2-716-815 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'"Listen Sawaichi!" said the Heavenly Voice, "Through the faith of your wife and the merits of her accumulated prayers your lives shall be prolonged".', 1919. '"Your blindness is the result of sin in your former life. The end of this life had come for you both, but through the faith of your wife and the merits of her accumulated prayers, your lives shall be prolonged. Therefore believe and devote your lives to prayer, and make a pilgrimage to the thirty-three holy places, where you must offer up thanks for the grace of Buddha"..."Sawaichi San! My husband! Your eyes are open!" "Yes, yes, my eyes are open indeed! Oh, oh, my eyes are open, open, open! My eyes are open at last! I can hardly believe it," cried Sawaichi, joyfully.' Illustration to "Tsubosaka", a story in "Romances of Old Japan", by Madame Yukio Ozaki. [Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd, London, 1919]