![]() ![]() To understand the story itself we must go much fartherīack. Itself." This applies to the legend which has grown upĪround those inseparable names Yoshitsune and Benkei. Genius that can keep popular imagination centred on Said : - " Legend does not adhere to mediocrity, it is only Lloyd, speaking of Kobo-daishi, has somewhere finely The heroes of this story thoroughly deserve it. The former treaty ports, are yet in full sympathy. Manners with which the bulk of the people, away from The fiction of the Imperial apotheosis, and describes Teaching which seeks so energetically the propaganda of The popularity of ancientĭays is thus brought into the present, coloured by present Tellers, theatres, give more space to them than to anything Men, and these old tales are one of the things from which Hard rubs from war, starvation, and both, in the interval.īut the broad outlines still exist in the memory of living Of detail, great advance in luxurious living, and plenty of The lines of the feudal system under which the Japanese That early date would be to the Westerner. Japanese of the twentieth century than his own history of This twelfth century, more over, is much closer to the Spaniard toward Don Quixote and for much the same Nothing like it in the West, apart from the feeling of the What is emphasized here is the living interest. Is another story, which is told later on in these pages. In their own times, and one which regarded them withĮqual respect and admiration. With a far larger circle of acquaintance than they possessed With far less astonishment on the part of this latter-day These ancient heroes of the twelfthĬentury could be received into this twentieth century Japan As far as familiarity and sympathy go theyĪre as close to the Japanese of to-day as to those of seven Yoshitsune and Benkei are peculiarly suchĬharacters. Which appeals to the men of the race as characteristic of Touch, we can be sure that there is found in him something So different as to find his age old fashioned and out of When a character is found going down through theĪges, in sympathy with the men of his own race, in times Its immediate neighbourhood, but through the whole Homely sympathy through a widening circle, not only in Key Hall, and every infant he osculated sent a thrill of Man may be brought into intimate and sympathetic con. Live by imitation because it saves us so much time, a great The common factor - it mayīe an ugly one, and the plebeian have a wide surplus of Possible he ascribes the limitations to luck, or wealth, or (or feel) " such am I - with some limitations." As far as It, and every man can point the finger at them and say But as they transcend it, so they are based on. Totally strange to their time this would have nothing to do TheyĪre great in so far as they represent their age and can lift Great men are peculiarly fitted for such a study. Living specimens come pretty near to the caricature. Is a soupcon of genuine in the exaggeration, and some Sam," and " the seven pairs of breeches " Hollander. This is so much the case that even inĬaricature we have to laugh and admit the truth in theīeefy and obese " John Bull," the lanky and lean "Uncle Specimen our aforesaid glibly talking man bases his idea. The French people from Frenchmen of our acquaintance,Īnd so through the list. Taking different traits from individual men. * the esprit Gaulois," " the genuine Teuton," " the stolidĪnd solid Dutchman," is found to make up his ideal by "the British character," "the representative American," Inquiry to its last limits, and the man who talks glibly of reference is always made to some individual. Of the cart-tail philosophy so prevalent in these latter days Mon enough among the vulgar, and a stock catch- word If we seekĪ psychology of that abstract term " a people," a littleĮxamination will show that in the use of the term - com. Of the Gempei, of the adventures of Minamoto Yoshitsune There is an object in telling these Tales of the Wars Minamoto Kuro Yoshitsune and Sait5 Musashi-bo IYO - NO - KAMI MINAMOTO KURO YOSHITSUNE,īeing the Story of the Lives and Adventures of Iyo-no-Kami -a Full text of " 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" ![]()
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