{"collection":"shi","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/shi/npj/npj43.htm","path":"shi/npj/npj43.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/shi/npj/npj43.htm","text":"(THE FISHER-GIRL)\nBy SEAMI\nFUJIWARA NO FUSAZAKI was the child of a fisher-girl. He was taken from her in infancy and reared at the Capital. When he grew to be a man he went to Shido to look for her. On the shore he met with a fisher-girl who, after speaking for some while with him, gave him a letter, and at once vanished with the words: \"I am the ghost of the fisher-girl that was your mother.\" The letter said:\nTen years and three have passed since my soul fled to the Yellow Clod. Many days and months has the abacus told since the white sand covered my bones. The Road of Death is dark, dark; and none has prayed for me.\nI am your mother. Lighten, A lighten, dear son, the great darkness that has lain round me for thirteen years!\nThen Fusazaki prayed for his mother's soul and she appeared before him born again as a Blessed Dragon Lady of Paradise, carrying in her hand the scroll of the Hokkeky\u014d (see Plate II), and danced the Hayamai, the \"swift dance,\" of thirteen movements. On the Kong\u014d stage the Dragon Lady is dressed as a man; for women have no place in Paradise.","title":"The Noh Plays of Japan: Chapter VII: Summaries: Ama (The Fisher-Girl)","type":"page"}