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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1895. ... A PILGRIMAGE TO ENOSHTMA. I. Kamakuba. A long, straggling country village, between low wooded hills, with a canal passing through it. Old Japanese cottages, dingy, neutraltinted, with roofs of thatch, very steeply sloping, above their wooden walls and paper shoji. Green patches on all the roofslopes, some sort of grass; and on the very summits, on the ridges, luxurious growths of yaneshobu,1 the roofplant, bearing pretty purple flowers. In the lukewarm air a mingling of Japanese odors, smells of sake", smells of seaweed soup, smells of daikon, the strong native radish; and dominating all, a sweet, thick, heavy scent of incense, incense from the shrines of gods. Akira has hired two jinrikisha for our pilgrimage; a speckless azure sky arches the world; and the land lies glorified in a joy of sunshine. And yet a sense of melancholy, of desolation unspeakable, weighs upon me as we roll along the bank of the tiny stream, between the mouldering lines of wretched little homes with grass growing on their roofs. For this mouldering hamlet represents all that remains of the millionpeopled streets of Yoritomo's capital, the mighty city of the Shogunate, the ancient seat of feudal power, whither came the envoys of Kublai Khan demanding tribute, to lose their heads for their 1 Yane, "roof;" shobu, "sweetflag " (Acorus calamus). temerity. And only some of the unnumbered temples of the once magnificent city now remain, saved from the conflagrations of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, doubtless because built in high places, or because isolated from the maze of burning streets by vast courts and groves. Here still dwell the ancient gods in the great silence of their decaying temples, without worshipers, without revenues, surrounded by desolations of ricefields, where the chanting of f...
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