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-Title: Kimiko and Other Japanese Sketches
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@@ -47,7 +18,7 @@ COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
 
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-CAMBRIDGE · MASSACHUSETTS
+CAMBRIDGE · MASSACHUSETTS
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@@ -65,8 +36,8 @@ KIMIKO
       _Wasuraruru
     Mi naran to omo
       Kokoro koso
-    Wasuré nu yori mo
-      Omoi nari-keré._[1]
+    Wasuré nu yori mo
+      Omoi nari-keré._[1]
 
           [1] "To wish to be forgotten by the beloved is a soul-task
           harder far than trying not to forget."--_Poem by_ KIMIKO.
@@ -140,7 +111,7 @@ any renown in her profession, a geisha must be pretty or very clever;
 and the famous ones are usually both--having been selected at a very
 early age by their trainers according to the promise of such qualities.
 Even the commoner class of singing-girls must have some charm in their
-best years--if only that _beauté du diable_ which inspired the Japanese
+best years--if only that _beauté du diable_ which inspired the Japanese
 proverb that even a devil is pretty at eighteen.[2] But Kimiko was much
 more than pretty. She was according to the Japanese ideal of beauty;
 and that standard is not reached by one woman in a hundred thousand.
@@ -311,10 +282,10 @@ altogether displeased with Kimiko, because of her sympathy for their
 boy.
 
 Before going away, Kimiko attended the wedding of her young sister,
-Umé, who had just finished school. She was good and pretty. Kimiko had
+Umé, who had just finished school. She was good and pretty. Kimiko had
 made the match, and used her wicked knowledge of men in making it. She
 chose a very plain, honest, old-fashioned merchant--a man who could not
-have been bad, even if he tried. Umé did not question the wisdom of her
+have been bad, even if he tried. Umé did not question the wisdom of her
 sister's choice, which time proved fortunate.
 
 
@@ -385,7 +356,7 @@ other years passed; and there was happiness in the fairy-home where
 Kimiko had once been.
 
 There came to that home one morning, as if seeking alms, a traveling
-nun; and the child, hearing her Buddhist cry of "Ha--ï! ha--ï!" ran to
+nun; and the child, hearing her Buddhist cry of "Ha--ï! ha--ï!" ran to
 the gate. And presently a house-servant, bringing out the customary
 gift of rice, wondered to see the nun caressing the child, and
 whispering to him. Then the little one cried to the servant, "Let me
@@ -453,11 +424,11 @@ seek nourishment. O-Toyo found the lacquer thickly beaded with vapor
 day by day.
 
           [3] Such a repast, offered to the spirit of the absent one
-          loved, is called a _Kagé-zen_; lit., "Shadow-tray." The
+          loved, is called a _Kagé-zen_; lit., "Shadow-tray." The
           word _zen_ is also used to signify the meal served on
           the lacquered tray--which has feet, like a miniature table.
           So that the term "Shadow-feast" would be a better translation
-          of _Kagé-zen_.
+          of _Kagé-zen_.
 
 The child was her constant delight. He was three years old, and fond of
 asking questions to which none but the gods knew the real answers. When
@@ -481,7 +452,7 @@ see, but also of what she taught him to hear. The sloping way was
 through groves and woods, and over grassed slopes, and around queer
 rocks; and there were flowers with stories in their hearts, and trees
 holding tree-spirits. Pigeons cried _korup-korup_; and doves sobbed
-_owao_, _owao_; and cicadæ wheezed and fluted and tinkled.
+_owao_, _owao_; and cicadæ wheezed and fluted and tinkled.
 
 All those who wait for absent dear ones make, if they can, a pilgrimage
 to the peak called Dakeyama. It is visible from any part of the city;
@@ -551,7 +522,7 @@ softly sing to her boy the Izumo child-song to the moon:
 And up to the blue night would rise from all those wet leagues of
 labored field that great soft bubbling chorus which seems the very
 voice of the soil itself--the chant of the frogs. And O-Toyo would
-interpret its syllables to the child: _Mé kayui! mé kayui!_ "Mine
+interpret its syllables to the child: _Mé kayui! mé kayui!_ "Mine
 eyes tickle; I want to sleep."
 
 All those were happy hours.
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-KIMIKO AND OTHER JAPANESE SKETCHES
-
-
-By LAFCADIO HEARN
-
-
-BOSTON AND NEW YORK
-HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
-The Riverside Press Cambridge
-1923
-
-COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
-ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
-
-The Riverside Press
-CAMBRIDGE . MASSACHUSETTS
-PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.
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-Transcriber's Note: Dialect spellings, contractions and inconsistencies
-have been retained as printed. Words printed in italics are noted with
-underscores; _italics_.
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-
-KIMIKO
-
-      _Wasuraruru
-    Mi naran to omo
-      Kokoro koso
-    Wasure nu yori mo
-      Omoi nari-kere._[1]
-
-          [1] "To wish to be forgotten by the beloved is a soul-task
-          harder far than trying not to forget."--_Poem by_ KIMIKO.
-
-
-I
-
-The name is on a paper-lantern at the entrance of a house in the Street
-of the Geisha.
-
-Seen at night the street is one of the queerest in the world. It is
-narrow as a gangway; and the dark shining wood-work of the house-fronts,
-all tightly closed,--each having a tiny sliding door with paper-panes
-that look just like frosted glass,--makes you think of first-class
-passenger-cabins. Really the buildings are several stories high;
-but you do not observe this at once--especially if there be no
-moon--because only the lower stories are illuminated up to their
-awnings, above which all is darkness. The illumination is made by lamps
-behind the narrow paper-paned doors, and by the paper-lanterns hanging
-outside--one at every door. You look down the street between two lines
-of these lanterns--lines converging far-off into one motionless bar of
-yellow light. Some of the lanterns are egg-shaped, some cylindrical;
-others four-sided or six-sided; and Japanese characters are beautifully
-written upon them. The street is very quiet--silent as a display of
-cabinet-work in some great exhibition after closing-time. This is
-because the inmates are mostly away--attending banquets and other
-festivities. Their life is of the night.
