The Light upon the Sea. A short story by artist Samizu Matsuki DRAFT

 The lights upon the sea

 By Samizu Matsuki 

Chapter 1 The year of 1945 has particular significance to the school kids who happened to live alongside the Tohoku Mainline and beyond IBURI-HONSEN (the main line)  because of frequent visits by Royal family members and most often, Emperor HIROHITO himself.

 As customarily we used to bow lowest when the train marked with the 6-petaled golden chrysanthemum happened to pass through those particulars places. as I mention since the frequency itself makes every suspicion that the Emperor could have been in any area other than "ours" - TOHOKU and IBURI HONSEN, the main artery of the railroads heading toward "North" And of course coming from the same direction. 

That's how often the Japanese Royal family traveled toward North, possibly to Manchuria.  

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For the Manchurian Railroad system then was the most "modern" of all within the Great Asian Co-prosperity Sphere's boundaries  

Anyone could cross the Bering Strait by jumping into the one of the "Red Dragonfly, AKATOMBO, riding it right into the nearest train state on the continent, most likely Vladivostok, the largest port operated by the Japanese Military Powers, thus the center of the transportation network which comnmnect the Western part  of the continent.

From that point on, the journey was "safer" than those off in the mainlands.  The experiences in the SINO-JAPANESE WAR shook them into the practical wisdom ofthe Barbarians, that is, one must prepare one's way before getting into serious marching.  Thus the enormous amouind of capital was pouring down...

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... like fluid through the government (such as contributions).

The MANSHU-TETSUDO ther Manchurian Railroad, prospered and the military branch of the government, which played the protagonist of all gained proportionate power against those other branches of the system. 


This was around the middle of 1930s to perhaps 1940. Japan's then very powerful aviational arsenals industries were the product of the period.  Russia was yet to declare war against the Empire, and the quality of  AKATOMBO,  Ich____  Mitsuboshi - airplane was then 2nd only to the allied government - Germany. (Remember the Red Baron!)  

We never developed maneuverable double or triple winged aero-vehicles. And the Great Pacific was too wide for we  had to not only come back but also to reach to the destiny - as we expand  our territory, that is we win the battle,  we began to exhaust our capacity to maintain rule.  We couldn't even get to our destination before the gasoline or whatever fuel our double winged aero-planes could carry.

General MacArthur knew already  of this and waited at the shore of the Philippines. When he said "I shall return" he actually meant it.  Because of this fore-knowledge, he simply calculated out of "common sense"  (an important faculty for the carrying out DEMOCRACY safely to the shore) when he'd got the news of the incompleteness of the ongoing MANCHURIAN RAILROAD Project.

PG 4

END CHAPTER 1

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CHAPTER 2.

“Did you see the emperor?”  one of my closer friends asked me in a tiny whispering voice, frightened a little at the same time.

“How do you know?” I asked her. How does she know?

“I saw you!” 

“How could you ever see me if you really are bowing as hard as we've been told! You are as guilty as I am even worse you tried to incriminate me -- for what? For MONEY?! A blackmail?!”  I literally  barked. She changed subject quickly.

“I saw him, that’s why- That’s why I’ve got to press you –“    To this grave confession?  Ha Ha ha!   So, how do you think – Is he real?” 

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What do you mean "REAL"  Of course its the real Emperor, not a phantom. NOr do I lie."

"How he looked like? See I can't see well - I'm neaersighted and on the way of becoming a 4-EYE monster.  He didn't seem real to me, though."

"What do you mean? What do you mean?  The Emperora big phony? An imposter?"

"I didn';t say so. Those are your interpretations.  What I'd meant was that he did'nt look like a people. I mean the visage I saw in that black car looked  more like a dummy. A scarecrow.  That's what I meant."

She said nothing and looked into my 4-EYE MONSTER eyes with great interest.

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But, by the time I got my spectacles, the Royal visit to our town had long been history.  I';ve neverseen the ermperor through my looking glass.

