Shadowings

THE body was cold as ice; the heart had long ceased to beat: yet there were no other signs of death. Nobody even spoke of burying the woman. She had died of grief and anger at h...

But this dread of the touch would itself be the result of experience,--chiefly, I think, of prenatal experience stored up in the individual by inheritance, like the child's fear...

Furthermore, I find that whenever automatic, or at least semi-conscious, action is replaced by reasoned action--in plainer words, whenever I begin to think about my movements--I...

Now, in the seventh month of the same year, there was a female pilgrimage (_nyonin-mode_) to the great Buddhist temple called Miidera, in the neighboring town of Otsu; and Totar...

Then the Yamabushi, fleeing, came as he fled to the river of Amoda, and cried to the boatman of the river of Amoda,--"O good boatman, good sir boatman, behind me comes a maid pu...

THERE was a young Samurai of Kyoto who had been reduced to poverty by the ruin of his lord, and found himself obliged to leave his home, and to take service with the Governor of...

There are many old lyrics in the above form. Here is another song, of different construction, also from the old drama: there is no refrain, but there is the same peculiar suspen...

THE _minmin-zemi_ begins to sing in the Period of Greatest Heat. It is called "_min-min_" because its note is thought to resemble the syllable "_min_" repeated over and over aga...

This suffix _ko_ is written with the Chinese character meaning "child," and must not be confused with the word _ko_, written with a different Chinese character, and meaning "lit...

Names signifying light or color seem to us the most aesthetic of all _yobina_; and they probably seem so to the Japanese. Nevertheless the relative purport even of these names c...

Now the appellation of _Bara-Musume_--much more rational as a simile than many of our own floral comparisons--can seem strange only because it is not in accord with our poetical...

"Nay!" cried out the Souls; "for the strong there is a goal,--the goal that thou couldst not strive to gain. They will help to the fashioning of fairer worlds;--they will win to...