![]() ![]() When he was thrown in here there were no other prisoners except himself. After arriving, he had been brought out twice for investigation, and this gave him a chance to see what the place looked like outside-a bamboo fence faced threateningly inwards, while further outside were the thatch-roofed houses in which dwelt the guards. Here food was pushed in to him once each day. Light entered through a little barred window and a small grating, fixed with a sliding wooden door through which a plate could barely be passed. Only just built, it looked like a kind of storehouse inside, it was slightly raised from the ground. The prison was on the slope of a hill, surrounded by trees. Once again he was put up on the barebacked horse. It is instructive to consider the background of those early priests who came. In this respect Christianity has been puzzling and alien to me as Endos words indicate, it is 'a baggy Western suit.' This suit seems especially ill-fitting to me, for unlike Endo I was raised in a devout Buddhist family. ![]() When the exchange of greetings had come to an end and the band that had escorted him from Omura turned their horses and vanished off along the road to the north where the sun’s rays still fell gently, the priest was surrounded by the group that had come for him from Nagasaki. Shusaku Endo and Silence 147 Christ's love. Now the priest knew that he was going to be handed over to a new escort. Still on horseback he greeted the newcomers with a bow which was solemnly answered. Immediately the samurai with the pipe jumped astride his horse and galloped with all speed toward the oncoming crowd. ‘They’re here! They’re here!’ yelled the guards, pointing toward the south and from that direction there slowly approached a band of samurai and their attendants, similar to the ones here waiting. Probably he had got tired of crawling after them and had dropped away. Sometimes the priest would look back over the road along which they had come, but there was no sign of Kichijirō-he must have been delayed on the way. silence shusaku endo english is available in our digital library an online access to it is set as public so you can download it instantly. The northern sky was still clear in spots, but toward the south heavy, evening clouds were already gathering. Some of them relieved themselves in the shadow of the rock. Meanwhile the officials looked on enviously.įor a long time, now standing, now sitting on a rock, they all stood looking toward the south. The samurai took two or three pulls, belched out the smoke and then passed on the pipe to his companion. This was the first time since coming to Japan that the priest had seen tobacco. One of the samurai was smoking tobacco with a long pipe. The long period of sitting on horseback with hands tightly bound had taken its toll and when he stood up on the ground, a searing pain shot through his thighs. The samurai were engaged in earnest discussion and when they had finished they gave the order for the priest to be taken down from his horse. Rodrigues's search and his attempts to minister to. Rodrigues has heard rumors that Ferreira has renounced Christianity. Here and there clusters of shrubs seemed to be crawling over the earth but everywhere else only the black-brown ground stretched out endlessly. Sebastian Rodrigues, the protagonist (and, in several chapters, narrator) of Silence, is a Portuguese Jesuit missionary who travels to Japan to seek his onetime mentor, Ferreira. Urn:oclc:60000448 Scandate 20100712153638 Scanner sky grew dark clouds moved slowly over the mountain tops and down over the fields. OL15391655W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 87.96 Pages 328 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0804807205 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:42:38 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA123123 Boxid_2 CH108901 Camera Canon 5D City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary External-identifier ![]()
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