-
-The legend upon the first lantern to the left as you go south is
-"Kinoya: uchi O-Kata"; and that means The House of Gold wherein O-Kata
-dwells. The lantern to the right tells of the House of Nishimura, and
-of a girl Miyotsuru--which name signifies The Stork Magnificently
-Existing. Next upon the left comes the House of Kajita;--and in that
-house are Kohana, the Flower-Bud, and Hinako, whose face is pretty as
-the face of a doll. Opposite is the House Nagaye, wherein live Kimika
-and Kimiko.... And this luminous double litany of names is half-a-mile
-long.
-
-The inscription on the lantern of the last-named house reveals the
-relationship between Kimika and Kimiko--and yet something more; for
-Kimiko is styled "Ni-dai-me," an honorary untranslatable title which
-signifies that she is only Kimiko No. 2. Kimika is the teacher and
-mistress: she has educated two geisha, both named, or rather renamed by
-her, Kimiko; and this use of the same name twice is proof positive that
-the first Kimiko--"Ichi-dai-me"--must have been celebrated. The
-professional appellation borne by an unlucky or unsuccessful geisha is
-never given to her successor.
-
-If you should ever have good and sufficient reason to enter the
-house,--pushing open that lantern-slide of a door which sets a
-gong-bell ringing to announce visits,--you might be able to see
-Kimika, provided her little troupe be not engaged for the evening.
-You would find her a very intelligent person, and well worth talking
-to. She can tell, when she pleases, the most remarkable stories--real
-flesh-and-blood stories--true stories of human nature. For the Street
-of the Geisha is full of traditions--tragic, comic, melodramatic;--every
-house has its memories;--and Kimika knows them all. Some are very, very
-terrible; and some would make you laugh; and some would make you think.
-The story of the first Kimiko belongs to the last class. It is not one
-of the most extraordinary; but it is one of the least difficult for
-Western people to understand.
-
-
-II
-
-There is no more Ichi-dai-me Kimiko: she is only a remembrance. Kimika
-was quite young when she called that Kimiko her professional sister.
-
-"An exceedingly wonderful girl," is what Kimika says of Kimiko. To win
-any renown in her profession, a geisha must be pretty or very clever;
-and the famous ones are usually both--having been selected at a very
-early age by their trainers according to the promise of such qualities.
-Even the commoner class of singing-girls must have some charm in their
-best years--if only that _beaute du diable_ which inspired the Japanese
-proverb that even a devil is pretty at eighteen.[2] But Kimiko was much
-more than pretty. She was according to the Japanese ideal of beauty;
-and that standard is not reached by one woman in a hundred thousand.
-Also she was more than clever: she was accomplished. She composed very
-dainty poems--could arrange flowers exquisitely, perform tea-ceremonies
-faultlessly, embroider, make silk mosaic: in short, she was genteel.
-And her first public appearance made a flutter in the fast world of
-Kyoto. It was evident that she could make almost any conquest she
-pleased, and that fortune was before her.
-
-          [2] _Oni mo jiuhachi, azami no hana._ There is a similar
-          saying of a dragon: _ja mo hatachi_ ("even a dragon at
-          twenty").
-
-But it soon became evident, also, that she had been perfectly trained
-for her profession. She had been taught how to conduct herself under
-almost any possible circumstances; for what she could not have known
-Kimika knew everything about: the power of beauty, and the weakness of
-passion; the craft of promises and the worth of indifference; and all
-the folly and evil in the hearts of men. So Kimiko made few mistakes
-and shed few tears. By and by she proved to be, as Kimika
-wished--slightly dangerous. So a lamp is to night-fliers: otherwise
-some of them would put it out. The duty of the lamp is to make pleasant
-things visible: it has no malice. Kimiko had no malice, and was not too
-dangerous. Anxious parents discovered that she did not want to enter
-into respectable families, nor even to lend herself to any serious
-romances. But she was not particularly merciful to that class of youths
-who sign documents with their own blood, and ask a dancing-girl to cut
-off the extreme end of the little finger of her left hand as a pledge
-of eternal affection. She was mischievous enough with them to cure them
-of their folly. Some rich folks who offered her lands and houses on
-condition of owning her, body and soul, found her less merciful. One
-proved generous enough to purchase her freedom unconditionally, at a
-price which made Kimika a rich woman; and Kimiko was grateful--but she
-remained a geisha. She managed her rebuffs with too much tact to excite
-hate, and knew how to heal despairs in most cases. There were
-exceptions, of course. One old man, who thought life not worth living
-unless he could get Kimiko all to himself, invited her to a banquet one
-evening, and asked her to drink wine with him. But Kimika, accustomed
-to read faces, deftly substituted tea (which has precisely the same
-color) for Kimiko's wine, and so instinctively saved the girl's
-precious life--for only ten minutes later the soul of the silly host
-was on its way to the Meido alone, and doubtless greatly
-disappointed.... After that night Kimika watched over Kimiko as a wild
-cat guards her kitten.
-
-The kitten became a fashionable mania, a craze--a delirium--one of the
-great sights and sensations of the period. There is a foreign prince
-who remembers her name: he sent her a gift of diamonds which she never
-wore. Other presents in multitude she received from all who could
-afford the luxury of pleasing her; and to be in her good graces, even
-for a day, was the ambition of the "gilded youth." Nevertheless she
-allowed no one to imagine himself a special favorite, and refused to
-make any contracts for perpetual affection. To any protests on the
-subject she answered that she knew her place. Even respectable women
-spoke not unkindly of her--because her name never figured in any story
-of family unhappiness. She really kept her place. Time seemed to make
-her more charming. Other geisha grew into fame, but no one was even
-classed with her. Some manufacturers secured the sole right to use her
-photograph for a label; and that label made a fortune for the firm.
