...is to say, the supreme Enlightenment, the intellegence of Buddhahood itself. BITS OF POETRY I AMONG a people with whom poetry has been for centuries a...everywhere to be heard by the ear, and seen by the eye! As for audible poetry, wherever there is working there is singing. The toil of the fields and the labor...

...out in a fair hand and hung when framed in the temple of the tutelary deity as votive offerings. " Poetry in Japan is universal as the air. It is felt...everybody — irrespective of class and condition." These remarks of Lafcadio Hearn on modern Japan might well be applied to Old Japan, and with greater...