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Updated: May 4, 2025
Thus Rise and Set In Constant Change Those Shining Orbs and Regulate the Very Life of this Our World. Kalidasa, India. Hitomaro, Japan. Confucius, China. So Tempered is the Genial Glow That We Know Neither Heat Nor Cold. Tulips and Hyacinths Abound. Fostered by A Delicious Clime the Earth Blooms Like A Garden. Firdausi, Persia. From Untrodden Ways Turn Aside. Phra Ruang, Siam. Zuhayr, Arabia.
On the frontlet of the warrior's helmet, in the old days of arrow and armor, glittered in brass on either side of his crest the same symbol of power and victory. "Japan is not a land where men need pray, For 'tis itself divine: Yet do I lift my voice in prayer..." Hitomaro, + A.D. 737.
As for Narihira, after a few years he was allowed to return from exile, but finding that all his hopes of preferment were vain, he abandoned himself to a life of indolence and debauchery. His name, however, will always stand next to those of Hitomaro and Akahito on the roll of Japanese poets. The fifty-seventh sovereign was Yozei, offspring of the Emperor Seiwa's union with the lady Taka.
Panels from left to right: "They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it," from Confucius, the Chinese philosopher; "The moon sinks yonder in the west while in the east the glorious sun behind the herald dawn appears; thus rise and set in constant change those shining orbs and regulate the very life of this, our world," from "Shakuntala" by Kalidasa, the Indian poet; "Our eyes and hearts uplifted seem to gaze on heaven's radiance," from Hitomaro, the Japanese poet.
Our eyes and hearts uplifted, seem to gaze on heaven's radiance. Hitomaro. Court of the Universe A Niche and Urn by Night The inscriptions on the Arch of the Rising Sun, facing away from the Court, are as follows: The panel at the left of the attic, representing Arabia, reads He that honors not himself lacks honor wheresoe'er he goes. Zuhayr.
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