Seed of the SunThe author "describes the activities of a Japanese society which supports Japanese schools and Buddhist temples for the spread of the doctrine of the Divine Emperor and in general operates to force out American fruit growers from the richest soil in the coast states. The story will open the eyes of readers to the little-known facts in the racial problem on the Pacific Coast"--Dust jacket |
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Page 10 - Even unto the tenth generation, Japanese with blond skins and blue eyes will still be Japanese" (233). The opening of Seed of the Sun is laden with symbolism and is worth quoting at length, as it exemplifies the typical patterns of the invasion novels: 128 Early spring air was gorgeous with flying kites and flying clouds over the little short town with the little short name — a name, by the way, which the Japanese inhabitants could not pronounce because the letter / will always be an obstacle to...
Page 56 - Tazumi had indicated on the map with the point of his delicate forefinger, sits near the river bank and not many miles distant from the busy city which the people of Nippon call Ofu — City of Cherries — and the long-haired ones of the West call Sacramento. Aviators, flying over from the government fields beyond, look down on the huddle of mean buildings in the midst of neatly squared orchards and plantations, and as they pass over they say, "Japtown !
Page 349 - Ely region had to be Japanese ; that my farm was a keystone to an arch of land that had to be held solidly together. He said that the Japanese were moving in America, just as they were moving in Manchuria and Siberia, to gain control of the land that was to make them a great people upon earth.
Page 234 - Yamato germinate anew! Beget, beget, beget! While the Emperor permitted it, it was well that you brought wives from the homeland — young wives and fertile. And now it is more important still that we marry into this American stock. Prove your race equality in the blood of your children. Choose white women if you can. Where this is not practicable, marry negroes, Indians, Hawaiians. "'Do not fear that our race shall be lost in such a mingling of blood. The blood of Japan is immortal, because it is...
Page 141 - An expression of will in the form of an imperative sentence, which, though independent in form, is logically dependent: 'Laugh as much as you like, I shall stick to my plan to the bitter end.' 'The massive person of Mr. Bradlaugh is entirely excluded from sight, crane your neck as you may.' 'Marietta's the best fore-and-aft, up-and-down little housekeeper on the island, bar none and challenge all comers' (Wallace Irwin, Seed of the Sun, Ch.
Page 282 - Out round Lodi the IWW delegates were nailing up signs demanding five dollars a day for an eight-hour day and seventy-five cents an hour for overtime. Work seems to have gone out of fashion. What's happening to our country...
Page 235 - ... Am I not a noble example of inter-marriage?" "But why do they want it ?" she persisted. "They want to borrow your stature," he said. "They have already borrowed your telegraph instruments, your educational systems, your military equipment, your advertising methods. They have borrowed your brain, but they cannot change their bodies without one thing — intermarriage. Don't you see? Four feet six wants to become six feet four. Then Japan will have everything.
Page 52 - I'm not worth the powder to blow me up. I never stick long at anything. I've been a revolutionist in India, a student in Massachusetts, a water carrier with the British Army at Saloniki.
Page 334 - I hope you will forgive me before we part, for it may be a long time before we see each other again.
Page 217 - I am no worshiper of money, Anna, but I have a great deal of it. You would enjoy among my people the place you deserve. You would be a figure in court society. You could live again among the great of the earth.