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Identifier: buddhascrystalot00ozak (find matches)
Title: Buddha's crystal and other fairy stories
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Ozaki, Yei Theodora Iwaya, Sazanami, 1870-1933
Subjects: Tales -- Japan
Publisher: Tokyo : Kelly & Walsh
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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d to do for my son. * Brave woman, said the great man, and his eyes grewdeep and dark with emotion, fear not. Your son shall be asmy son and shall enter my service as a sanmrai. On Bud-dhas Crystal, which you have restored to me, I swear this. And as he spoke he raised the crystal with both hands tohis forehead in an act of reverence. But the streneth of thewoman had gone. She was unable to speak her thanks. Afleeting smile ofcontentment passed over her face, and showedthat she understood and was grateful and satisfied. Shesank back to the sand and the rocks with a groan and died. Kamatari Ko, the great state minister of Japan, stoodlooking down at the poor shell-gatherers corpse. Hewas much moved, and it was some minutes betore he spoke.Then he said to his attendants: This day have we seen a worthy example of self-sacrifice and of faithfulness to purpose. The woman thatlies dead before us gave her life for the sake of her child.We cannot tell what happened to her down in the sea, but
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BUDDHAS CRYSTAL 27 it is evident that rather than run the risk of losing thecrystal, she cut herself regardless (jf the pain and buriedthe jewel in the wound, thus vohintirily made. All thisshe did so that she might win a hopeful future for her son.We may all learn much to-day. This woman had the truespirit of the samurai, and her son shall surely be one. He then ordered the body to be taken up reverently,and he gave money for it to be buried in one of the greattemples on the hills overlooking the sea. Kaniatari now returned to Nara carrying with joy theBuddha-retlecting Crystal, which, with the other twotreasures, he and the Chinese Admiral took to the Templeof Kofukuji and delivered to the high priest there m hisdaughters name. The Admiral Banko then returned toChina to tell Kohaku that he had fulfilled his mission andto relate all that had befallen the Sacred Crystal. And Kamatari took the motherless infant to his homeand reared it as his own child. In due time, when the boygrew to

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