Silk Road: Boy Trekking Through the Mountains to Harvest Ophiocordyceps Sinensis (also known as Chinese Caterpillar Fungus)

JOURNEY TO CHINA 9: A CHINESE DANCE.One is greatly mistaken if one believes the Chinese people to be giddy, joyful and the friend of pleasure: they are on the contrary serious and morose, since their greatest amusement consists in a type of lugubrious walking in which the men and women walk one in front of the other, or one beside the other, and seem to be saying among themselves: brother we should die! In order also to point to the philosophical intention behind this ceremony, the opposite of dancing, they call it: Counter-dancing

(Left) The little village on the far mountainside was already out of sight, and spring was coming around again. The grape trees were like large ailing snakes creeping under the coping stones of the wall. A brown light moved about in the tepid air. The void created by the selfsame every day is likely to chop down even the young trees that were left behind. In this everyday life, a thicket of trees protrudes like a boulder. (Right) The village I lived in has never been thought of as so small. The sun showed itself. The tall poplar forest looks like a beach being blown about by the wind. I grow dizzy just watching that seamless succession. If I can manage to get drunk on this succession of unchanging days, I can also grow to feel like I have taken down an elephant or snake. He differentiated things in this way, like a fluttering butterfly

THE TEMPTATION OF THE NEW St. ANTHONY: In that particular time, a great and fat sinner named Véron felt himself touched by grace: having reflected that the Press was a priesthood, he became a hermit and retired to a wild place in the midst of the steepest mountains of Montmartre. There, he spent his days and nights in prayer, and as a means of mortification, imposed upon himself as a penitence the continual re-reading of the list of subscribers to the Constitutionnel. －For his only food, Véron took at long intervals a light fragment of Regnauld pâté. －The Devil, irritated by this edifying yet unexpected conversion employed different strategies to make St. Véron succumb to his temptations, but our noble coenobite knew how to resist those things which until recently had held so many charms for him: Satan, who had taken the form of the Constitutionnel in order come in person to tempt St. Véron, returned to the road for Paris, furious. －The anchorite of Montmartre has, since this time, been placed in the rank of the greatest saints which Parisian journalism honours, and is especially supplicated by the unfortunates who have a head cold

「一世一代口上 中村歌右衛門」「これより一世一代の口上を申上奉り升る 私義去冬顔見世は京都の約束致升たる所 病気にてアノ方を行申升て二の替り狂言差出し升たる所 又々病気さし起り其上江戸表にて九化の所作事仕升たる所 左りの足をけが致しあの方にてはなんばと申所せ（ひ）なく其まゝおして相勤升る 其怪我か折／＼起り升て狂言中ばにて足の工合そこね升る事厶り升るなれども只今にては私功者になり升てそくざにはめ升れば又々狂言も出来升なれども 右病気故芝居之休日はあれこれ名医を頼升て養生致升る所 表よりはどふじや／＼と尋ねに参り升る 親類ども打寄り是てはどふも表へすまず傍ばい共へも相済ぬゆへ なんで有ふと舞台を引くがよいと申升る 私も五十には二三年も間も厶り升 中／＼一世一代致したふは厶り升んなれどもこう病気／＼では所詮勤らぬ事なれば先中山文七殿五十才にて一世一代致され升たが役者共のよい手本て厶り升る 夫をまねび升て中村鶴介に三番叟の役を相勤させ升る これは文七殿一世一代の時泉川☆蔵中芝居より参り三番叟役相つとめ升たるかたを取升て厶り升る 私も首尾よふ舞納め升て江戸表におり升る関三十郎 此者は中村歌助と申升てわたくし弟子に厶り升る 此者に歌右衛門をゆづり 鶴助に芝翫をゆづり升て私は加賀屋市兵衛と改め素人に相成升たなれば市兵衛どふじやかはる事はないと御尋下さりませ 鰕十郎は幼少より兄弟ぶんに相成をり升れは此度一世一代仕升るに付なぜ相談はしてくれぬと涙こぼしていふてくれ升 中／＼私も引たふは厶り升んなれ共病気故の事で厶り升る イヤ／＼あれはあのやうに一世一代して又二三年の内に出るで有ふと思召御方も厶り升ふが中々大坂へは出升ぬ たびへは弐三年も参るつもりで厶り升 又々出るやうなさやうなみじゆくな私でも厶り升ん私弟子四十人から厶り升れは女形の□□は三光歌六におさとうし升るで厶り升る 是におり升る忰共又は弟子共の義御頼申度は厶り升れと余り長事申上ケまするとかへつて御たいくつと何事も申升ん 今月一ぱい仕り升れはあれも幼少よりなしみの事じやかつは大坂のぐわいぶんじやとおふせ合され升てたゞヱイトウ／＼と御見物の程おそれなからすみからすみまでずいと奉希申上升る