an influence on our mind, no Japanese will archaic time liked to express their thoughts in a measured form of which had not its present meaning, viz., ''the spirit of Japan'' in the 3496 35511 industrial condition and the characteristics of Japanese working women, In her excellent work on _Japanese Girls and Women_ Miss Bacon writing steam power, and the great factory system, taking girls and young women As already stated, many girls prefer factory work to that of domestic part of her time for fifteen years to work among factory girls, and on number of years show that out of every 1,000 girls, 270 work less than factory work 23 die within one year of their return to their homes, and of the girls who leave home for factory work never return. conditions of the working women of Japan, in the next chapter I give the [Illustration: MATSUYAMA WORKING GIRLS'' HOME One man remarked that the girls in the Home do better work majority of these girls lived and worked at the time when our Home was moral and religious conditions of the working girls of Japan, and is a 36822 37186 speak highly of Japanese fine art, praising Japan as a country devoted literature and art of foreign countries to Japan so that a common Japan is a country inhabited by a people differing remarkably in racial national experience of the nature stated above, the history of Japan is non-European countries, for example in China and especially in Japan. evolution of national progress in general, Japanese history must be a groups of people, and a history of the country with its provinces. called Kutara, various Chinese historical works, and a history of Japan continue for a very long time in our country, the learned groups, who of the country for a long time, so that, superficially observed, Japan difficult for the new Shogunate, in a country where the Emperor has ever Without doubt Japan under the Tokugawa Shogunate was a country governed the new method in a country like the Japan of that time, where Chinese 38228 very little mother with round eyes and lips as red as June''s, only now "June," she said at last, "you are going to be a soldier like father, Seki San lived in a regular toy house, which was like a lot of little like dogs," June explained to Seki San. All day long the two boys played down by the river bank, paddling about "Of course," said the man taking June''s hand and looking at it as a "So your father is a soldier!" said Monsieur, and June noticed that a "Good-by," said June to Monsieur, "I hope you''ll come back and play with Then Seki would begin: "Very long times ago, lived very good little boy, "SEKI SAN, have you got a big enderlope?" June asked the question from "I tell you ''bout him, June," said Seki San. Monsieur put his hand on June''s head, and looking straight in the 38853 The elder Hojo, though a crafty and long-headed statesman, made a sad He forgot that old Nara, as lord in waiting, was likely Kugés flew to arms to avenge their outraged lord, but No-Kami, with his wife, my lord will surely give us the lives of the devoted elders. My lord Hojo No-Kami must be brought to yield. Sampei looked down and blushed, not ill-pleased that his lord should "You see, Lord Nara, that ''tis our master''s wish," responded No-Kami "No-Kami, my brother, give me this man''s life!" Hojo looked so surly, that Sampei felt the moment unpropitious for So Sampei, at his wits'' end, like a dutiful son, climbed the No-Kami looked around, his eyes bloodshot like the dead. with No-Kami''s wife, Sampei must desire his death. must not be too long delay, lest my lord No-Kami should come home. She would take her lord in hand,--be a long-headed 3991 3992 3993 3994 40120 SCENE: The room of O Toyo in the palace. TIME OF ACTION: Between 10 and 12 p.m. NOTE.--According to the old Japanese legend, the soul of a cat can enter sleeping mat and head rest. To guard thy sleep-[_Startled, the others watch him closely._] A cat--aye, truly Better than prayers is the cure [_Eyeing_ RUITEN.] He begged to be allowed to guard thy sleep He heard, in this room, O Toyo Came a cat-call from the garden-[_Comes down._] The second night of Ito Soda''s watching R. a little and_ BUZEN _re-entering after_ ITO SODA _goes up C._] O TOYO _is heard singing in the garden._] KASHIKU _follows much less disturbed at any fear of a cat Can anything soothe more than thy lips, And you let wild words fall from your lips It were a fitting thing to kiss thy lord. the best plays and entertainment books published in America and England. 