| | 162 | Author: | Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Tokiwa: A Tale of Old Japan  | | | | Published: | 2004 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | For fourteen consecutive days she had remained before the
shrine, eating no food, drinking little water, sleeping not.
Mechanically she went through the monotonous motions,
bending her body back and forth, until it seemed like some
mechanical puppet, working clock-like back and forth, her
parched, weary lips uttering only the feeble common prayer
of the devout Buddhist: Namu, Amida Butsu!” (“Save us,
Eternal Buddha!”) | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 164 | Author: | Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Yoshida Yone, Lover | | | | Published: | 2004 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | It was five years since Yoshida Yone had come to New York.
He was essentially a son of New Japan, eager, ambitious,
intensely curious and interested in all pertaining to
learning and advancement. Everything in the Western world at
first enthused and delighted him. He began at once to master
the English language thoroughly, then to study the people.
He adopted their dress, copied their mannerisms and habits,
and even endured the misery of initiating himself into the
mysteries of what his suite termed “barbarous food.” At the
end of three years he was a typical Americanized Japanese. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 165 | Author: | Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Where the Young Look Forward to Old Age | | | | Published: | 2004 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Perhaps one of the sweetest characteristics of the
Japanese is their innate love, obedience, and respect for
their parents. The Japanese character in this respect has
not its parallel the world over. To a Japanese the word
“duty” might be said to be the most significant word in the
language. But the Japanese interpretation of the word has a
far different meaning to the generally accepted one. Duty,
to a Japanese, means not merely obedience and discipline,
but strong, sweet, cultivated, parental devotion. I use the
word “cultivated” because this feeling has been and is
cultivated in Japan. Nevertheless it does not lose its
naturalness. On the contrary, this devotion of the young for
the old—the adoration of the parent by the child—becomes a
natural cultivation. It is exemplified not only in the
larger and formal acts of Japanese life, but in the minutest
and smallest detail. The little Japanese child obeys without
question, and generally in a lovable, willing manner, the
gentle “demand” of its parents, and even in cases where the
parents are harsh the natural love of authority is still
there and the child is obedient. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 169 | Author: | Homer | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Iliad of Homer | | | | Published: | 2004 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Sing, goddess, the wrath of Achilles Peleus' son, the ruinous wrath that
brought on the Achaians woes innumerable, and hurled down into Hades
many strong souls of heroes, and gave their bodies to be a prey to dogs
and all winged fowls; and so the counsel of Zeus wrought out its
accomplishment from the day when first strife parted Atreides king of
men and noble Achilles. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 175 | Author: | Parins, James W. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Genius of Sequoyah | | | | Published: | 2004 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Sequoyah, the much-honored creator of the Cherokee syllabary, the means by which
anyone speaking the Cherokee language could become literate, was an unlettered
man himself until he finished his system. Nonetheless, the Cherokee historian
Dr. Emmett Starr reported, written language held a particular fascination for
him. Seeing the written page used by white people, Sequoyah at first thought
that each letter stood for a word. Upon closer examination, however, he
concluded that this could not be true, and that a better explanation was that
each letter represented a sound. This idea, which came to him around 1809, was
the seed from which the Cherokee syllabary grew. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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