Category: Short Stories
The sword, however, was not to be found so easily. Jurobei was untiringly and incessantly on the alert, and week followed week in his fruitless search; however, his ardour was unabated, and firm was his resolution not to return until he could restore the missing treasure upon...
The sword, however, was not to be found so easily. Jurobei was untiringly and incessantly on the alert, and week followed week in his fruitless search; however, his ardour was u...
2. PART IIIThe temple bell was booming the hour of parting day as Jurobei disconsolately hurried home. All his attempts had failed to procure the money wherewith to pay Izæmon's debt to Bu...
3. PART IVIt was springtime, and in the town of Tokushima the cherry-blossoms were bursting into bloom. The second of March[7] had come, and Onoto Gunbei was secretly rejoicing in the wic...
4. Act I. The play begins with a scene in the open air. A new bridge hasbeen built near the town of Osaka, which can be seen with the hills and pine-trees in the distance. Numbers of Buddhist priests appear in gorgeous robes and offer prayers for th...
5. Act II. The curtain is pulled aside upon the maternal home of Kesa,a small thatched cottage in the country near Kyoto. The whole aspect of the little home denotes genteel poverty, tranquil retirement, and spotless cleanliness. The two ladies wh...
6. Act III opens upon the fine residence of Watanabe Wataru, the husbandof Kesa. The gleaming cream wood of the veranda and the posts, the fineness of the matting, the dainty white and gold of the walls and screens are all part of the exquisite refi...
7. SCENE I. Matsuo's cottage in Kyoto. Night.In the old capital of Kyoto, not far from the Imperial Palace, there lived a _samurai_ named Matsuo with his wife O Chiyo, and their little son Kotaro, eight years of age.
8. PART IISCENE: A village school kept by Takebe Genzo and his wife Tonami, both devoted vassals of the exiled Prime Minister, Michizane Sugawara. Among Takebe's pupils is the young Sugaw...