4018 41437 the Taira chief) heard of his brother Tametomo''s doings, he said: Drawing near the great roofed gate, Yoshitomo called aloud to Tametomo By the time Tametomo reached the city, his father and his brothers had last one day, when Tametomo had reached a good old age, happy in the day by day she told him stories of his great and good father--of his and when a knight or any man carrying a sword passed by, Benkei would In the story of Yoshitsune very little was said about Benkei; this, pitied her little nephew Benkei, and going to her brother said: Raiko listened attentively to all the old man said, and then answered: Then the old men expressed great joy; their faces beamed like the sun as "The time has come!" said Raiko, springing to his feet, and motioning to He said he knew nothing of the ways of a lord''s house; and 41579 was quite young when she called that Kimiko her professional sister. "An exceedingly wonderful girl," is what Kimika says of Kimiko. private school kept by an old samurai--where the little girls squatted mother, my child, has been a great lady, and therefore cannot know how before Kimiko became famous; the little sister was put to school. The young man who had wanted to die for love of a dancing-girl was life, and for the sake of my little sister, I have lived in hell. have but a little time to stay!" And having answered, the ghost passes; Next day the mother asked O-Toyo: Japanese child-life is mostly passed in temple courts; the mothers in that street liked to have their little ones play there, little son, who died, and the pain became too great for her mother''s was with us she often said that she would like a very little haka. 41722 Finally it became Nippon Dai Nippon--Great Japan. old Japanese screens that had travelled round the world back to Japan upon the floor with little heat, the Japanese suffer a great deal from delightful little gardens of tree and stone and water arranged in a way The third of March is the Dolls'' Festival, the great day of the year for At all times of the year the Japanese have miniature the third month of the old Japanese year, instead of on the third day of in Japan for twenty-five years, having had the present Emperor at one for, like most people of the East, the Japanese are especially fond of Japan is a poor country, but some people feel it is time The Japanese love to decorate their houses with flowers, but we might Like many other things in Japan to-day, her art of painting is in the 42304 42365 Yuki''s robe, in deference to hours of pleading from Gwendolen and Pierre Miss Yuki Onda of Tokio, Mrs. Jink,--Gwendolen''s most intimate school-friend, and my Oriental As Yuki and Gwendolen drew near, Mrs. Todd first perceived them. "It''s come, little girl," he whispered, with eyes as young and bright as "Yes," said Yuki in return, and caught Gwendolen''s hand as if for "Come, Yuki, do not look--I forbid it!" cried Pierre, vehemently. Pierre and Mrs. Todd approached Yuki''s cabin. "Gwendolen," said Yuki, in a very low voice, "do you see a long, green the room together, Mrs. Todd said to Yuki, "Your mother tells me that "Gwendolen, dear,--no!" said Yuki, pressing her hand. "No, not my father, and not Prince Hagané," said Yuki, simply. "Nay, little mother of my Yuki," said Hagané, reaching down a hand, "When Yuki comes to me to-night, and not before," said Pierre, 42427 Daunt''s gray eyes had been looking at him steadily, a little curiously. "Look here, Phil," he said, coming slowly back. "Never mind, Barbara," said the bishop, looking up from his newspaper. a cat''s and his hands look as if they wanted to crawl, like big white "Haru," said Barbara as the maid''s busy Japanese fingers went searching time I ever saw him without that smart-looking Japanese head-boy of his "Why," Patricia answered, "he looks something like that Japanese student For a long time in her blue and white room Barbara lay awake, This sounded a little like a ship''s bell--striking on a white yacht, Daunt, watching Barbara, saw the light leaping in her brown eyes, the "Look, Barbara," said Patricia. girdle, and his hands were full of what looked like small blue There came one such day when Daunt stood with Barbara by the huge stone "Look," said Barbara suddenly, and touched Daunt''s arm. 42732 by British Government -To conciliate Chinese as in days commodity by a British agent on the mere demand of a Chinese official, case, that the Chinese Government regarded the treaty of Nanking as a As regards the attitude of the Chinese Government towards foreigners places, or at Canton, generally with the Chinese natives; port limits, a trade which was invisible alike to Chinese and British prevailed between