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121Author:  Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954Requires cookie*
 Title:  Japanese War News by Word o`Mouth  
 Published:  2004 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: In Japan, story-telling is an old and popular calling. The professional story-tellers have their particular halls where at the present moment hundreds congregate to listen to war news. True, the Japanese story-teller does not attract the more refined or highly educated people, but so popular is he with the masses (who can seldom afford to attend the theatre), that he may be classed among the most interesting of those who live to please and instruct.
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122Author:  Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954Requires cookie*
 Title:  Ojio-San  
 Published:  2004 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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123Author:  Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Marriage of Okiku-San  
 Published:  2004 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Miss Kiku Taguchi was not an ordinary young lady. Her father, a pompous, important individual, entertained a distinct contempt for her insignificant sex. His wife was a mere nonentity, a puppet, who vaguely repeated, parrot-like, the paradoxes voiced by her lord. Hence, when this same lord emphatically expressed his opinion concerning the proper education for a female—this within twelve hours after the birth of Okiku-san, Lady Taguchi assented, and promised things. The result was a girl of naturally independent and original disposition, trammeled by the contracted rules common for women in Japan half a century before.
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124Author:  Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954Requires cookie*
 Title:  An Oriental Holiday  
 Published:  2004 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: What Christmas is to the Westerners, New Year's is to the Japanese, although congratulations and greetings are not merely confined to the first day of the New Year, but at any time between the first and fifteenth. This is the time of universal peace and good will in Japan; when the inhabitants of the little Empire prepare to start life anew, with all bad feelings done away with and fine promises and resolutions for the future. In fact, the first of January bears the significant title of Gan-san (the Three Beginnings), meaning the beginning of the year, the beginning of the month and the beginning of the day. One might be tempted to add to this "The beginning of a new life," for so realistically and conscientiously do the Japanese try to observe the almost national rule of striving earnestly to make themselves better at this time that it becomes an almost literal belief with them that they have succeeded. That is a pretty truth, I think—that a good belief generally tends to make the good reality.
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125Author:  Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954Requires cookie*
 Title:  Miss Perfume  
 Published:  2004 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Mr. Albemarle Haug struck an attitude, his feet wide apart, his monocle fixed in his left eye. He twirled his small, incipient mustache with one hand and his cane with the other. He cleared his throat with a prolonged “Ahem!,” looked knowing, and then said, “Ohayo!” with an unmistakable accent.
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126Author:  Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Pot of Paint  
 Published:  2004 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: To a Portuguese great-grandfather the face of Moonshine owed its peculiar beauty. Moonshine had heard of this ancestor; a blot he was to her upon the proud Japanese genealogy of her family, despite the fact that he had been one of those remarkable Portuguese who brought to Japan the first knowledge of Western science. When her Japanese friends remarked that her eyes were yellow instead of black and her hair waved barbarously, she would apologize very humbly. But to the few foreigners whom she chanced to meet in Nagasaki, Moonshine traded on her nationality in order to win their favor.
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127Author:  Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954Requires cookie*
 Title:  Prince Sagaritsu`s Patriotism  
 Published:  2004 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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128Author:  Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954Requires cookie*
 Title:  A Rhapsody on Japan  
 Published:  2004 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: "Japan is not a land where men need pray, for 'tis itself divine," sang the poet Hitomara more than a thousand years ago, and another clever Japanese writer said: "Holding the brush of infinite genius the Creator began to work upon his canvas—the universe. A touch of his finger produced land and sea, beautiful and sublime. When his hand moved on, there in the farthest east of the world a land was raised out of water. I know not why, but the painter favored this land with a special color. 'Japan' they call it—surnamed 'The Land of Sunrise.'"
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129Author:  Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Wife of Shimadzu  
 Published:  2004 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: The Japanese consul smiled at the dyspeptic pathos manifest in the countenance of the little figure that had presented itself within his inner office. On the appealing features there were traced unmistakable lines of peculiar pain. Occasionally their momentary rigidity was disturbed by acute spasms.
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130Author:  Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954Requires cookie*
 Title:  Shizu`s New Year`s Present  
 Published:  2004 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: It was New Year's Eve. A gentle snow was falling everywhere and it was quite cold outdoors. Nevertheless, the people were laughing and chatting happily everywhere, and the fading sunset lingered lovingly about their happy, smiling faces. The treasure vendor came proudly along on his cart, calling his wares aloud, and stopping every once in a while to make a sale. A gay party of geisha girls, with arms linked happily about each other, passed down the main street, chatting and whispering and laughing together.
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131Author:  Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Story of Ido  
 Published:  2004 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Ido worked in the neighboring silk mill. He was tall and lithe and strong, and the sun reflected in his hair and eyes. Every one in the little town knew his history, but no one knew Ido himself; for, although he worked among them and in their midst, yet he had always held himself aloof. When Ido had been a little boy at school, he had been very unhappy, because his school-mates had laughed and jeered at his strangely-tinted hair and blue eyes. With an American or English boy they would have understood, and perhaps never even noticed it particularly; but with a Japanese——? And when Ido was only fifteen years old his mother had died, and he was left utterly alone in the world. In the daytime he worked at the mill; at night he studied the English language. Far away across the waters lived his father's people.
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132Author:  Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954Requires cookie*
 Title:  Honorable Movie Takee Sojin  
 Published:  2004 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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133Author:  Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954Requires cookie*
 Title:  Miss Spring Morning  
 Published:  2004 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: It was a humid, sultry day in the Season of Little Plenty. In the house of Captain Taganouchi, complete comfort was found on the upper floor of the house, an immense chamber, from which, by order of the master, all the walls had been removed, making of it an open pavilion.
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134Author:  Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954Requires cookie*
 Title:  Starving and Writing in New York  
 Published:  2004 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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135Author:  Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954Requires 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!”)
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136Author:  Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954Requires cookie*
 Title:  An Unexpected Grandchild  
 Published:  2004 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: All afternoon she had pored over the story. Now, as she closed the book, her face still held its absorbed expression of pain. Her cheek-bones were flushed, her eyes snapped feverishly. She looked as if she wanted to express her thoughts violently to somebody.
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137Author:  Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954Requires 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.
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138Author:  Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954Requires 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.
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139Author:  Gregory, James RoaneRequires cookie*
 Title:  Additional Texts - Yuchi  
 Published:  2004 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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140Author:  Gregory, James RoaneRequires cookie*
 Title:  James Roane Gregory - Part I  
 Published:  2004 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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