-
-
-But one day the startling news was abroad that Kimiko had at last shown
-a very soft heart. She had actually said good-bye to Kimika, and had
-gone away with somebody able to give her all the pretty dresses she
-could wish for--somebody eager to give her social position also, and to
-silence gossip about her naughty past--somebody willing to die for her
-ten times over, and already half-dead for love of her. Kimika said that
-a fool had tried to kill himself because of Kimiko, and that Kimiko had
-taken pity on him, and nursed him back to foolishness. Taiko Hideyoshi
-had said that there were only two things in this world which he
-feared--a fool and a dark night. Kimika had always been afraid of a
-fool; and a fool had taken Kimiko away. And she added, with not
-unselfish tears, that Kimiko would never come back to her: it was a
-case of love on both sides for the time of several existences.
-
-Nevertheless, Kimika was only half right. She was very shrewd indeed;
-but she had never been able to see into certain private chambers in the
-soul of Kimiko. If she could have seen, she would have screamed for
-astonishment.
-
-
-III
-
-Between Kimiko and other geisha there was a difference of gentle blood.
-Before she took a professional name, her name was Ai, which, written
-with the proper character, means love. Written with another character
-the same word-sound signifies grief. The story of Ai was a story of
-both grief and love.
-
-She had been nicely brought up. As a child she had been sent to a
-private school kept by an old samurai--where the little girls squatted
-on cushions before little writing-tables twelve inches high, and where
-the teachers taught without salary. In these days when teachers get
-better salaries than civil-service officials, the teaching is not
-nearly so honest or so pleasant as it used to be. A servant always
-accompanied the child to and from the school-house, carrying her books,
-her writing-box, her kneeling cushion, and her little table.
-
-Afterwards she attended an elementary public school. The first "modern"
-textbooks had just been issued--containing Japanese translations of
-English, German, and French stories about honor and duty and heroism,
-excellently chosen, and illustrated with tiny innocent pictures of
-Western people in costumes never of this world. Those dear pathetic
-little textbooks are now curiosities: they have long been superseded by
-pretentious compilations much less lovingly and sensibly edited. Ai
-learned well. Once a year, at examination time, a great official would
-visit the school, and talk to the children as if they were all his own,
-and stroke each silky head as he distributed the prizes. He is now a
-retired statesman, and has doubtless forgotten Ai;--and in the schools
-of today nobody caresses little girls, or gives them prizes.
-
-Then came those reconstructive changes by which families of rank were
-reduced to obscurity and poverty; and Ai had to leave school. Many
-great sorrows followed, till there remained to her only her mother and
-an infant sister. The mother and Ai could do little but weave; and by
-weaving alone they could not earn enough to live. House and lands
-first--then, article by article, all things not necessary to
-existence--heirlooms, trinkets, costly robes, crested lacquer-ware--passed
-cheaply to those whom misery makes rich, and whose wealth is called
-by the people _Namida no kane_--"the Money of Tears." Help from
-the living was scanty--for most of the samurai-families of kin were
-in like distress. But when there was nothing left to sell--not even
-Ai's little school-books--help was sought from the dead.
-
-For it was remembered that the father of Ai's father had been buried
-with his sword, the gift of a daimyo; and that the mountings of the
-weapon were of gold. So the grave was opened, and the grand hilt of
-curious workmanship exchanged for a common one, and the ornaments of
-the lacquered sheath removed. But the good blade was not taken, because
-the warrior might need it. Ai saw his face as he sat erect in the great
-red-clay urn which served in lieu of coffin to the samurai of high rank
-when buried by the ancient rite. His features were still recognizable
-after all those years of sepulture; and he seemed to nod a grim assent
-to what had been done as his sword was given back to him.
-
-At last the mother of Ai became too weak and ill to work at the loom;
-and the gold of the dead had been spent. Ai said: "Mother, I know there
-is but one thing now to do. Let me be sold to the dancing-girls." The
-mother wept, and made no reply. Ai did not weep, but went out alone.
-
-She remembered that in other days, when banquets were given in her
-father's house, and dancers served the wine, a free geisha named Kimika
-had often caressed her. She went straight to the house of Kimika. "I
-want you to buy me," said Ai;--"and I want a great deal of money."
-Kimika laughed, and petted her, and made her eat, and heard her
-story--which was bravely told, without one tear. "My child," said
-Kimika, "I cannot give you a great deal of money; for I have very
-little. But this I can do:--I can promise to support your mother. That
-will be better than to give her much money for you--because your
-mother, my child, has been a great lady, and therefore cannot know how
-to use money cunningly. Ask your honored mother to sign the
-bond--promising that you will stay with me till you are twenty-four
-years old, or until such time as you can pay me back. And what money I
-can now spare, take home with you as a free gift."
-
-Thus Ai became a geisha; and Kimika renamed her Kimiko, and kept the
-pledge to maintain the mother and the child-sister. The mother died
-before Kimiko became famous; the little sister was put to school.
-Afterwards those things already told came to pass.
-
-
-The young man who had wanted to die for love of a dancing-girl was
-worthy of better things. He was an only son; and his parents, wealthy
-and titled people, were willing to make any sacrifice for him--even
-that of accepting a geisha for daughter-in-law. Moreover, they were not
-altogether displeased with Kimiko, because of her sympathy for their
-boy.
-
-Before going away, Kimiko attended the wedding of her young sister,
-Ume, who had just finished school. She was good and pretty. Kimiko had
-made the match, and used her wicked knowledge of men in making it. She
-chose a very plain, honest, old-fashioned merchant--a man who could not
-have been bad, even if he tried. Ume did not question the wisdom of her
-sister's choice, which time proved fortunate.
