Rambles Through Japan Without a Guide
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ancient capital of Japan from a. D. 709 to a. D. 784. How little we comprehend dates considered by them- selves alone ! To realize how long since Nara was a capital, one must remember that the first Saxon king of all England did not begin to reign until a. D. 827. Here is a pagoda of wood painted red, five stories high, almost perfectly preserved, yet it dates from the year a;d. 730, and is older than any Gothic cathedral in Europe. Close by, and adjoining a Buddhist temple, is an enormous pine... tree. Long ago its spreading branches were held up by poles, and, as if instinct with reason, the tree concluded to spread rather than increase in height. Its lower branches project in every direction a hundred feet and more from the parent trunk; and at every interval of ten or fifteen feet their weight is supported by stout props. Tradition says that this tree was planted by none other than Ko-bo Dai-shi himself a thousand years ago, as a perpetual offering to the divinity of this temple.
A legend is as natural a growth as a plant or flower ; and Japan is full of them.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
ancient capital of Japan from a. D. 709 to a. D. 784. How little we comprehend dates considered by them- selves alone ! To realize how long since Nara was a capital, one must remember that the first Saxon king of all England did not begin to reign until a. D. 827. Here is a pagoda of wood painted red, five stories high, almost perfectly preserved, yet it dates from the year a;d. 730, and is older than any Gothic cathedral in Europe. Close by, and adjoining a Buddhist temple, is an enormous pine... tree. Long ago its spreading branches were held up by poles, and, as if instinct with reason, the tree concluded to spread rather than increase in height. Its lower branches project in every direction a hundred feet and more from the parent trunk; and at every interval of ten or fifteen feet their weight is supported by stout props. Tradition says that this tree was planted by none other than Ko-bo Dai-shi himself a thousand years ago, as a perpetual offering to the divinity of this temple.
A legend is as natural a growth as a plant or flower ; and Japan is full of them.
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