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Updated: May 23, 2025
That among the Babylonians the seventh month also had a sacred character may be concluded from the meaning of the ideographs with which the name is written. The question may, therefore, be raised whether at an earlier period and in some religious center Nippur, Sippar, or perhaps Ur the seventh month may not have been celebrated as the Zagmuku.
He went to one of the square doorways and very carefully removed the dust from a small plate on the lintel. He need not have been so careful; engraved in the solid metal was a single character, plainly in the same language as the other ideographs. The architect smiled triumphantly into the inquiring eyes of his friends. "I won't have to eat my hat," said he.
It was written, for the most part, with a script called the Manyo syllabary; that is to say, with Chinese ideographs employed phonetically, and it did not at all attain the literary standard of its Chinese prototype. The Nihon Shoki consisted originally of thirty-one volumes, but of these one, containing the genealogies of the sovereigns, has been lost.
There are girls in those unfamiliar villages worthy to inspire any statuary, beautiful with the beauty of ruddy bronze, gracile as the palmettoes that sway above them.... Further seaward you may also pass a Chinese settlement: some queer camp of wooden dwellings clustering around a vast platform that stands above the water upon a thousand piles; over the miniature wharf you can scarcely fail to observe a white sign-board painted with crimson ideographs.
Miyoshi Kiyotsura says that instead of being "metropolitan tigers" to guard the palace, they were "rural wolves" to despoil the provinces. This celebrated document consisted of twelve articles and contained five thousand ideographs, so that nothing was wanting in the matter of voluminousness. The writer did not confine himself to enumerating abuses: he also suggested remedies.
Yet again these pictures may stand neither as pictures of things nor as ideographs, but as having the phonetic value of a syllable. Such syllabic signs may be used either singly, as above, or in combination, as illustrated below. But one other stage of evolution is possible, namely, the use of signs with a purely alphabetical significance.
As a result, the king of Tampu-tocco, instigated thereto by the priests, determined to abolish this new thing. Its usefulness had not yet been firmly established. In fact it was inconvenient; the leaves withered, dried, and cracked, or blew away, and the writings were lost. Had the new invention been permitted to exist a little longer, some one would have commenced to scratch ideographs on rocks.
Among the small barons subject to the Imagawa there was one called Matsudaira Motoyasu. He had taken the name, Motoyasu, by adopting one of the ideographs of Yoshimoto's appellation. His family, long in alliance with the Imagawa, were at a variance with the Oda, and in the battle of Okehazama this Motoyasu had captured one of the Owari forts.
Most curious were tripods, strong, pikelike legs of golden metal four feet high, holding small circles of the lapis with intaglios of one curious symbol somewhat resembling the ideographs of the Chinese. There was no dust nowhere in these caverned spaces had I found this constant companion of ours in the world overhead. My eyes caught a sparkle from a corner.
"What Princess?" further inquired the boy. "Our Princess," was the reply. "Oh, you are from the palace near the west gate?" "Yes," and the boy and the servant continued their conversation until the former had learned all that the letter contained, whereupon he brought me the message. I opened the letter, written in the Chinese ideographs, and called the messenger in. "Is the Princess very ill?"
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