{"collection":"shi","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/shi/npj/npj52.htm","path":"shi/npj/npj52.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/shi/npj/npj52.htm","text":"BY KWANAMI OR SEAMI\nT\u014cRU was a prince who built a great palace at Rokuj\u014d-kawara, near Ky\u014dto. In its grounds was a counterfeit of the bay of Naniwa, which was filled and emptied twice a day in imitation of the tides. Labourers toiled up from the sea-shore, which was many miles distant, carrying pails of salt water.\nIn the play a priest passing through Rokuj\u014d-kawara meets an old man carrying salt-water pails. It is the ghost of T\u014dru. In the second part he rehearses the luxury and splendour of his life at the great palace Rokuj\u014d-kawara no In.","title":"The Noh Plays of Japan: Chapter VII: Summaries: T\u014dru","type":"page"}