Gleanings in Buddha-Fields: Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East

I. A LIVING GOD II. OUT OF THE STREET III. NOTES OF A TRIP TO KYŌTO IV. DUST V. ABOUT FACES EN JAPANESE ART VI. NINGYŌ-NO-HAKA VII. IN ŌSAKA VIII. BUDDHIST ALLUSIONS IN JAPANESE...

Really, however, Hamaguchi did not have very long to wait before the first party of succor arrived,--a score of agile young peasants, who wanted to attack the fire at once. But...

I found it incomparably more original and attractive. Nearly all the pictures, thousands in number, were for sale, at prices ranging from three to fifty yen; and it was impossib...

Though announced for nine o'clock, the procession did not appear till nearly eleven; and the long waiting in those densely packed streets must have been a strain even upon Buddh...

For this Cosmic Apparition is more than evolution alternating with dissolution: it is infinite metempsychosis; it is perpetual palingenesis. Those old predictions of a bodily re...

In the representation of old age, the Japanese artist gives us all the wrinkles, the hollows, the shrinking of tissues, the "crow's-feet," the gray hairs, the change in the line...

The Ōsaka of 1896, covering a vast area has a population of about 670,000. As to extent and population, it is now only the second city of the empire; but it remains, as Count Ok...

The sensation received on passing out of the bright, narrow, busy streets of shops into the mouldering courts of Tennōji is indescribable. Even for a Japanese I imagine it must...

It is possible, as has been alleged (though I cannot believe it), that Western artists have little more to learn from the study of Japanese pictorial art. But I am quite sure th...

This song especially refers to unhappy love, and contains the substance of two Buddhist proverbs: _Tsuki ni murakumo, hana ni kazé_ (cloud-masses to the moon; wind to flowers);...

For the reader who has made any serious attempt to obtain a general idea of Buddhism, such citations are scarcely necessary; since the fundamental doctrine of the concatenation...

But in the case of the average seeker after truth, this refinement and ultimate decomposition of self can be effected only with lentor inexpressible. The phantom-individuality,...

[Footnote 3: One is reminded by this conception of Mr. Spencer's beautiful definition of Equanimity:--"Equanimity may be compared to white light, which, though composed of numer...

Now Sei, the mother of Katsugorō, had nightly to suckle her little daughter Tsuné, who was four years old;[5]--and Katsugorō therefore slept with his grandmother, Tsuya. Sometim...