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Shama’a April 1923

1923

How it must hurt a prayer to find itself Breathed through the lips of a foul Panchama AIL 1-923] THE FLOWER OF GOD '137 1ST BRAHMIN Who is the God he worships all alone Outside the holy temple-gate ? 2Ni) BRAHMIN The God Of filth who dwells in dingy bogs and marshes And wallows in the mire like a grey pig Lost in the worship of the scavengers. [...] When we were leaving the hall this student handed me the entire programme ! Twelve days later I passed from the Japan of the twentieth century transition to the Japan of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries when the Buddhist culture that Japan had evolved from Indian beginnings in the seventh century and had shaped into stories was dramatised and given the form known as the Noh-dance. [...] The dances ' are the Japnese equivalents of the English miracle plays out of which the Elizabethan drama evolved ; but while the miracle plays of England were long and elaborate the miracle plays of Japan are small in substance and reduced to the utmost siplicity and suggestiveness. [...] I was piloted by Professor Togawa to the simple and beautiful Japanese home in Okubo on the outskirts of Tokyo where the writer of sensitive body and brain spent the odorous home hours of the last ten years of his life and out of a sometimes too rigorous solitude and labour gave to the world the precious gift of beautiful literature. [...] I consider it to be by far the most important phase because (i) the scheme was launched with the desire to widen the horizon of the workers ; (ii) its effects in this direction outweigh any contribution the Theatre may make to the advancment of stage technique or the swelling of numbers of the drama's patrons or the increase of output or the better relationship between masters and men ; (iii
humanities general
Pages
73
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120154
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iv Mrinalini Chattopadhyay view
The Avenging Spirit
133-135 Arthur Symons view
The Flower of God
136-147 Harindranath Chattopadhyaya view
Toys
148-149 Stella Kramrisch view
The Lovers
150-150 S. Misra view
Japanese Culture New and Old
151-156 James Cousins view
A Ballad of Holy Rood
157-163 Marsyas view
The Chinese Tripitaka: its Stories
164-170 Phanindranath Bose view
The Leeds Industrial Theatre
171-173 James Gregson view
The Indian in England
174-174 George Leonard view
Some Persian and Pushtu Verse-Forms
175-180 May Hoisington view
Notes and Comments
181-194 Sarah Bernhardt view
Review
195-196 Mrinalini Chattopadhyay view
Backmatter
i-iv Mrinalini Chattopadhyay view

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