Identifier: saitomusashibobe01debe (find matches)
Title: Saito Musashi-bo Benkei : tales of the wars of the Gempei, being the story of the lives and adventures of Iyo-no-Kami Minamoto Kuro Yoshitsune and Saito Musashi-bo Benkei the warrior monk
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: De Benneville, James S. (James Seguin)
Subjects: Minamoto, Yoshitsune, 1159-1189 Benkei, d. 1189?
Publisher: Yokohama : J.S. De Benneville
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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obbers heads were hung on a tree on the outskirts of thevillage. Thus Ushiwaka and his party left the neighbour-hood of Akasaka (Red Hill), where the memory of hisdeeds is yet green in the minds of its inhabitants.* * There are one or two points to be considered here. Wind-millswere not a feature of Old Japanese landscapes, nor of New Japan, exceptin toy shops. After all the reference is merely a comparison, and inhis account, also Yamada uses it. Again, the ten sides can be takento refer to points of the magnetic compass, and the six directions are north, south, east, west, nadir, zenith. Both are Buddhist expres-sions. They have no more particular reference to dimensions in space.Of the fourth dimension the Japanese never heard until these daysof Meiji—as to which they were no more unfortunate than their neigh-bours. The opinion of our vulgar herd in the West, as to the witsof the man who tries to prove something more than length, breadthand thickness is more emphatic than polite.
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USHIWAKA KILLS CHOHAN NYUDO. USHIWAKA-MARU AT KURAMA-YAMA. 291 3. Leaving the forest of Koyasu, now sadly depleted of itsenterprising rascals and bad characters, crossing the Suno-matagawa and Kisogawa,* the party at last reachedOwari, Kitsuji now felt very confident of the successfulissue of his journey, in every sense of the word. Ushi-waka was pleased at reaching Atsuta, for the Betto of theAtsuta shrine was Fujiwara Suyenori, father-in-law ofYoshitomo, and third grade in court rank. Now atthis famous, shrine there was dedicated a miya to theworship of Yamato-take, and here also was depositedthe famous Murakumo or sacred sword.f There couldbe no better place, or person, at which and by whomthe ceremony of gembuhu should be performed (assump-tion of the toga virilis), than at the sacred placeand by the father of Atsuta-gozen. Ushiwaka didnot want to appear before Hidehira in the garb of aninfant. After all the feudal lord, in the military sense,was but a retainer of the great Minamo

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