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Unstained and untouched
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Glorious in beauty,
The tall branches of pine-tree tops
Pure and serene:
Or the little twigs of bamboos
Boats that run with spread sails on the Yet in your innocence
Oft you deceive us
sea, Transforming the dew
Floating clouds in the sky On your life-giving leaves
Into sparkling gems!“
And in the fields the flowering susuki.
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By Gonnoske Komai
Oh, how calmly chants
The ancient Bell of our Uyeno
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borne hither
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 The Spider's Thread
By by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
One day, the Buddha was strolling along the brink of
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the lotus pond of Paradise. His eyes fell on a man
named Kandata who was squirming with the other
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sinners in the bottom of hell. This Kandata had done so
many evil things his lifeline but he had to his credit one
good action. Once, while on his way through a deep
forest, he had noticed a little spider creeping along
beside the road. He was about to trample it to death
when he suddenly changed his mind and spared the
spider’s life.
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Now, as he looked down into hell, the Buddha
remembered this good deed and thought he would like
to deliver Kandata out of hell. Looking around he saw a
spider of Paradise spinning a beautiful silvery thread on
the lotus leaves. The Buddha took up the spider’s
thread in his hand and let it straight down to the
bottom of hell which held Kandata securely with the
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other sinners in the Pool of Blood on the floor of hell.
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On this day, Kandata lifted his head by chance and saw a
silver spider’s thread slipping down toward him from the
high heavens. Kandata grasped the thread tightly in his two
hands and began to climb up and up with all his might.
After climbing for a while, he was finally exhausted and
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could not ascend an inch higher. He stopped to rest and
looked below him. What he saw filled him with fear. For,
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below on the thread, countless sinners were climbing
eagerly after him up and up, like a procession of ants.
Kandata blinked his eyes at them with his big mouth hanging
foolishly open in surprise and terror. How could that slender
spider spider’s thread which seemed as if it must break with
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him alone, ever support the weight of all those people? If it
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So Kandata cried out in loud voice. “Hey, you sinners! This
thread is mine. Who gave you permission to come up it? Get
down! Get down!”
At that moment, the spider’s thread broke with a snap t the
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point where Kandata was hanging. Without even time to
utter a cry, Kandata shot down and fell headlong into the
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darkness, spinning swiftly around and around like a top.