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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...
...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...
...letter from Tokyo related that the Iseniyama Temple on Lake Biwa, near Kyoto, sent His Imperial Majesty Emperor Yoshihito (122nd ruler of Japan, who was forced into retirement in 1921 owing to a mental affliction) no less than 10,000 fireflies...