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 . and favourite plum tree, the words of which yetfluttered in the breeze on the white scroll attached but aday or so before to its gnarled branch. It was astrange attraction the romancer tells us, that made Ushi-waka loiter and listen to the flute-like voice of the strange it would seem to anyone who knows Tales of the loves of Yoshitsune and Joruri-hime. The name in thissense is secondary. Pig
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 . and favourite plum tree, the words of which yetfluttered in the breeze on the white scroll attached but aday or so before to its gnarled branch. It was astrange attraction the romancer tells us, that made Ushi-waka loiter and listen to the flute-like voice of the strange it would seem to anyone who knows Tales of the loves of Yoshitsune and Joruri-hime. The name in thissense is secondary. Piggott—Music and Musical instruments ofJapan calls Joruri-hime— Maid of Paradise. Cf pp. 22, 38. Seealso in Notes to this Chapter. * The samisen is a popular and vulgar instrument. According toPiggott (loc-cit 38) it was introduced from the Loo-choo Islands about1560 Chamberlain (Things Japanese— music p. 337) saysthat it was brought from Manila, above 1700 As to the factsconcerning J5ruri-hime I turn mainly to the Yoshitsune-Chijun-kiand the Dai-Nihon Jimmei Jiten. Her story is very ancient. TheTsukushi harp (0j| ^ ^) is often mentioned. Piggott says nothingabout THE LOVE OF JORUBI-HUME. USHIWAKA-MARU AT KURAMA-YAMA. 295 youth, its own heart calling to the opposite sex, andfuriously thumping at the same time. By an impulsehe drew his own instrument out of his bosom, and withhis flute Usuzumi answered the singer, in strains sosweet and subduing that a fish would rise to the surface ofthe water, and a bird flit to ground to enjoy this ready reply secured—silence. Ushiwaka,a little surprised and disgruntled moved slowly away. Heinquired carelessly of the maid as to who lived in that partof the house, to look so carefully after the garden and toplay so exquisitely on the koto. It must have been theOjosan, Joruri-hime. None other here has such skill inmusic or womans art as she, and the little maid Reizei,glad and proud of such a congenial subjec
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