-
-
-IV
-
-It was in the period of the fourth moon that Kimiko was carried away to
-the home prepared for her--a place in which to forget all the
-unpleasant realities of life--a sort of fairy-palace lost in the
-charmed repose of great shadowy silent high-walled gardens. Therein she
-might have felt as one reborn, by reason of good deeds, into the realm
-of Horai. But the spring passed, and the summer came--and Kimiko
-remained simply Kimiko. Three times she had contrived, for reasons
-unspoken, to put off the wedding-day.
-
-
-In the period of the eighth moon, Kimiko ceased to be playful, and told
-her reasons very gently but very firmly: "It is time that I should say
-what I have long delayed saying. For the sake of the mother who gave me
-life, and for the sake of my little sister, I have lived in hell. All
-that is past; but the scorch of the fire is upon me, and there is no
-power that can take it away. It is not for such as I to enter into an
-honored family--nor to bear you a son--nor to build up your house....
-Suffer me to speak; for in the knowing of wrong I am very, very much
-wiser than you.... Never shall I be your wife to become your shame. I
-am your companion only, your play-fellow, your guest of an hour--and
-this not for any gifts. When I shall be no longer with you--nay!
-certainly that day must come!--you will have clearer sight. I shall
-still be dear to you, but not in the same way as now--which is
-foolishness. You will remember these words out of my heart. Some true
-sweet lady will be chosen for you, to become the mother of your
-children. I shall see them; but the place of a wife I shall never take,
-and the joy of a mother I must never know. I am only your folly, my
-beloved--an illusion, a dream, a shadow flitting across your life.
-Somewhat more in later time I may become, but a wife to you
-never--neither in this existence nor in the next. Ask me again--and I
-go."
-
-
-In the period of the tenth moon, and without any reason imaginable,
-Kimiko disappeared--vanished--utterly ceased to exist.
-
-
-V
-
-Nobody knew when or how or whither she had gone. Even in the
-neighborhood of the home she had left, none had seen her pass. At first
-it seemed that she must soon return. Of all her beautiful and precious
-things--her robes, her ornaments, her presents: a fortune in
-themselves--she had taken nothing. But weeks passed without word or
-sign; and it was feared that something terrible had befallen her.
-Rivers were dragged, and wells were searched. Inquiries were made by
-telegraph and by letter. Trusted servants were sent to look for her.
-Rewards were offered for any news--especially a reward to Kimika, who
-was really attached to the girl, and would have been only too happy to
-find her without any reward at all. But the mystery remained a mystery.
-Application to the authorities would have been useless: the fugitive
-had done no wrong, broken no law; and the vast machinery of the
-imperial police-system was not to be set in motion by the passionate
-whim of a boy. Months grew into years; but neither Kimika, nor the
-little sister in Kyoto, nor any one of the thousands who had known
-and admired the beautiful dancer, ever saw Kimiko again.
-
-But what she had foretold came true;--for time dries all tears and
-quiets all longing; and even in Japan one does not really try to die
-twice for the same despair. The lover of Kimiko became wiser; and there
-was found for him a very sweet person for wife, who gave him a son. And
-other years passed; and there was happiness in the fairy-home where
-Kimiko had once been.
-
-There came to that home one morning, as if seeking alms, a traveling
-nun; and the child, hearing her Buddhist cry of "Ha--i! ha--i!" ran to
-the gate. And presently a house-servant, bringing out the customary
-gift of rice, wondered to see the nun caressing the child, and
-whispering to him. Then the little one cried to the servant, "Let me
-give!"--and the nun pleaded from under the veiling shadow of her great
-straw hat: "Honorably allow the child to give me." So the boy put the
-rice into the mendicant's bowl. Then she thanked him, and asked: "Now
-will you say again for me the little word which I prayed you to tell
-your honored father?" And the child lisped: "_Father, one whom you
-will never see again in this world, says that her heart is glad because
-she has seen your son._"
-
-The nun laughed softly, and caressed him again, and passed away
-swiftly; and the servant wondered more than ever, while the child ran
-to tell his father the words of the mendicant.
-
-But the father's eyes dimmed as he heard the words, and he wept over
-his boy. For he, and only he, knew who had been at the gate--and the
-sacrificial meaning of all that had been hidden.
-
-Now he thinks much, but tells his thought to no one.
-
-He knows that the space between sun and sun is less than the space
-between himself and the woman who loved him.
-
-He knows it were vain to ask in what remote city, in what fantastic
-riddle of narrow nameless streets, in what obscure little temple known
-only to the poorest poor, she waits for the darkness before the Dawn of
-the Immeasurable Light--when the Face of the Teacher will smile upon
-her--when the Voice of the Teacher will say to her, in tones of
-sweetness deeper than ever came from human lover's lips: "_O my
-daughter in the Law, thou hast practiced the perfect way; thou hast
-believed and understood the highest truth;--therefore come I now to
-meet and to welcome thee!_"
-
-
-
-
-THE NUN OF THE TEMPLE OF AMIDA
-
-
-I
-
-When O-Toyo's husband--a distant cousin, adopted into her family for
-love's sake--had been summoned by his lord to the capital, she did not
-feel anxious about the future. She felt sad only. It was the first time
-since their bridal that they had ever been separated. But she had her
-father and mother to keep her company, and, dearer than either,--though
-she would never have confessed it even to herself,--her little son.
-Besides, she always had plenty to do. There were many household duties
-to perform, and there was much clothing to be woven--both silk and
-cotton.
-
-Once daily at a fixed hour, she would set for the absent husband, in
-his favorite room, little repasts faultlessly served on dainty
-lacquered trays--miniature meals such as are offered to the ghosts of
-the ancestors, and to the gods.[3] These repasts were served at the
-east side of the room, and his kneeling-cushion placed before them. The
-reason they were served at the east side was because he had gone east.
