Deeds of Utmost Kindness

Roasted Gingko

Roasted Gingko This page intentionally left blank Shibuya The view from here of Empress Shoken's garden reveals the fuschia's adolescent comeliness. Tied to that mulberry tree, the angriest dog in the world strains all day against the chain. The Empress was famous for flaunting the imperfection of her curved nose by highlighting it with make-up and by always seeming to address others to their noses. As for your questions, while they symbolizedeloquence, wealth, musicand learning, the new stirps of dog she raised proved too large and viciousfor the typicalJapanese home, this one is the last of its kind. At Koyasan, the Empress commissioned a lifelike sculpture and ordered a new bib tied to its throat every day. This gave rise to gossip, not true incidentally, that her dogs were thanatophagous. Empress Shoken was knownto be a gracious hostess and to visiting dignitaries she often made gifts of paintings which, like a form of divination, she created by dipping live pond snails into brilliant colors, letting them crawl away from the center of the canvas.The remaining ROASTED G I N G K O 7 collection is of national regard. Watch your head please. Visitors come each June to view the extensive tulip gardens and the lily pond on these grounds. There are somany, it is common for every tenth group member to carry a flag bearing a particular tulip color so that no one is lost when tours intersect. In her thirties, when the Empress became obsessed with aging, she began scrupulously to maintain a visceral calendar. For instance, here is a date and the notation "Twinge, 2:15 a.m." You will learn more about her writingwhen you visit the Willow Room where I hope you will notice a dragonfly on the ceiling, work of reputed artist Tohaku Hasegawa. At the pond behold ghostfish luminous as yellow plums. And thick-bodied diamond-scaled carp which wag upward to stare at tourists and open their mouths, as if incredulous, so the surface stertorously rushes in. They have whiskers long and fleshy as noodles and often they swarm the shallows composing loud sucking arias. Youcan distinguish Japanese from Kyoto who will all be staring enchanted at the small turtle. Please have a good time if we don't see you. DEEDS OF UTMOST K I N D N E S S 8 Ryonji An aesthetic of perimeters emerges: the shoji screen slides open and disappears, migratingcranes. The rocks perform their heuristics in freshly tamed gravel; borrowed scenerylooking on, and over the oiled earthen wall. Her conversation drifts laterally. If I entered here, my heels would not break off their monologue with the stage. So would present love be displaced by longing. ROASTED GINGKO 9 Silk The worms are kept far from the house, their chewing is so intense. Like a June rainstorm. Through which, across the Kamo River, concatenate empty passenger train cars smooth themselves across the night landscape carrying green light. On this same thin paper I wrote you a letter in your own hand. Odd, conveying someone's image so far from its source, to let it loose in places you have never seen. Putting it mildly. Inside her sleeves. Instead of a bra, she wears small wafers over each nipple to keep them from arousing through the sheer kimono. Across the earth, you are sleeping. 10 DEEDS OF UTMOST KINDNESS Six Changes In The Imagination He is not programmed to women, she told me, he is programmed to pornography. Did the minor gods consider themselves so. Most business men do not like the sculpture, but have come to identify with the space around it. Highest readership per thousand: Highest advertising in millions: 1. Japan 569 i. U.S.61.320 2. Iceland 557 2. Japan 11.120 3. Sweden 526 3. England 5.925 4. E.Germany 517 4. W. Germany 5.536 5. Finland 480 5. France 4.484 Danmari— in Kabuki,a wordless slow motion pantomime which takes place in total darkness through which the protagonists glissade from one scenicpose to another trying to gain possession of an object or letter. To the audience, their movements are invisible. ROASTED GINGKO 11 Onnagata, the art of female impersonation The masks embody a denial of all specific human qualities...