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The Identity of the Awata-Gire Fragments
No full textFollowing her already published efforts to furnish valuable materials to the study of Japanese fine arts, literature, history, etc. by collecting, and establishing the identity of, various kire or fragments of old manuscript copies of unknown works(vide “A Detached Segment from Obusuma Saburō Emaki,” No. 222, May, 1962, “A Study and Collection of Hino-Gire,” No. 233, Mar., 1964, and “Fragmentary Text of the Kagerō no Niki Diary Possibly in the Form of a Picture Scroll,” No.241, July, 1965, this Journal,) the writer aims this time at the so-called Awata-gire fragments.
The three Awata fragments the writer knows, pasted in three te-kagami albums, all registered national treasures, contain the following fragmentary tale : ――
“――, thinking it useless to survive in the world with such a shameful body hated by all people, made up his mind to drown himself in a river. He, therefore, charged his boy servant with his last message to the parents he had left behind him in the country. The servant, however, advised him to go home to see his parents himself even though he contemplated committing suicide. On the advice of the servant, he took leave of his master priest, and started for his native province of Ise (now Mie Prefecture.)”
The writer has succeeded in finding the continuation of this fragmentary tale in the first chapter of the Jizō Engi Emaki or picture scroll illustrating tales of Ksitigarbha, a Buddhist bodhisattva, merciful saviour, formerly in the possession of the Hōnen Ji temple, Kyoto, Japan. In other words, the Awata fragments are none other than the missing foremost part of the Hōnen Ji text. In confirmation of this supposition she Jizō Engi scroll dated in the late Kamakura Period.
The remaining part of the first chapter of the the Hōnen Ji scroll accurately corresponds to the Awata Hōnen Ji scroll is to the following effect : ――
“Arriving home in Ise, he saw his parents and the beginning of the tale of Shinki for which Awata talked to them all about his disease (probably leprosy.) T. fragments have not yet been found, on the basis of a His mother prayed earnestly to Jizō for mercy. That clever interpretation of the picture and of a short account night he dreamt a little priest poured healing liquid onA gleaned from a certain old Buddhist work that tells how him, and he awoke to find his skin restored to its Shinki, when a boy, was found wise and was taken out former clearness. He returned to the temple in Nara, of the country to the Kōbuku Ji temple in Nara for where he resumed his Buddhist studies, finally rising Buddhist studies by a certain townsman. to the high position of the superior of the temple. He The hero of the tale, Bishop Shinki, the writer adds, was Bishop Shinki of the Kōbuku Ji temple.”
The reader will not wuestion Miss Tamura's supposition that the Awata fragments are connected with the Hōnen Ji text. confirmation of this supposition she says, after careful examination, that the picture 1 of the Hōnen Ji scroll accurately corresponds to the Awata fragmentary tale. Moreover, the winter skilfully restores the beginning of the tale of Shinki for which Awata fragments have not yet benn found, on theabsis of a clever interpretation of the picture and of a short account gleaned from a certain old Buddhist work that tells how Shinki, when a boy, was found wise and was taken out of the country to the Kōbuku Ji temple in Nara for Buddhist studies by a certian townsman.
The hero of the tale, Bishop Shinki, the writer adds, was a historical personage (d. 1000 A.D.) and he was The reader will not question Miss Tamura's suppo really born in the Province of Ise as the tale tells.journal articl
Letter, [Author unclear] to Paulina T. Merritt
No full textHandwritten letter to Paulina Merritt from an unknown author, October 1, 1876.
Handwritten biographical information on Paulina T. McClung Merritt
No full textA handwritten biography of Paulina T. McClung Merritt by an unknown author, 1892.
Heterogeneous and tissue-specific regulation of effector T cell responses by IFN-gamma during Plasmodium berghei ANKA infection.
No full textIFN-γ and T cells are both required for the development of experimental cerebral malaria during Plasmodium berghei ANKA infection. Surprisingly, however, the role of IFN-γ in shaping the effector CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cell response during this infection has not been examined in detail. To address this, we have compared the effector T cell responses in wild-type and IFN-γ(-/-) mice during P. berghei ANKA infection. The expansion of splenic CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells during P. berghei ANKA infection was unaffected by the absence of IFN-γ, but the contraction phase of the T cell response was significantly attenuated. Splenic T cell activation and effector function were essentially normal in IFN-γ(-/-) mice; however, the migration to, and accumulation of, effector CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells in the lung, liver, and brain was altered in IFN-γ(-/-) mice. Interestingly, activation and accumulation of T cells in various nonlymphoid organs was differently affected by lack of IFN-γ, suggesting that IFN-γ influences T cell effector function to varying levels in different anatomical locations. Importantly, control of splenic T cell numbers during P. berghei ANKA infection depended on active IFN-γ-dependent environmental signals--leading to T cell apoptosis--rather than upon intrinsic alterations in T cell programming. To our knowledge, this is the first study to fully investigate the role of IFN-γ in modulating T cell function during P. berghei ANKA infection and reveals that IFN-γ is required for efficient contraction of the pool of activated T cells
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Pelevin’s Trinity in the novel “t”: author – protagonist – reader
No full textThe article attempts to interpret Pelevin's artistic strategy in the novel "T" by exploring its subject organization and addressing the key problems of the author, the protagonist, and the reader as they are seen by the researcher. The article analyzes the peculiarities of constructing the narrative reality in the novel "T", and goes on to discuss Pelevin's philosophic models of the development of the humankind, and the emergence of his new anthropology
Measuring industry-science links through inventor-author relations: A profiling method
No full textIn this pilot study we examine the performance of text-based profiling in recovering a set of validated inventor-author links. In a first step we match patents and publications solely based on their similarity in content. Next, we compare inventor and author names on the highest ranked matches for the occurrence of name matches. Finally, we compare these candidate matches with the names listed in a validated set of inventor-author names. Our text-based profile methodology performs significantly better than a random matching of patents and publications, suggesting that text-based profiling is a valuable complementary tool to the name searches used in previous studies.innovation; industry-science links; text-based profiling;
Ichthyosis disorder in Chianina cattle : identification of the inherited transmission by pedigree analysis and sequencing of TGM1 candidate gene
No full textWave turbulence of a rotating array of quantized vortices in the T → 0 temperature limit
No full textThe dynamics of quantized vortices in the zero temperature limit is currently of great interest, particularly in the case of the Fermi superfluid He-B. Here we study wave turbulence, generated by the librating motion of a rotating cylindrical container filled with He-B, in the limit of vanishing viscous forces at temperatures . The polarization of the quantized vortices with respect to the axis of rotation is measured using non-invasive NMR techniques. We observe a decrease of the polarization when the librating motion is started, and a two-stage relaxation process when the modulation of the rotation velocity is stopped. The first relaxation process is associated with the dissipation of large-scale flow stored in inertial waves and the solid body rotation of the vortex array. From the decay of these energy reservoirs we determine the rate of energy dissipation of large-scale flow. The later second process is related to the relaxation of Kelvin waves on individual vortices. This process is monitored by the recovery of the polarization. The existence of a Kelvin wave cascade at the lowest temperatures is currently a central open question. We supply some evidence for the cascade
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