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196 HONDA THE SAMUEAI. mean defeat, he climbed the cliff and, invoking the sea-god Kompira, flung his sword into the sea. The next morning the tide receded and left a dry space on the sands, and Nitta and his army marched for- ward, and after prodigies of valor captured the city and burned it. The most splendid architecture and treasures of art disappeared in smoke and ashes and the glory of the Hojo was a dream of the past. Rice-fields now cover what were once wide streets thickly built up and the village is only a shadowy fragment of former glory. The great bronze image of Buddha fifty feet high, unmoved by fire, lightning, typhoon, or tidal wave or war, still rises serenely over the landscape. Where spear and arrow makers lived, and sword-forgers and armorers dwelt by hundreds, are. now only peaceable farmers. The hawk and crow flew over the ruins of gateways whence had issued lords and ladies, the processional splendors of feudalism, the smart hawking parties with relays of falcons, or the great train of hunters which Yoritomo led to the side of Mount Fuji to afford to his warriors in peace the discipline and excitement of war. The two travelers on the way to Kamakura had also spent some hours at the lovely island of Eno- shima, entering the cavern of Benten, feeing the fisher-boys who dived for coins and haliotis shells, and enjoying the superb scenery. At the inn of Kamakura, Ban read from a book which he found in the house a book, by the way, which had on it the stamp in red ink of the famous old library which 4

THE LIFE OF A BONIN. 197 once, centuries ago in the times of the Ashikaga tycoons, existed in the place the story of Benten, and "The Birth out of the Sea of the Beautiful Island."

THE LIFE OF A BONIN. 197<br />

once, centuries ago in the times of the Ashikaga<br />

tycoons, existed in the place the story of Benten,<br />

and "The Birth out of the Sea of the Beautiful<br />

Island."

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