Word: samurai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Ranko Koizumi, 23, granddaughter of U.S. Writer Lafcadio Hearn (who married a Japanese samurai's daughter, changed his name to Koizumi and became a Japanese citizen); and Air Force 1st Lieut. Gordon C. Brandes, 27; in the bride's home in Tokyo...
...much later, secular offshoot of Zen drawing. With the swift and eager precision of a swordsman, the artist evoked all autumn in a fierce little bird perched atop a dead branch. Looking into their catalogues, gallerygoers noted without great surprise that Miyamoto Niten was in fact a samurai as famed for his swordsmanship as for his brushwork...
Heap of Lies. In a Grove takes the form of testimony before a police commissioner. The body of a samurai, presumably murdered, has been found in a forest glade. In turn, a bandit, the samurai's wife, lesser witnesses, and the dead samurai himself (through a medium) tell what they know about it. Up to a point, the stories almost fit. The bandit has stalked the samurai and his wife through the forest, decoyed him with a promise of buried loot, trussed him up and raped his wife before his eyes. But when it comes to the samurai...
...kindliest tale, Yam Gruel, Akutagawa turns philosopher. A middle-aged samurai lives only for his annual sip of yam gruel, his favorite delicacy. When he finally gets a chance to gorge himself, the mere idea satiates him. ("Aman sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life...
...proclamation was read in a public ceremony attended by Tokyo's diplomatic corps, including General Mark W. Clark and U.S. Ambassador Robert Murphy. Later, in a private ceremony, Akihito received the Prince Imperial's badge of office, a 3-ft. 4-in., 1,000-year-old Samurai sword. Akihito, whose last public appearance before the proclamation was at the National Horse Show, where he won second prize, received his first formal assignment as Prince Imperial: to represent his family at the coronation in London next June...