British and Chinese officials and people in Shanghai treaty consuls acted as trustees for the Chinese Government, there was which marked the opening of China to foreign trade. the successful establishment of trade at the new ports in China, Lord [20] The annual value of the whole foreign trade with China, imports characteristics of the two trading communities, foreign and Chinese. Trading facilities -Relations with Chinese Government -To trade as such the Chinese Government never seem to have 42747 facts make the study of this people''s ancient religious cult, which is designates the old, ancestral worship as a way of the gods distinct Shinto thought and in the Japanese civilization and government. Japanese mind and imagination Japan, as a place of residence, was far Elements of Animism.= The ancestor-worship of Shinto can not be The Communal Cult.= The next phase of the Shinto worship to be of the great temples that the Shinto worship is seen in its most the sovran gods." How early these rituals of worship were committed deities, and there were many gods who received worship in a number for the worship of the Shinto gods, the ministers of State assemble, Shinto and Buddhist worship of Japan. the Shinto cult, that the Japanese are exceedingly religious. The Shinto cult is essentially a religion of race and national temples, so that the Japanese would always speak of Shinto shrines as 43541 day, the foreign consuls continued to date their official reports from four times what he received from the Foreign Office, and he went where the Tycoon''s government and the foreign ministers at Yedo." Itô came on board one day with a couple of men who, he said, were that the foreign ministers had visited the Tycoon at Ozaka all was to be Yedo Foreign Department, who had come from Yokohama with Sir Harry, and these two places, and so content foreigners, while the Japanese went on Next day the two great men came again, and the Nagasaki murders were the called next day on the foreign representatives they came to us last of Foreign Representatives had addressed Notes to the Japanese Government The foreign representatives left Kiôto the following day. Japanese ministers for Foreign Affairs on the other. Next day I went up to Yedo on board a Japanese steamer belonging to the 43833 LOTUS BLOSSOM is the dearest little girl in the world. time one little yellow boy so far forgot himself as to call a lady bad The little Japanese girl''s clothes are pretty as well as comfortable. This was the way that Lotus Blossom''s little brother received his name. If her little brother should step on Lotus Blossom''s doll and break One morning not long after this, poor little Lotus Blossom woke up Lotus Blossom and Toyo are sure of a good time Lotus Blossom and Toyo start out every morning with little satchels Next best to New Year''s, our little girl cousin likes the Feast of Lotus Blossom and her little friends, as well as her father and Toyo enjoys the day as well as Lotus Blossom, but still he is looking A delightful story of a little boy who has many adventures by means of 45518 "By the whole family you mean Jack, of course," remarked Mary Lee. Carter laughed a little confusedly. "Do let us go past the little house where we used to live," said Nan "Oh, well, you know what Jack is," said Nan with an effort to be "Oh, yes, I know I am," Nan said a little ruefully. "Such queer looking people," said Mary Lee as they started forth, things Japanese," replied Mary Lee. Their rooms looked out upon the water, and for some time they gave Nan told her experience with one little girl and baby, Mary Lee a little while anyhow," said Mary Lee, but Nan was not so sure that she "For my part," said Nan one day, as she and Mary Lee were being drawn "Dear old Jack," said Nan with a sigh. "What do you think Mr. Harding asked me the other day?" said Jack 47002 "Come, Prince of Nagato," said the young man, laying his hand on his "Alas!" said the old woman; "shall we have time to dress our master?" "If I stay away," said Fide-Yori, "I shall never know the truth, for "Come, Loo!" said the Prince, "run out into the gardens for a little "Princes," said the Shogun to the nobles who remained with him, "return "I must leave you, master," said the Prince of Nagato; "I must call "Thanks, generous Prince," said Sado, kneeling at Nagato''s feet. "It''s the advance-guard of Hieyas'' army," said the Prince of Nagato in "If you hear shots, come to our rescue," said the Prince of Nagato to "I have long loved you," said the Prince. "Then you think that she lives in Osaka?" said the Prince of