DOI Heft:
No. 232 (July 1912)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21157#0187
Studio-Talk
“plum-tree: the home of uguisu” “the secret melody
BY FUKUI TOKIKO BY SUGAI SHUNZAN
“FUJIWARA YASUMASA
BY OTAKI GESSO
among the first to serve his country. Soon after-
wards orders were sent throughout the land sum-
moning all the samurai to Kamakura. Among
those assembled was a warrior in a humble suit of
armour on a shabby horse. He was summoned
before the great general, Hojo Tokiyori, who
thanked him personally for the hospitality he had
shown him when shut in by the snow and rewarded
him liberally for his loyalty.
Among the beautiful subjects which will never
get too old to exert an educational influence, one is
a charming incident in the early life of Mencius,
the great Chinese teacher. When a boy he took a
dislike to learning, and refused to continue at school.
Thereupon his mother, who was weaving at the time,
cut the half-woven cloth from the loom with a large
knife, impressing on the boy that his discontinuance
of learning would amount to the same thing, render-
ing him useless for any of the great possibilities of
life. Another charming subject illustrates the story
that the Emperor Murakami about the middle of
the tenth century of the Christian era was anxious
to replace a plum-tree which had died in his garden,
with a suitable one. It so happened that a plum-
tree in the garden of one Ki-no Tsurayuki met
with the approval of the emperor. When the tree
was transplanted Tsurayuki’s daughter composed
an ode:
Choku nareba
ltomo kashi koshi
Uguisu no
Yadowa to towaba
Ikaga kotaen,
which, roughly rendered into English, reads : “ Since
it is the Mikado’s command, I obey it with utmost
joy, but what shall I answer when the bush-warbler
returns and asks for his old home ? ” The emperor
was so touched when he read the tanzaku (a slip
of paper to write an ode on) attached to the plum-
tree that he immediately gave orders that the tree
should be restored to the original garden.
Still another favourite subject with the artists in
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“plum-tree: the home of uguisu” “the secret melody
BY FUKUI TOKIKO BY SUGAI SHUNZAN
“FUJIWARA YASUMASA
BY OTAKI GESSO
among the first to serve his country. Soon after-
wards orders were sent throughout the land sum-
moning all the samurai to Kamakura. Among
those assembled was a warrior in a humble suit of
armour on a shabby horse. He was summoned
before the great general, Hojo Tokiyori, who
thanked him personally for the hospitality he had
shown him when shut in by the snow and rewarded
him liberally for his loyalty.
Among the beautiful subjects which will never
get too old to exert an educational influence, one is
a charming incident in the early life of Mencius,
the great Chinese teacher. When a boy he took a
dislike to learning, and refused to continue at school.
Thereupon his mother, who was weaving at the time,
cut the half-woven cloth from the loom with a large
knife, impressing on the boy that his discontinuance
of learning would amount to the same thing, render-
ing him useless for any of the great possibilities of
life. Another charming subject illustrates the story
that the Emperor Murakami about the middle of
the tenth century of the Christian era was anxious
to replace a plum-tree which had died in his garden,
with a suitable one. It so happened that a plum-
tree in the garden of one Ki-no Tsurayuki met
with the approval of the emperor. When the tree
was transplanted Tsurayuki’s daughter composed
an ode:
Choku nareba
ltomo kashi koshi
Uguisu no
Yadowa to towaba
Ikaga kotaen,
which, roughly rendered into English, reads : “ Since
it is the Mikado’s command, I obey it with utmost
joy, but what shall I answer when the bush-warbler
returns and asks for his old home ? ” The emperor
was so touched when he read the tanzaku (a slip
of paper to write an ode on) attached to the plum-
tree that he immediately gave orders that the tree
should be restored to the original garden.
Still another favourite subject with the artists in
i65