Certain Noble Plays of Japan - From the manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa by Ezra Pound
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HIME
Surely no one can live in that ruin, and yet a voice sounds from it. A beggar perhaps, let us take a few steps and see. KAGEKIYO My eyes will not show it me, yet the autumn wind is upon us. HIME The wind blows from an unknown past, and spreads our doubts through the world. The wind blows, and I have no rest, nor any place to find quiet. KAGEKIYO Neither in the world of passion, nor in the world of colour, nor in the world of non-colour, is there any such place of rest; beneath the one sky are they all. Whom shall I ask, and how answer? TOMO Shall I ask the old man by the thatch? KAGEKIYO Who are you? TOMO Where does the exile live? KAGEKIYO What exile? TOMO One who is called Akushichi-bioye Kagekiyo, a noble who fought under |
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