Word: tadashi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, Japan plunged into the sanctions debate. During a one-hour meeting in Tokyo between South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha and his Japanese counterpart, Tadashi Kuranari, Botha was told that Japan, one of South Africa's main trading partners, may apply punitive new sanctions unless Pretoria moves quickly to end apartheid...
...listening, there started up in the near pines an unearthly sound. Out it went, then from farther away returned a call and, from farther yet, still another, until the slopes rang with cries. I asked what bird it was that made that noise. "Can it be a real bird?" Tadashi said. "Wild monkeys also live in these mountains." The last thing he said was, "Who sleeps with such a bird going...
...route back to the farm, Tadashi and I came to a crossroads Dosojin carved with compass directions...
Instead of the road, Tadashi and I followed the short cut under the big pines into the valley orchards and vineyards. The rocky soil was fertile once it got water, so, although too far above the river here for paddyfields, it produced fruit, melons and chestnuts through a computer-controlled sprinkler system. Down the dusty road until we reached a farmhouse. Tadashi knew the son and his bride...
Most potently of all Japanese symbols, these wayside stones reveal how life is a journey wherein the traveler sees that it is the earth itself on which paths cross and from which journeys proceed toward union with otherness. "Dosojin shows us the way," Tadashi said...