Child-life in Japan and Japanese child stories (1901) (14761717071)

Identifier: childlifeinjapan01ayrt (find matches)
Title: Child-life in Japan and Japanese child stories
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Ayrton, Matilda Chaplin, Mrs. 1846-1883 Griffis, William Elliot, 1843-1928, ed
Subjects: Children Fairy tales
Publisher: Boston and New York, D.C. Heath & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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ettiest, the whole bunch of things theytie in the middle of the rope. There is thecrooked-back lobster, like a bowed old man, withall 9,round the camellia branches, whose youngleaves bud before the old leaves fall. There arepretty fern leaves shooting forth in pairs, anddeep down between them the little baby fern-leaf. There is the bitter yellow orange, whosename, you know, means many parents and chil-dren. The name of the black piece of charcoalis a pun on our homestead. But best of all, says Yoshi-san, I like theseaweed hontawara, for it tells me of our braveQueen Jingu Kogo, who, lest the troops shouldbe discouraged, concealed from the army that herhusband the king had died, put on armor, and i8 Child-Life in Japan. led the great campaign against Korea. Hertroops, stationed at the margin of the sea, werein danger of defeat on account of the lack offodder for their horses; when she ordered thishontawara to be plucked from the shore, andthe horses, freshened by their meal of seaweed,
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Presenting the Tide-jewels to Hachiman. rushed victoriously to battle. On the bronzedclasp of our worthy fathers tobacco-pouch Is,our noble father says, the Queen with hersword and the dear little baby prince, Hachi-man, who was born after the campaign, andwho Is now our Warrior God, guiding ourtroops to victory, and that spirit on whose headsquats a dragon has risen partly from the deep,to present an offering to the Queen and thePrince. The campaign against Korea: 200 a.d. First Month. 19 * Then there is another seaweed, whose nameis a pun on rejoicing. There is the lucky bagthat I made, for last year, of a square piece ofpaper into which we put chestnuts and the roeof a herring and dried persimmon fruit. ThenI tied up the paper with red and w^hite paper-string, that the sainted gods might know it wasan offering. Yoshi-san and his little sister had now reachedthe ofreat orate ornamented with hus^ebronze fishes sittino^ on their throatsand twisting aloft their forked tails,that was ne