-Before removing the food, she always lifted the cover of the little
-soup-bowl to see if there was vapor upon its lacquered inside surface.
-For it is said that if there be vapor on the inside of the lid covering
-food so offered, the absent beloved is well. But if there be none, he
-is dead--because that is a sign that his soul has returned by itself to
-seek nourishment. O-Toyo found the lacquer thickly beaded with vapor
-day by day.
-
-          [3] Such a repast, offered to the spirit of the absent one
-          loved, is called a _Kage-zen_; lit., "Shadow-tray." The
-          word _zen_ is also used to signify the meal served on
-          the lacquered tray--which has feet, like a miniature table.
-          So that the term "Shadow-feast" would be a better translation
-          of _Kage-zen_.
-
-The child was her constant delight. He was three years old, and fond of
-asking questions to which none but the gods knew the real answers. When
-he wanted to play, she laid aside her work to play with him. When he
-wanted to rest, she told him wonderful stories, or gave pretty pious
-answers to his questions about those things which no man can ever
-understand. At evening, when the little lamps had been lighted before
-the holy tablets and the images, she taught his lips to shape the words
-of filial prayer. When he had been laid to sleep, she brought her work
-near him, and watched the still sweetness of his face. Sometimes he
-would smile in his dreams; and she knew that Kwannon the divine was
-playing shadowy play with him, and she would murmur the Buddhist
-invocation to that Maid "who looketh forever down above the sound of
-prayer."
-
-
-Sometimes, in the season of very clear days, she would climb the
-mountain of Dakeyama, carrying her little boy on her back. Such a trip
-delighted him much, not only because of what his mother taught him to
-see, but also of what she taught him to hear. The sloping way was
-through groves and woods, and over grassed slopes, and around queer
-rocks; and there were flowers with stories in their hearts, and trees
-holding tree-spirits. Pigeons cried _korup-korup_; and doves sobbed
-_owao_, _owao_; and cicadae wheezed and fluted and tinkled.
-
-All those who wait for absent dear ones make, if they can, a pilgrimage
-to the peak called Dakeyama. It is visible from any part of the city;
-and from its summit several provinces can be seen. At the very top is a
-stone of almost human height and shape, perpendicularly set up; and
-little pebbles are heaped before it and upon it. And near by there is a
-small Shinto shrine erected to the spirit of a princess of other
-days. For she mourned the absence of one she loved, and used to watch
-from this mountain for his coming until she pined away and was changed
-into a stone. The people therefore built the shrine; and lovers of the
-absent still pray there for the return of those dear to them; and each,
-after so praying, takes home one of the little pebbles heaped there.
-And when the beloved one returns, the pebble must be taken back to the
-pebble-pile upon the mountain-top, and other pebbles with it, for a
-thank-offering and commemoration.
-
-
-Always ere O-Toyo and her son could reach their home after such a day,
-the dusk would fall softly about them; for the way was long, and they
-had to both go and return by boat through the wilderness of rice-fields
-round the town--which is a slow manner of journeying. Sometimes stars
-and fireflies lighted them; sometimes also the moon--and O-Toyo would
-softly sing to her boy the Izumo child-song to the moon:
-
-    Nono-San,
-    Little Lady Moon,
-    How old are you?
-    "Thirteen days--
-    Thirteen and nine."
-    That is still young,
-    And the reason must be
-    For that bright red obi,
-    So nicely tied,[4]
-    And that nice white girdle
-    About your hips.
-    Will you give it to the horse?
-          "Oh, no, no!"
-    Will you give it to the cow?
-          "Oh, no, no!"[5]
-
-          [4] Because an obi or girdle of very bright color can be worn
-          only by children.
-
-          [5]
-
-          Nono-San,
-          _or_
-          _O-Tsuki-San_
-          Ikutsu?
-          "Jiu-san--
-          Kokonotsu."
-          Sore wa mada
-          Wakai yo,
-          Wakai ye mo
-          Dori
-          Akai iro no
-          Obi to,
-          Shiro iro no
-          Obi to
-          Koshi ni shanto
-          Musun de.
-          Uma ni yaru?
-            "Iyaiya!"
-          Ushi ni yaru?
-            "Iyaiya!"
-
-And up to the blue night would rise from all those wet leagues of
-labored field that great soft bubbling chorus which seems the very
-voice of the soil itself--the chant of the frogs. And O-Toyo would
-interpret its syllables to the child: _Me kayui! me kayui!_ "Mine
-eyes tickle; I want to sleep."
-
-All those were happy hours.
-
-
-II
-
-Then twice, within the time of three days, those masters of life and
-death whose ways belong to the eternal mysteries struck at her heart.
-First she was taught that the gentle husband for whom she had so often
-prayed never could return to her--having been returned unto that dust
-out of which all forms are borrowed. And in another little while she
-knew her boy slept so deep a sleep that the Chinese physician could not
-waken him. These things she learned only as shapes are learned in
-lightning flashes. Between and beyond the flashes was that absolute
-darkness which is the pity of the gods.
-
-It passed; and she rose to meet a foe whose name is Memory. Before all
-others she could keep her face, as in other days, sweet and smiling.
-But when alone with this visitant, she found herself less strong. She
-would arrange little toys and spread out little dresses on the matting,
-and look at them, and talk to them in whispers, and smile silently. But
-the smile would ever end in a burst of wild, loud weeping; and she
-would beat her head upon the floor, and ask foolish questions of the
-gods.
-
-
-One day she thought of a weird consolation--that rite the people name
-"Toritsu-banashi"--the evocation of the dead. Could she not call back
-her boy for one brief minute only? It would trouble the little soul;
-but would he not gladly bear a moment's pain for her dear sake? Surely!
