Exotics and Retrospectives

Off again.... Way worse and worse.... Feel a new distress due to the rarefaction of the air. Heart beating as in a high fever.... Slope has become very rough. It is no longer so...

In one sense we are certainly wrong when we say that the loveliness of a scene brings tears to the eyes. It cannot be the loveliness of the scene;--it is the longing of generati...

Once only, after the period of childhood, I knew this emotion in a strong form. It was remarkable as representing the vivid projection of a dream-fear into waking consciousness;...

They died with the music and the moon,--but not utterly. Whenever in dream the memory of that melody returns, again I feel the long soft shuddering of the dead,--again I feel th...

Behind my dwelling, but hidden from view by a very lofty curtain of trees, there is a Buddhist temple, with a cemetery attached to it. The cemetery itself is in a grove of pines...

As a rule we recognize faces by the modes of expression habitually worn,--by the usually prevalent character-tones of them,--rather than by any steady memory of lines. But no fa...

Besides expressing a pious hope for the higher happiness of the departed, or uttering some assurance of special conditions in the spiritual world, a great number of kaimyō also...

Thus it appears that for more than eleven hundred years the Japanese have been making poems about frogs; and it is at least possible that verses on this subject, which have been...

All but one of the papers composing this volume appear for the first time. The little essays, or rather fantasies, forming the second part of the book, deal with experiences in...

This would appear to be the oldest Japanese record of an insect-hunt,--though the amusement may have been invented earlier than the period of Kaho. By the seventeenth century it...

There are different varieties of this much-prized insect. The _abura-kirigirisu_, a day-singer, is a delicate creature, and must be carefully nourished in confinement. The _tach...

And a still more wonderful text--(to my thinking, the most remarkable of all Buddhist texts)--declares that the world itself, phantom though it be, is yet not different from Min...