Word: tetsuzan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opinion has long regarded political assassination as legitimate and most killers of Japanese statesmen as heroes. To prepare the public for what came last week, the Imperial Government nervously sent before a firing squad fortnight ago Lieut. Colonel Saburo Aizawa, the "hero" who killed Director of Military Affairs General Tetsuzan Nagata last summer (TIME, Aug. 26). Before the firing squad blew his brains out, Hero Aizawa cried: "It is proper that a soldier should die to the sound of rifles. Flesh disintegrates but the soul lives on. Seven, even eight lives more will I devote to this imperial land...
After being dismissed from active duty by Lieutenant General Tetsuzan Nagata, one Lieutenant Colonel Saburo Aizawa, smouldering son of a Samurai and an expert fencing master, walked quietly into his superior's office, drew his Samurai blade, whanged Nagata over the head. As the General tried to escape, his junior ran him through from behind, laid the corpse on a table, slashed up its face...
Impassive as wax, His Majesty gave ear. There had been another of those patriotic assassinations. The respected Army swordsmanship instructor, Lieut-Colonel Aizawa, after praying devoutly at the Imperial Family's Meiji Shrine, had called on the chief executive officer of the Japanese Army, Lieut-General Tetsuzan Nagata, Director of Military Affairs, and proceeded to run him expertly through the vitals...
Long scrutiny of ducks has given lean, bristle-lipped Tetsuzan ("Iron Mountain") Hori one great round eye, another squinted to half the normal size. Born in Kyoto 46 years ago, he was dedicated by his parents as an artist almost as soon as he could walk. He was apprenticed to the late great Seiho Takeuchi who made him study the lives and habits of wild fowl for 16 years before he might set brush to silk panel. For several hours a day he was made to squat in the marshes, by the duck ponds, silently meditating (a practice he still...
...Today Tetsuzan Hori is recognized by naturalists as a duck authority. He has lectured on ducks, published monographs on ducks. Main reason for his visit to the U. S. was not to exhibit his paintings but to sit by U. S. duck ponds, meditate on U. S. ducks. He announced last week that the two most interesting birds in the U. S. were the Canada goose and the American wood duck. U. S. critics were deeply impressed with his technical dexterity, his uncanny reproduction of the texture of feathers, but, accustomed to the ideals of modern European paintings, found...