Heredity of Taste (Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature) by Natsume Soseki

Author:Natsume,Soseki
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 0804836027
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: 2012-02-07T00:00:00+00:00

Footnotes

19 Situated to the north of Port Arthur. The Japanese army, digging tunnels, besieged the stronghold after the bitter combat of December 31, 1904. The story of the operation features in Soseki's Travels in Manchuria and in Korea (1910; English translation 2000).

20 Stronghold of Ehr Lung-Shan situated in a district north of Port Arthur. It was besieged by the Japanese army on 29 December 1904.

21 Anatoli Mikhailovitch Stessel (1848-1915) was the commander-in-chief of the Russian garrison of Port Arthur. Besieged by the Japanese armies under the command of General Nogi, after waging a defensive war for several months he was forced to surrender. For this he appeared before the Russian war council and was condemned to death. But his sentence was later commuted and he was eventually freed.

22 The peace treaty of Portsmouth was signed on September 5, 1905 under the arbitration of the United States by Komura Jutaro for Japan and Witte for Russia.

23 General Nogi Maresuke (1849-1912), victor of Port Arthur and of the battle of Moukden, figures emblematically as the soul of Japan "Yamato damashii," previously quoted by the author. He ended his own life as well as that of his wife when the emperor Meiji died, so as not to survive him.

24 In December 1906, Sōseki Natsume moved house. He left the Komagome Sendagi-machi district, no. 57, for that of Nishikata-machi, no. 10; both were located in the Hōngo suburb.

25 The kaki is the fruit of the persimmon tree. It has a soft sweet orange pulp and looks like a tomato. It ripens during October and November.

26 Kōbo Daishi (774-835) was a bonze who invented the Hiragana syllabary, and composed iro-ha-ura poetry, made up of the 47 syllables which comprise the Japanese language.

27 Wang Hsi Chich (307-335), a Chinese calligrapher.

28 An ornamental tree from China with fan-shaped leaves, which grows to a height of about thirty meters. It is considered a sacred tree in the Far East.

29 Mitsukoshi chinretsuba. The Mitsukoshi fabric stores set up exhibition galleries where customers would sit and browse through the fabrics to make their choice.

30 Rakushisa, in the Sakyoku suburb of Kyoto, is famous for its association with the poet Matsuo Bashō, who lived there and dedicated a collection of poems to the place.

31 Sumiyoshi or Suminoe is located between the cities of Osaka and Sakai. There is a Shintoist sanctuary there, famous for the legend attributed to it (it was founded by Jingū Kōgō, the mother of the emperor Ojin, in the Kofun era, to thank the sea gods for allowing his military expedition to Korea) as well as for its architecture.

32 A hairstyle of a woman of marriageable age. The tradition originates from the Kabuki theater.

33 A district near Mount Fuji, renowned for its still active volcanic massif, its thermal waters and its springs, which are almost at boiling point. "The Valley of Hell" (Ōjigoku) is near the main crater.

34 Jōgoi. The ranks go from one to eight. You are part of the nobility from the fifth.

35 Hakuyaku-chō no Ōkaji.

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