-
-
-[To have the dead called back one must go to some priest--Buddhist or
-Shinto--who knows the rite of incantation. And the mortuary tablet,
-or ihai, of the dead must be brought to that priest.
-
-Then ceremonies of purification are performed; candles are lighted and
-incense is kindled before the ihai; and prayers or parts of sutras are
-recited; and offerings of flowers and of rice are made. But, in this
-case, the rice must not be cooked.
-
-And when everything has been made ready, the priest, taking in his left
-hand an instrument shaped like a bow, and striking it rapidly with his
-right, calls upon the name of the dead, and cries out the words,
-"Kitazo yo! kitazo yo! kitazo yo!" meaning, "I have come."[6] And, as
-he cries, the tone of his voice gradually changes until it becomes the
-very voice of the dead person--for the ghost enters into him.
-
-          [6] Whence the Izumo saying about one who too often
-          announces his coming: "Thy talk is like the talk of
-          necromancy!"--_Toritsubanashi no yona._
-
-Then the dead will answer questions quickly asked, but will cry
-continually: "Hasten, hasten! for this my coming back is painful, and I
-have but a little time to stay!" And having answered, the ghost passes;
-and the priest falls senseless upon his face.
-
-Now to call back the dead is not good. For by calling them back their
-condition is made worse. Returning to the underworld, they must take a
-place lower than that which they held before.
-
-To-day these rites are not allowed by law. They once consoled; but the
-law is a good law, and just--since there exist men willing to mock the
-divine which is in human hearts.]
-
-
-So it came to pass that O-Toyo found herself one night in a lonely
-little temple at the verge of the city--kneeling before the ihai of her
-boy, and hearing the rite of incantation. And presently, out of the
-lips of the officiant there came a voice she thought she knew,--a voice
-loved above all others,--but faint and very thin, like a sobbing of
-wind.
-
-And the thin voice cried to her:
-
-"Ask quickly, quickly, mother! Dark is the way and long; and I may not
-linger."
-
-Then tremblingly she questioned:
-
-"Why must I sorrow for my child? What is the justice of the gods?"
-
-And there was answer given:
-
-"O mother, do not mourn me thus! That I died was only that you might
-not die. For the year was a year of sickness and of sorrow--and it was
-given me to know that you were to die; and I obtained by prayer that I
-should take your place.[7]
-
-          [7] _Migawari_, "substitute," is the religious term.
-
-"O mother, never weep for me! It is not kindness to mourn for the dead.
-Over the River of Tears[8] their silent road is; and when mothers weep,
-the flood of that river rises, and the soul cannot pass, but must
-wander to and fro.
-
-          [8] "Namida-no-Kawa."
-
-"Therefore, I pray you, do not grieve, O mother mine! Only give me a
-little water sometimes."
-
-
-III
-
-From that hour she was not seen to weep. She performed, lightly and
-silently, as in former days, the gentle duties of a daughter.
-
-Seasons passed; and her father thought to find another husband for her.
-To the mother, he said:
-
-"If our daughter again have a son, it will be great joy for her, and
-for all of us."
-
-But the wiser mother made answer:
-
-"Unhappy she is not. It is impossible that she marry again. She has
-become as a little child, knowing nothing of trouble or sin."
-
-It was true that she had ceased to know real pain. She had begun to
-show a strange fondness for very small things. At first she had found
-her bed too large--perhaps through the sense of emptiness left by the
-loss of her child; then, day by day, other things seemed to grow too
-large--the dwelling itself, the familiar rooms, the alcove and its
-great flower-vases--even the household utensils. She wished to eat her
-rice with miniature chopsticks out of a very small bowl such as
-children use.
-
-In these things she was lovingly humored; and in other matters she was
-not fantastic. The old people consulted together about her constantly.
-At last the father said:
-
-"For our daughter to live with strangers might be painful. But as we
-are aged, we may soon have to leave her. Perhaps we could provide for
-her by making her a nun. We might build a little temple for her."
-
-Next day the mother asked O-Toyo:
-
-"Would you not like to become a holy nun, and to live in a very, very
-small temple, with a very small altar, and little images of the
-Buddhas? We should be always near you. If you wish this, we shall get a
-priest to teach you the sutras."
-
-O-Toyo wished it, and asked that an extremely small nun's dress be got
-for her. But the mother said:
-
-"Everything except the dress a good nun may have made small. But she
-must wear a large dress--that is the law of Buddha."
-
-So she was persuaded to wear the same dress as other nuns.
-
-
-IV
-
-They built for her a small An-dera, or Nun's-Temple, in an empty court
-where another and larger temple, called Amida-ji, had once stood. The
-An-dera was also called Amida-ji, and was dedicated to Amida-Nyorai
-and to other Buddhas. It was fitted up with a very small altar and with
-miniature altar furniture. There was a tiny copy of the sutras on a
-tiny reading-desk, and tiny screens and bells and kakemono. And she
-dwelt there long after her parents had passed away. People called her
-the Amida-ji no Bikuni--which means The Nun of the Temple of Amida.
-
-A little outside the gate there was a statue of Jizo. This Jizo was a
-special Jizo--the friend of sick children. There were nearly always
-offerings of small rice-cakes to be seen before him. These signified
-that some sick child was being prayed for; and the number of the
-rice-cakes signified the number of the years of the child. Most often
-there were but two or three cakes; rarely there were seven or ten. The
-Amida-ji no Bikuni took care of the statue, and supplied it with
-incense-offerings, and flowers from the temple garden; for there was a
-small garden behind the An-dera.
-
-After making her morning round with her alms-bowl, she would usually
-seat herself before a very small loom, to weave cloth much too narrow
-for serious use. But her webs were bought always by certain shopkeepers
-who knew her story; and they made her presents of very small cups, tiny
-flower-vases, and queer dwarf-trees for her garden.
