| | 121 | Author: | Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | His Interpreter  | | | | Published: | 2004 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The American sat at his desk, intently studying some
plans and sketches that were spread before him. His fine,
fair face was drawn with his intense absorption in his task,
and the heavy lines on his forehead showed he was puzzled
over something regarding it. Often he would turn from his
plans to a large book, and run his hand down a list of
figures, frowning heavily as if[2] their volume annoyed him.
After a time, he pushed the book and maps from him, and
running his hand wearily through his hair, leaned back in
his chair, with half-closed eyes and irresolute mouth and
chin. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 123 | Author: | Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Old Jinrikisha | | | | Published: | 2004 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Now, before I begin
to tell you about the people who have
ridden in me, I would like to say a
few
little things about myself. Of
course, I understand that you would
far rather
hear about people than
me, for
that is natural, to wish first
of
all, to hear of your kind, but please
remember that I have that same
feeling. I
am far more interested in jinrikishas[1]
than I am in people, so you can
understand somewhat of my unselfishness, when
I
propose, after only a few words about
myself, to confine myself almost
entirely
to telling you about those happy or
hapless mortals in whose lives I have
played my part. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 124 | Author: | Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Marriage of Jinyo | | | | Published: | 2004 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Ishida Jinyo returned to Japan at the command of his
father and the solicitation of his mother. Six years'
residence in the most modern city in the world had convinced
the young man that it would be fatal and impossible for him
to submit to rules and duties which, to his now enlightened
mind, appeared medieval. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 126 | Author: | Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Life of a Japanese Girl | | | | Published: | 2004 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The first lesson instilled into the mind of a Japanese
girl is to be modest and gentle, and she is reared along
lines which tend to make her respect her elders.[1] From the
days when she is wrapped in long clothes to the time when
she is given to her bridegroom she is under the strict
though gentle care of her parents. Though constantly
disciplined, it is in so mild and gentle and unseen yet firm
a way that maidenhood becomes a pleasure and wifehood a joy.
Out of all this there grows the love of and devotion to her
parents that is beautiful. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 128 | Author: | Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954 | Requires 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 130 | Author: | Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954 | Requires 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 131 | Author: | Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954 | Requires 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 132 | Author: | Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954 | Requires 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 133 | Author: | Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954 | Requires 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 135 | Author: | Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954 | Requires 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.'" | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 136 | Author: | Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954 | Requires 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 137 | Author: | Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954 | Requires 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 138 | Author: | Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954 | Requires 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 140 | Author: | Watanna, Onoto, 1879-1954 | Requires 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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