Word: biwa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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James Haughton Woods '87 lives on in Japan. For, in a Japanese cemetery near Lake Biwa, stands a simple monument into which has been set a casket with a few of the belongings of this Professor of Philosophy (1913-1933) who died in Japan...
...quote the Bulletin's account. "The cemetery where this unique memorial to a Harvard teacher is to be preserved commands a view of the blue waters of Lake Biwa. It is situated in the very heart of Japan, in surroundings which have many associations with the religion, philosophy, and literature of Japan, of which Professor Woods had long been an eager and sympathetic student...
...characters were worldly, Lady Murasaki (Murasaki, no Shikibu) belonged to a junior branch of the Fujiwara family, married a kinsman, joined the court of the Empress Akiko when he died. The Genji Monogatari, in 54 books, was finished in 1004 or a little earlier. Tourists who visit the Lake Biwa Temple of Ishiyama can see what legend calls Lady Murasaki's room and a scrap of the handwriting in which she composed the first Nipponese novel, some 700 years ahead of England's Fielding...