Nagato. "Oh, Master!" said the Prince, covering his eyes with his hand, "do not 47688 But, though modelled upon an actual landscape, the Japanese garden Japanese gardener intends not only to present in his model the features Japanese garden of the best type is, like any true work of art, the to model his design, a pine tree grew upon the side of a hill. The Japanese artist who is called upon to design a new garden will furnished with natural hills, trees and water, the gardener will, of Showing some characteristic garden accessories,--stepping-stones, Extreme importance is attached to the use in gardens of natural stones, stones have been arranged, the distribution of garden vegetation is considered; for the garden rocks form only the skeleton of the design The architectural accessories of the Japanese garden,--bridges, Important accessories in the Japanese garden are Stepping-Stones. gardens such stones form one of the principal features of the design. numbers refer to the titles of the principal hills, stones, tree clumps 48012 _Aprill 6._--The king sent Oyen Dono to entreate me to let hym have Adams sent me word that the small junck of Jno. Yoosen which went from Cochinchina for Camboja the last yeare is now Hollanders sent to desire hym to goe up with Capt. herupon I went to Oyen Dono, the kinges governor, and tould hym what Dono had advized hym that themperour had sent 2 greate men for Gonrok Donos men, with the King of Firandos _bongews_, came to look on Firando this day; and Gonrok Dono sent me a present of 2 silk And the king and Gonrok Dono sent for me and the Hollandes capt. of Firando, lent to hym, and that the Japons have sent our English men Dono have com at us these 5 or 6 daies, nor soe much as sent to us. 5173 To-day Zen as a living faith can be found in its pure form only among Mahayana Zen, and calls the last by the name of the Buddha''s Holy gives a short life, in Dirghagama-sutra, of each of the six Buddhas, Bodhidharma as the best explanation of Zen, by Gunabhadra in A.D. 433; Saddharma-pundarika-sutra, in its complete form, by Kumarajiva Shan said that some practise Zen in order to attain Enlightenment, founder of the Japanese Ten Dai Sect, known as Den Gyo Dai Shi. After visiting holy places and great monasteries, he came home, This Universal Life, according to Zen, pillars the heaven, Therefore man, according to Zen, is not good-natured nor bad-natured For these reasons Zen proposes to call man Buddha-natured or [FN#190] Zen is often called the Sect of Buddha-mind, as it lays Buddha, or Universal Life conceived by Zen, ''What is life and death?'' ''What is the real nature of mind?'' and so 5350 Japan 56 per cent of the cultivated fields, 11,000 square miles, is The average area of the rice field in Japan is less than five square grave lands had become nearly naked soil, as seen in Fig. 27 where a Fields which had matured two crops of rice during the long summer, applied to rice, Fig. 45 showing a field as seen in Japan. lands is largely used upon the rice fields, more than sixteen inches inches of water applied to the rice fields of the three main islands a closer view than Fig. 27 of the farmer watering his little field The basal food crop of the people of China, Korea and Japan is rice, of water rice on the plains land at 44 bushels per acre, and that of cultivated land produces a crop of water rice each year and 7.96 per 54815 Nattie and Grant, seeing their new friend to the door. Grant and Nattie left ten minutes before the end for the purpose of Before either Grant or Mori could offer an objection, Nattie darted from to do, then he approached a clerk, and asked him to announce to Mr. Black that Grant Manning wished to see him on important business. When Nattie left his brother and Mori in the office of Black & Company, Before either Nattie or Mori could reply, the front door was thrown Both Nattie and Mori instinctively left the conversation to Grant. hour Nattie left a tea house on his way to the place of destination. Nattie Manning, and from the other--Ralph Black! "Mori, you are a friend indeed," said Nattie, when the young Japanese sea, Grant and Nattie and Mori finally scrambled to their feet and words that will put an end for all time to Grant and Nattie and Mori. 56985 At breakfast the day before the time fixed for Frank''s departure, Mr. Bassett told his son that he must make the most of his journey, enjoy it "She''s a nice girl," said Fred to the Doctor as they made their way to after day, and on a great ocean like the Pacific there is little to Fred said the best thing to prevent a horse running away was to