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nder Mrs. Shigemura's tutelage she had
,lerselfin the face of it. It was a matter in
breathing, but even more so of soul. Mrs. Shigemuta
to seek union with the Greater Life and to imagine herself
leaf on a great tree: The prospect of death in autumn,
was irrelevant next to its happy recognition of its participa
in the life of the tree itself. In America, she said, there was
of death; here life was separate from Being. A Japanese, o
other hand, must see that life embraces death, andwhensh
the truth of this she will gain tranquillity.
Mrs. Shigemura taught Hatsue to sit without m
od that she would not mature properly unless
•••-,...ctended periods. Living in Ame
cult. because here there
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