-
-Her greatest pleasure was the companionship of children; and this she
-never lacked. Japanese child-life is mostly passed in temple courts;
-and many happy childhoods were spent in the court of the Amida-ji. All
-the mothers in that street liked to have their little ones play there,
-but cautioned them never to laugh at the Bikuni-San. "Sometimes her
-ways are strange," they would say; "but that is because she once had a
-little son, who died, and the pain became too great for her mother's
-heart. So you must be very good and respectful to her."
-
-Good they were, but not quite respectful in the reverential sense. They
-knew better than to be that. They called her "Bikuni-San" always, and
-saluted her nicely; but otherwise they treated her like one of
-themselves. They played games with her; and she gave them tea in
-extremely small cups, and made for them heaps of rice-cakes not much
-bigger than peas, and wove upon her loom cloth of cotton and cloth of
-silk for the robes of their dolls. So she became to them as a
-blood-sister.
-
-They played with her daily till they grew too big to play, and left the
-court of the temple of Amida to begin the bitter work of life, and to
-become the fathers and mothers of children whom they sent to play in
-their stead. These learned to love the Bikuni-San like their parents
-had done. And the Bikuni-San lived to play with the children of the
-children of the children of those who remembered when her temple was
-built.
-
-The people took good heed that she should not know want. There was
-always given to her more than she needed for herself. So she was able
-to be nearly as kind to the children as she wished, and to feed
-extravagantly certain small animals. Birds nested in her temple, and
-ate from her hand, and learned not to perch upon the heads of the
-Buddhas.
-
-
-Some days after her funeral, a crowd of children visited my house. A
-little girl of nine years spoke for them all:
-
-"Sir, we are asking for the sake of the Bikuni-San who is dead. A very
-large _haka_[9] has been set up for her. It is a nice haka. But we
-want to give her also a very, very small haka, because in the time she
-was with us she often said that she would like a very little haka. And
-the stone-cutter has promised to cut it for us, and to make it very
-pretty, if we can bring the money. Therefore perhaps you will honorably
-give something."
-
-          [9] Tombstone.
-
-"Assuredly," I said. "But now you will have nowhere to play."
-
-She answered, smiling:
-
-"We shall still play in the court of the temple of Amida. She is buried
-there. She will hear our playing, and be glad."
-
-
-
-
-HARU
-
-
-Haru was brought up, chiefly at home, in that old-fashioned way which
-produced one of the sweetest types of woman the world has ever seen.
-This domestic education cultivated simplicity of heart, natural grace
-of manner, obedience, and love of duty as they were never cultivated
-but in Japan. Its moral product was something too gentle and beautiful
-for any other than the old Japanese society: it was not the most
-judicious preparation for the much harsher life of the new--in which it
-still survives. The refined girl was trained for the condition of being
-theoretically at the mercy of her husband. She was taught never to show
-jealousy, or grief, or anger--even under circumstances compelling all
-three; she was expected to conquer the faults of her lord by pure
-sweetness. In short, she was required to be almost superhuman--to
-realize, at least in outward seeming, the ideal of perfect
-unselfishness. And this she could do with a husband of her own rank,
-delicate in discernment--able to divine her feelings, and never to
-wound them.
-
-Haru came of a much better family than her husband; and she was a
-little too good for him, because he could not really understand her.
-They had been married very young, had been poor at first, and then had
-gradually become well-off, because Haru's husband was a clever man of
-business. Sometimes she thought he had loved her most when they were
-less well-off; and a woman is seldom mistaken about such matters.
-
-She still made all his clothes; and he commended her needle-work. She
-waited upon his wants; aided him to dress and undress; made everything
-comfortable for him in their pretty home, bade him a charming farewell
-as he went to business in the morning, and welcomed him upon his
-return; received his friends exquisitely; managed his household matters
-with wonderful economy; and seldom asked any favors that cost money.
-Indeed she scarcely needed such favors; for he was never ungenerous,
-and liked to see her daintily dressed--looking like some beautiful
-silver moth robed in the folding of its own wings--and to take her to
-theatres and other places of amusement. She accompanied him to
-pleasure-resorts famed for the blossoming of cherry-trees in spring, or
-the shimmering of fireflies on summer nights, or the crimsoning of
-maples in autumn. And sometimes they would pass a day together at
-Maiko, by the sea, where the pines seem to sway like dancing girls; or
-an afternoon at Kiyomidzu, in the old, old summer-house, where
-everything is like a dream of five hundred years ago--and where there
-is a great shadowing of high woods, and a song of water leaping cold
-and clear from caverns, and always the plaint of flutes unseen, blown
-softly in the antique way--a tone-caress of peace and sadness blending,
-just as the gold light glooms into blue over a dying sun.
-
-Except for such small pleasures and excursions, Haru went out seldom.
-Her only living relatives, and also those of her husband, were far away
-in other provinces; and she had few visits to make. She liked to be at
-home, arranging flowers for the alcoves or for the gods, decorating the
-rooms, and feeding the tame gold-fish of the garden-pond, which would
-lift up their heads when they saw her coming.
-
-No child had yet brought new joy or sorrow into her life. She looked,
-in spite of her wife's coiffure, like a very young girl; and she was
-still simple as a child--notwithstanding that business capacity in
-small things which her husband so admired that he often condescended to
-ask her counsel in big things. Perhaps the heart then judged for him
-better than the pretty head; but, whether intuitive or not, her advice
-never proved wrong. She was happy enough with him for five
-years--during which time he showed himself as considerate as any young
-Japanese merchant could well be towards a wife of finer character than
-his own.