sell him and looked at a great variety of Japanese goods, but followed the advice "We think we want to write home now, Doctor," said Frank, "and wish to great cities of Japan, but they are far less frequent than in New York "I know what that is," said Fred, who came along at the moment Frank "That is one point," said Frank, "in which I think the Japanese have [Illustration: A JAPANESE WAR-JUNK OF THE OLDEN TIME.] 578 cities, modernization means urbanization. high-handed, arrogant city, in order to increase its benefits and cities are left with wastes -both industrial and human -and When farmers have been deceived by the cities, believe the food exist, urban pollution -which is the product of the cities'' Immediately the city people went from farming village to first and foremost, it is money that the city uses to plunder the the city as the means to destroy humanity. survive, and "Prosperity for the cities!" means that the people urbanization and begin the return of the city to the country, we Is It Possible to Produce Food without the City? is impossible to get people out of the cities and onto the farm. As long as you exploit the farmers, and live in the city with The more the farmers work (the more food they offer the city), 57861 The satisfying thing about Japan is that it always looks exactly like little Japanese house with its few feet of garden which appeals Like most large foreign-style buildings in Japan, it is architecturally in Japan than that of a Japanese woman dressed in other than the native intractable, like American women who, according to the Japanese idea, by the fact that it is served by a lovely little Japanese hand] of Japanese men and women who have lived for years in the United States, Japanese, and for a number of years did not even meet Americans who came The Japanese business man''s custom of taking a day off whenever it in kind, saying that I thought they also looked like Japanese, and very geisha in Japan the average Japanese husband will have them at his Within, the streets look much like other Japanese Japanese Parliament met in the year following, 1890, when Japan adopted 58378 follow little Umé San through the year, to play with her dolls on the said Tei; but she went home and told her mother that she thought Umé "Now let us look at Umé''s plum tree," said the grandmother. "Perhaps it is under the plum tree, O Yuki San," said Umé, and ran to trees blossom, that I have nearly forgotten it," said Tei; but Umé was in the garden," said Umé as she clapped her hands for old Maru, the to listen to honorable stories at another," said Umé to the dolls as she "Go and get the spade from the garden-house, Umé," Tara said to his "O Haha San," said Umé, "when we took little Yuki San to the temple for "Yes, you may come with me," said Tei to Umé, after asking the honorable When at last Umé said her honorable good-night to her father and mother 58699 "Jinx," said Sunny persuasively, "I do not like to stay ad this Japan "They do nod lig'' Japanese girl?" asked Sunny sadly. "Jerry," said Sunny, in a very little voice, her small eerie face Sunny put one hand on either of Jerry''s arms, and her touch had a Jerry, as Sunny passed in the arms of the light-footed Jinx, whose hand), caused Sunny to slip from the arm of the chair onto Jerry''s knee. Sunny!" said Jerry, shaking his head. "Jerry," said Sunny, "I going to wear Jinx''s ring _until_ that man also For two days Sunny waited for Jerry to return. window." Sunny pointed the lady out to Jerry, and that young man''s face Jerry, raising to her eyes what looked to Sunny like a gold stick on "Yes," said Sunny, with such a look that Jerry''s mother''s frown relaxed It might be, on the other hand, said Katy, that Sunny''s mother had 58930 5960 Yuki Chan remembered her mother''s beautiful smile of love as she All her short life Yuki Chan had lived in a house of love, but no veil hand with Yuki Chan came love, and bound the hearts of the man and It was something every little girl must know, and if Yuki Chan''s "Yuki San one big bad girl; she no remember li''l fish. eyes looked straight into Yuki San''s with such a challenge of For a moment Yuki San stood with the book in her hand, then she said Merrit San say ''Merican girl speak love with Merrit San so many time call me little sister, and he say my soul all One day I take Merrit San with me to very old temple. big ''Merica you call back "God bless you, Yuki San," and with my heart "Ah, Yuki San, little snow-girl like you should not know the world. 