La Farge, John, 1835-1910 · New York, The Century co. · leaf 104
e burnt ashes of the man who crystal-lized the past of his country for more than centuries, andleft Japan as Perry found it. All his precautions, all hiselaborate political conservatism, have been scattered to 82 the winds with the Luck of the Tokugawa, and the hatedforeigner leans in sightseeing… … TOMB OF IVEYASU TOKUGAWA. the surrounding powers of nature. There is here nodefiance of time, no apparent attempt at an equal per-manency; it is like a courteous acceptance of the eternalpeace, the eternal nothingness of the tomb. We leaned against the stone rails and talked of lyeyasu—of his good…
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