-
-Then his manner suddenly became cold--so suddenly that she felt assured
-the reason was not that which a childless wife might have reason to
-fear. Unable to discover the real cause, she tried to persuade herself
-that she had been remiss in her duties; examined her innocent
-conscience to no purpose; and tried very, very hard to please. But he
-remained unmoved. He spoke no unkind words--though she felt behind his
-silence the repressed tendency to utter them. A Japanese of the better
-class is not very apt to be unkind to his wife in words. It is thought
-to be vulgar and brutal. The educated man of normal disposition will
-even answer a wife's reproaches with gentle phrases. Common politeness,
-by the Japanese code, exacts this attitude from every manly man;
-moreover, it is the only safe one. A refined and sensitive woman will
-not long submit to coarse treatment; a spirited one may even kill
-herself because of something said in a moment of passion, and such a
-suicide disgraces the husband for the rest of his life. But there are
-slow cruelties worse than words, and safer--neglect or indifference,
-for example, of a sort to arouse jealousy. A Japanese wife has indeed
-been trained never to show jealousy; but the feeling is older than all
-training--old as love, and likely to live as long. Beneath her
-passionless mask the Japanese wife feels like her Western sister--just
-like that sister who prays and prays, even while delighting some
-evening assembly of beauty and fashion, for the coming of the hour
-which will set her free to relieve her pain alone.
-
-Haru had cause for jealousy; but she was too much of a child to guess
-the cause at once; and her servants too fond of her to suggest it. Her
-husband had been accustomed to pass his evenings in her company, either
-at home or elsewhere. But now, evening after evening, he went out by
-himself. The first time he had given her some business pretexts;
-afterwards he gave none, and did not even tell her when he expected to
-return. Latterly, also, he had been treating her with silent rudeness.
-He had become changed--"as if there was a goblin in his heart"--the
-servants said. As a matter of fact he had been deftly caught in a snare
-set for him. One whisper from a geisha had numbed his will; one smile
-blinded his eyes. She was far less pretty than his wife; but she was
-very skillful in the craft of spinning webs--webs of sensual delusion
-which entangle weak men, and always tighten more and more about them
-until the final hour of mockery and ruin. Haru did not know. She
-suspected no wrong till after her husband's strange conduct had become
-habitual--and even then only because she found that his money was
-passing into unknown hands. He had never told her where he passed his
-evenings. And she was afraid to ask, lest he should think her jealous.
-Instead of exposing her feelings in words, she treated him with such
-sweetness that a more intelligent husband would have divined all. But,
-except in business, he was dull. He continued to pass his evenings
-away; and as his conscience grew feebler, his absences lengthened. Haru
-had been taught that a good wife should always sit up and wait for her
-lord's return at night; and by so doing she suffered from nervousness,
-and from the feverish conditions that follow sleeplessness, and from
-the lonesomeness of her waiting after the servants, kindly dismissed at
-the usual hour, had left her with her thoughts. Once only, returning
-very late, her husband said to her: "I am sorry you should have sat up
-so late for me; do not wait like that again!" Then, fearing he might
-really have been pained on her account, she laughed pleasantly, and
-said: "I was not sleepy, and I am not tired; honorably please not to
-think about me." So he ceased to think about her--glad to take her at
-her word; and not long after that he stayed away for one whole night.
-The next night he did likewise, and a third night. After that third
-night's absence he failed even to return for the morning meal; and Haru
-knew the time had come when her duty as a wife obliged her to speak.
-
-She waited through all the morning hours, fearing for him, fearing for
-herself also; conscious at last of the wrong by which a woman's heart
-can be most deeply wounded. Her faithful servants had told her
-something; the rest she could guess. She was very ill, and did not know
-it. She knew only that she was angry--selfishly angry, because of the
-pain given her--cruel, probing, sickening pain. Midday came as she sat
-thinking how she could say least selfishly what it was now her duty to
-say,--the first words of reproach that would ever have passed her lips.
-Then her heart leaped with a shock that made everything blur and swim
-before her sight in a whirl of dizziness--because there was a sound of
-kuruma-wheels and the voice of a servant calling: "Honorable-return-is!"
-
-She struggled to the entrance to meet him, all her slender body
-a-tremble with fever and pain, and terror of betraying that pain. And
-the man was startled, because instead of greeting him with the
-accustomed smile, she caught the bosom of his silk robe in one
-quivering little hand--and looked into his face with eyes that seemed
-to search for some shred of a soul--and tried to speak, but could utter
-only the single word, "Anata?"[10] Almost in the same moment her weak
-grasp loosened, her eyes closed with a strange smile; and even before
-he could put out his arms to support her, she fell. He sought to lift
-her. But something in the delicate life had snapped. She was dead.
-
-          [10] "Thou?"
-
-There were astonishments, of course, and tears, and useless callings of
-her name, and much running for doctors. But she lay white and still and
-beautiful, all the pain and anger gone out of her face, and smiling as
-on her bridal day.
-
-Two physicians came from the public hospital--Japanese military
-surgeons. They asked straight, hard questions--questions that cut open
-the self of the man down to the core. Then they told him truth cold and
-sharp as edged steel--and left him with his dead.
-
-
-The people wondered he did not become a priest--fair evidence that his
-conscience had been awakened. By day he sits among his bales of Kyoto
-silks and Osaka figured goods--earnest and silent. His clerks think him
-a good master; he never speaks harshly. Often he works far into the
-night; and he has changed his dwelling-place. There are strangers in
-the pretty house where Haru lived; and the owner never visits it.
-Perhaps because he might see there one slender shadow, still arranging
-flowers, or bending with iris-grace above the goldfish in his pond. But
-wherever he rest, sometime in the silent hours he must see the same
-soundless presence near his pillow--sewing, smoothing, softly seeming
-to make beautiful the robes he once put on only to betray. And at other
-times--in the busiest moments of his busy life--the clamor of the great
-shop dies; the ideographs of his ledger dim and vanish; and a plaintive
-little voice, which the gods refuse to silence, utters into the
-solitude of his heart, like a question, the single word--"Anata?"
-
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