5979 forms of the Shinto worship of ancestors are the Domestic Cult, the Now the Japanese family, like the ancient Greek or Roman question of marriage in the old Japanese family was a matter of [*The laws of succession in Old Japan differed considerably according To modern thinking, the position of woman in the old Japanese family communal cult in Japan; for the history of the Japanese nation is not The best authority on the local customs and laws of Old Japan, John ancestors of certain noble families of early times; and their temples of ruler, which ancestor-worship in its simple form shows us." Mr. Spencer remarks in the same paragraph on the fact that in ancient general rule, if the family be Buddhist; but the Shinto gods are also the dead, according to ancient Japanese thinking, continued to exist to regard their dead as gods in the ancient sense, the Japanese 60367 612 representatives in the National Diet, determined that we shall Cabinet, shall perform the following acts in makers of state on rights guaranteed to the people by this Constitution shall be All people shall have the right to receive an power, and shall be the sole law-making organ of the State. The Diet shall consist of two Houses, namely the Both Houses shall consist of elected members, (2) The number of the members of each House shall be fixed Houses shall be fixed by law. Members of both Houses shall receive appropriate Members of both Houses shall not be held liable (2) Matters relating to impeachment shall be provided by law. Cabinet shall report to the Diet and the people on the state of more of all the members of each House and shall thereupon be This Constitution shall be the supreme law of of State, members of the Diet, judges, and all other public 613 Imperial House Law and the Constitution. The Imperial Diet shall pass its vote Our present and future subjects shall forever assume the duty of in other laws, shall be in accordance with the respective the provisions of the Imperial House Law. subject shall be determined by law. house of no Japanese subject shall be entered or searched without The Imperial Diet shall consist of two Houses, a Both Houses shall vote upon projects of law The Imperial Diet shall be convoked every year. The Imperial Diet shall be convoked every year. A session of the Imperial Diet shall last during for in the present Constitution and in the Law of the Houses, The expenditures of the Imperial House shall be No modification of the Imperial House Law shall by the Imperial House Law. by the Imperial House Law. Constitution, or into the Imperial House Law, during the time of 62121 appear, the traveler soon comes to like these little vehicles. [Illustration: A JAPANESE TEMPLE.] The Japanese are usually small their women seem like girls; their [Illustration: A JAPANESE BRIDGE.] [Illustration: A JAPANESE LADY EN ROUTE.] [Illustration: A JAPANESE DOCTOR OF THE OLD STYLE.] [Illustration: A JAPANESE LADY.] [Illustration: A JAPANESE BEAUTY.] [Illustration: A JAPANESE SHOP.] [Illustration: A JAPANESE FAMILY MOVING.] [Illustration: A JAPANESE AT PRAYER.] [Illustration: A JAPANESE BED.] [Illustration: JAPANESE TEA-HOUSE.] [Illustration: TWO MODES OF TRAVEL IN JAPAN.] [Illustration: ENTRANCE TO A JAPANESE TEMPLE.] [Illustration: INTERIOR OF A JAPANESE TEMPLE.] The streets in Kioto, like those of most Japanese cities, are usually [Illustration: A HONG-KONG STREET--IN THE CHINESE QUARTER.] [Illustration: AN OLD CHINESE FORT, CANTON RIVER.] [Illustration: CHINESE BOATS, CANTON.] [Illustration: HALL IN A CHINESE HOUSE.] once said to me: "The more you see of the Japanese the less you will like [Illustration: THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA.] 63181 "The last was like the moon," said the young man, laughing. long, blue eyes looking at him mistily, she was an eerie little creature A look of relief had come over the girl''s face when Jack had cried out Jack Bigelow regarded the attempt of the nakoda and little Miss ---(he Then she said: "You pay more money ad liddle girl lige me whad nod been "Look here, Yuki," he said, with a disagreeable glint in his eyes, Suddenly he felt her light little hand on his face. Every day, all unknown to Yuki, her husband looked in her little "I want to know just who you are, my little wife," he suddenly said. Had Jack followed Yuki on the night she went out of his house and life, It was two years from the day when Jack and Yuki had married each other 63530 Painters: A Tale of Old Japan." Yoichi Tenko, the painter, [Sidenote: I] Kimi was loved of Tenko Kimi watched him, young and proud, Painting by the purple sea. He could paint her tree and flower Kimi watched his wings expand: Why she wept, said Tenko. Drifting over the sea: Three long years while Kimi dreamed Small white hands in the temple raised _Rose-white temple nigh the bay, Over the sea from Tenko._ Over the sea from Tenko._ Said, "You shall wed him, O Kimi": Painting the rose-red islands, Yoichi Tenko, the painter Yoichi Tenko, the painter Yoichi Tenko, the painter Left me," whispered Tenko, "Fairer far," said Tenko. Is a flower," Sawara said! "So it is," said Tenko. "So it is," said Tenko. Great Sawara, the painter, [Sidenote: VII] Little O Kimi came. "Kimi," he said, "I am wedded! White as a drifting blossom This is art," said Tenko! 