Saito Musashi-bo Benkei : tales of the wars of the Gempei, being the story of the lives and adventures of Iyo-no-Kami Minamoto Kuro Yoshitsune and Saito Musashi-bo Benkei the warrior monk . ndnot even Jinsaku had known the name of her lover. Themonks alone could have told a tale, many a one. Mean-while she watched her boy grow in years and strength ;proud of this strength, grieved over his looks, for stalwart,good-featured lad as he was, small-pox at six years of agehad laid its disfiguring hand on his face. So now whenthe question came from him who had the right to ask it,once again she bowed
Saito Musashi-bo Benkei : tales of the wars of the Gempei, being the story of the lives and adventures of Iyo-no-Kami Minamoto Kuro Yoshitsune and Saito Musashi-bo Benkei the warrior monk . ndnot even Jinsaku had known the name of her lover. Themonks alone could have told a tale, many a one. Mean-while she watched her boy grow in years and strength ;proud of this strength, grieved over his looks, for stalwart,good-featured lad as he was, small-pox at six years of agehad laid its disfiguring hand on his face. So now whenthe question came from him who had the right to ask it,once again she bowed her face and answered : — theNi-6 at the shrine of Shinbutsus plan was matured almost as soon as he had * The identification of Bensho with Tanso is here accepted. It iswidely current among writers. t In the weaving of these tales, drawn from various sources, and the>eoften conflicting, I confess to have arrived at an impasse. Fatherhoodcan be an object of genial scepticism, but none can have more than onemother. In a note (A) I give the alternate story of Benkeis parent-age, and my reasons for adopting the one now given. Other specula-tions are also noted (B).. THE NI - O OF KAMI - NO - KURA. THE STOKY OF ohaYA. 185 his mothers answer. For a moment or so he sat withsternly knitted brows. Then he arose stretching out hismassive limbs. OHaya, with some misgivings as to herannouncement, asked him where he was going. Sinceother sons find their support in their fathers, I shall seekmine. It was on OHayas tongue to cry out that aNi-6 after all was nothing but a plaster image ; to look towork, and not to do anything to cause the villagers toridicule him. Shinbutsu, however, had one plan wellconceived in his mind. To do as others do, to live andplay without work, and he sought his goal in the mostdirect manner. The stalwart boy, moving swiftly by dayup the shaded avenue, was a very different sight from theshrinking girl passing in the darkness of the night moreth
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