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A Japanese miscellany - University of Oregon

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108 <strong>Japanese</strong> Miscellany<br />

remarked that the dragon-fly cares nothing for<br />

flowers, and is apt to light upon stakes or stones<br />

rather than upon blossoms; and they wondered<br />

what pleasure it could find in resting on the rail<br />

<strong>of</strong> a fence or upon the horn <strong>of</strong> a cow. Also they<br />

marvelled at its stupidity when attacked with<br />

sticks or stones, — as <strong>of</strong>ten flying toward the<br />

danger as away from it. But they sympathized<br />

with its struggles in the spider's net, and rejoiced<br />

to see it burst through the meshes. The follow-<br />

ing examples, selected from hundreds <strong>of</strong> compo-<br />

sitions, will serve to suggest the wide range <strong>of</strong><br />

these curious studies: —<br />

Dragon-flies and Sunshine<br />

Tombo ya,<br />

Hi no sasu katae<br />

Tate-yuku<br />

O dragon-fly ! ever towards the sun you rise and soar I<br />

Hiatari no<br />

Dote ya hinemosu<br />

Tombo tobu.<br />

Over the sunlit bank, all day long, the dragon-flies flit to<br />

and fro.<br />

!

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