685 dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 the second bomb on the industrial section of the city of Nagasaki, result in both cities of the following effects of the explosions: number of high explosive bombs were dropped on the city. Japanese cities which of the two bombs had been the most effective. damage in Hiroshima was much more complete; the center of the city was GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE ATOMIC EXPLOSIONS GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE ATOMIC EXPLOSIONS In Hiroshima, steel frame buildings suffered severe structural damage In general, the atomic bomb explosion damaged all windows and ripped the Japanese cities as a result of the atomic bombing. damage and point directly under the air-burst explosion of the bomb, is damage was not achieved in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs, the explosion of the bomb at 8:15, almost the entire city was destroyed at 7237 stay, new supplies of fire-wood outside the great Hindu burning ground kindly old man who pressed handfuls of little white nuts upon us and who crossing a noble Mogul bridge, we should come to a little walled city, When on my way home I found myself in an American picture gallery, either in San Francisco, Chicago, Boston or New York, I lingered longest American clubs I have watched quite old friends and associates whose necessary to visit America in order to know what Americans are like Americans in America and in England. When it comes to the choice of news, one cannot believe that American Not all the good country houses, big and little, are, however, old. same feeling in the other great American cities. English city, and yet both in San Francisco and New York I dined in I reached New York I seemed to be the only man in America who carried 7523 "Where are you going to wear all these lovely things?" asked Miss One little girl of six comes every day with her blind Good bye for a little while; I''ve stolen the time to write you this, There was a little American Missionary, who was going home to One little girl got up at prayers the other night, and, folding telling about the day I started to school, how I came home and said little man with lots of brass buttons and a big voice came and asked the old man came over and asked if he might look at my jacket. Just think of plucky little old Japan like school girls, and laugh and chatter as if life were a big Since writing you last, I have sent my little sick girl home. I know little these days outside of the kindergarten and the 769 eighteenth century became, in fact, tea-houses, the resort of wits like The Schools of Tea. Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its Like Art, Tea has its periods and its schools. outsider to appreciate the subtle beauty of the tea-room, its principles All our great tea-masters were students of Zen and attempted to When a tea-master has arranged a flower to his satisfaction he will flower-worship of the tea-masters formed only a part of their aesthetic like the other works of art in the tea-room, was subordinated to the The tea-masters held that real appreciation of art is only possible to Thus the tea-master strove to be something more than the artist,--art indeed, to find any department of art in which the tea-masters have Great as has been the influence of the tea-masters in the field of art, 7936 When the Japanese decided to come out and take their place among the great When Japanese boys and girls go to school, they make very low bows to their My little Japanese servant-boy was in the room, and as I went At the age of three the Japanese boy is taken to the temple to give thanks The word "obedience" has a large part in the life of a Japanese boy; it But at the present moment, for great sections of Japanese society, the old A house among the poorer sort of Japanese consists of one large room in the there is in a Japanese house for servants to do. Tea-houses and temples run together very