In Ghostly Japan

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Little, Brown and Company, 1899 - 241 หน้า
 

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หน้า 173 - ALL that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage.
หน้า 238 - ... memories. There are tones that call up all ghosts of youth and joy and tenderness; — there are tones that evoke all phantom pain of perished passion; — there are tones that resurrect all dead sensations of majesty and might and glory — all expired exultations — all forgotten magnanimities. Well may the influence of music seem inexplicable to the man who idly dreams that his life began less than a hundred years ago! But the mystery lightens for whomsoever learns that the substance of Self...
หน้า 147 - Poetry in Japan is universal as the air. It is felt by everybody. It is read by everybody. It is composed by almost everybody — irrespective of class and * Kugane (gold) or, popularly, kogane. Kugane is the pronunciation of the days of the poet who lived twelve centuries ago. condition.
หน้า 188 - Under whatever disguise it takes refuge, whether fungus or oak, worm or man, the living protoplasm not only ultimately dies and is resolved into its mineral and lifeless constituents, but is always dying, and, strange as the paradox may sound, could not live unless it died.
หน้า 157 - AFTER LONG ABSENCE The garden that once I loved, and even the hedge of the garden — All is changed and strange: the moonlight only is faithful, — The moon alone remembers the charm of the time gone by!
หน้า 237 - Great music is a psychical storm, agitating to fathomless depths the mystery of the past within us. Or we might say that it is a prodigious incantation. There are tones that call up all ghosts of youth and joy and tenderness ; there are tones that evoke all phantom pain of perished passion ; there are tones that resurrect all dead sensations of majesty and might and glory, — all expired exultations, — all forgotten magnanimities.
หน้า 148 - In houses of the better class there are usually a number of gaku, or suspended tablets to be seen — each bearing, for all design, a beautifully written verse. But poems can be found upon almost any kind of domestic utensil — for example upon braziers, iron kettles, vases, wooden trays, lacquer ware, porcelains, chopsticks of the finer sort — even toothpicks! Poems are painted upon shop-signs, panels, screens, and fans. Poems are printed upon towels, draperies, curtains, kerchiefs, silk-linings,...
หน้า 151 - The old ethical teaching was somewhat like this : — " Are you very angry ? — do not say anything unkind, but compose a poem. Is your best-beloved dead ? — do not yield to useless grief, but try to calm your mind by making a poem. Are you troubled because you are about to die, leaving so many things unfinished ? — be brave, and write a poem on death!
หน้า 210 - Ox 1 — they would clutch and compress and torture. Only at the Hour of the Tiger the pain would cease. Yukiko cut off her hair, and became a mendicantnun — taking the religious name of Dassetsu. She had an ihai (mortuary tablet) made, bearing the...
หน้า 242 - New York Times. LITTLE, BROWN, & CO., PUBLISHERS 254 Washington Street, Boston...

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