easily in the Japanese mind, for And its tea-houses and temples, and the smiling rickshaw-man." A Japanese lives in a house largely built of Festival is the great Japanese holiday of the year. 8128 And within a little while she died; and the longsleeved robe was a second time presented to the temple. Buddhist tablets, incense is burned at certain times; and in even of fire" to be used for burning incense--(one kind is called come on the following day at the exact time desired." formed of hundreds of thousands of different kinds of incense, Probably you have heard of the Japanese teaceremonies, and their curious Buddhist history; and I suppose One night, at a very late hour, Tomozo heard the voice of a woman ancient Chinese books of love between the living and the dead; and by the glow of a night-lantern began to recite the UboDarani-Kyo. For a long time he chanted the words, comprehending time she lived--had O-Tsuyu appeared so beautiful; and Shinzaburo 1 According to the old Japanese way of counting time, this 1 This story may be found in the curious old Japanese book called 8130 another and lower stand supporting a temple bell shaped like a great To the right of the temple is a little shrine, filling the air with temples, a monstrous shape appears, like a double-faced head freshly cut memory of days passed in Japanese gardens and temples and tea-houses, to the blue peaked roof of a little temple high-perched on the green gods bear in their hands, a small Japanese doll, and a little Shinto shrine, with a torii before it like a great ideograph shaped in like the straw roofs of those little wayside temples curiously enough slide open my little Japanese paper window to look out upon the morning The great courts of Buddhist temples are places of rare interest for became that place where stands the temple of the great god at whose This little shrine, which I see now for the first time (Kitzuki temple 8133 little, of the folk-lore of a Japanese garden; and if you want to know little hand, said, ''Come,'' and the tree followed him, gliding along the Little Japanese girls who play with insects or small animals Gods.'' On this is usually placed a small Shinto shrine (miya) containing thread or coloured paper twine, dainty bits of deliciously tinted crapesilk, delicate steel springs, and curious little basket-shaped things The hair of little girls from seven to eight years old is in rule the Japanese student shows little originality in the line of curious light upon the simple-hearted ways of Japanese life and thought beautiful old Japanese traditions, like the legend of the fisher that tree bear marks like the marks of little teeth; for in Japanese But it came to pass a little time ago, that certain old men of Matsue with another little boy; and that on the way he saw a great white Face 8868 She evidently thought as soon as a fellow finishes school, money comes ''Badger'' for the principal, ''Red Shirt'' for the head-teacher, "Won''t you go fishing?" asked Red Shirt He talks in a strangely womanish constant visitor at the house of Red Shirt, and wherever he went, Clown As Clown used to follow Red Shirt like I returned home and got ready, and having joined Red Shirt and Clown at "By the way, how would it look," said Clown, "if we place Madonna by "Hard to fish sea-breams in six fathoms," said Red Shirt as he dropped a "Goruki sounds like the name of a Russian literator," said Red Shirt. "Yes, just like a Russian literator," Clown at once seconded Red Shirt. "Well, let''s be going," said Red Shirt suddenly. "Of Red Shirt and Porcupine, which is a better fellow?" One day Red Shirt asked me to come over to his house as he had something 8882 discern the true color of Japanese life, either intellectual or the open ports and their little foreign settlements, there exists (1) In one limited sense, Western art has influenced Japanese. The Japanese man of the people--the skilled laborer able to post; there are men little more than thirty years old who have powerful appeal to the emotion of a race whose soul-life differs those two little words,--"Good-night." Who she was I do not know: down, a Japanese woman will lift her long sleeve before her face it sets me thinking about the possible influence on Japanese art By night a Japanese house with only its shoji closed looks like a Japanese child-life, is mostly passed in temple curios he visits a Japanese house;--the foreign dealer would than a thousand years ago are Japanese to-day. During those years he saw Western civilization as few Japanese Japanese thought the dead are not less real than the living.