Well, He's stiff anyway -I might have been mistaken in my judgement. Then I said silently to myself 

- Anyway  Why do "THEY" have to deceive us?   "THEY" meaning the Rulers, excluding the Head of All, the Emperor holiest himself.


"May be - I said aloud without realizing I was doing so.

Then I became very nervous - "War is not doing well --

That's why. what else can be so important that you've got to involve the Emperor himself!

If so! THEY'VE GOT TO deceive us!"  I could hardly wait to 

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"...go back home and question my parents, especially my father. Because this is a MAN's war...

"If I were the head of entire situation I surely would have run things differently" said my Mother.   "Too much reliance on spiritual side of the WAR is unreliable, because there more certainly exist  their Opponent - the Land of MATTER! 

It's like my father and my mother, the latter being the representative of the dimensions of the Matter and former the Spirit,  and we are currently operating within the dimension of Synthesis.

You've only got 50-50 chance on the right side!"

How about if you were right? We all simply and absolutely must be punished, win or lose for defying the Law of NATURE, which 

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is inherent of  50% of losing and no matter which side you'll be the candidate  for ultimate loser of 100%.

You defied the GOD by defying the Laws of NATURE, since no humans ever participate in the formula* making process for the law.

Its not man made? Then who made It?  The God, who else greater than the human?  A common sense?  Now you are in  the One Dimensional Reality in which there exist no alternative  whatsoever, 100% either wrong or right. Oh! God!

"I'LL BE A GOOD GIRL

so help me God in an effort  to seek Dimension in which numeral alternatives are available, so that even this pitiful ____ like myself  would have a chance to survive happily sot sadly. ___Thank You!"

Was my prayer for ensuring the whole span of the year?


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Of course later on I'd found the nearby  sphere like the earth ____ly a multdimensional, and I laughed at myself for the fear I had because I'd stupidly put  myself in the One Dimensional  reality, or even 3rd D Reality for that matter.

You can safely  be on the side of righteousness* on this earth if you realize that you are in the infinitely multi-dimensional entity called the sphere.

What else is more close to infinite than the  number to which you can reach by counting every possible  "CENTER" OF EVERY Creature, live or dead. Contained in this sphere called the Earth?

I came to the conclusion I'll be a very staunch supporter of democracy, if nothing else it  be for above mentioned reason's sake.

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This childhood determination may as well be the spiritual source of my being  an animal rights sympathize at this later years of my life. The concept of so called BIO-DIVERSITY" had begun to identify  general area of awareness after the World Conference at Rio, South America in the summer of 1992.

And I thought I'd begun this procedural steps toward the realization of Democracy by spherical governing method over the creature when its application is limited to HOMO SAPIENS.  

Beyond that, it'll be of GLOBAL SCALE problems simply because, if you include even one species which is not homo sapiens, it doesn't make sense unless you include all of them. We say "Compared to the Lilies of the Valley, we were promised to be taken care of better. See?

But friends, you see, its all because we are more poorly made in comparison with the Lilies.

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I've read somewhere during the late '60s az magazing article which reporter that the sciewntists now found the Lilies in the wilderness, manifest nearly complete expression of their genetic capabilities. All the help the Creator can give has already been given to them, while we humans are not.

I picked the domestic cat to begin my bio-diversity program, simply because I've got one already with me.  The Cat's name is "Kitty".

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"TEL-US"

Chapter 3


Place: Inside of the dining room of  Matsu family

Time: After dinner - tea and or water and or nothing but talk time.

CAST: 

MR. MATSU  LATE 30s. Occupation schoolmaster.

MRS MATSU  MIDDLE 30S. Occupation: schoolteacher

MISS MATSU    1st Daughter. student 12 years old

MISS MATSU    2nd daughter   ""     10 years old.

MASTER MATSU  1st son         " "    7 years old

MISS MATSU    3rd daughter   "" ""   5 years old

MASTER MUTSU  2nd son                3 years old

MISS MATSU    4th Daughter           Still embryo


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ACT ONE   SCENE ONE


D#1  "Father I have  alwys wanted to ask you  a question, ever sine I was  9 years old and for the time in my life faced this vital question mark. Can I ask you now?"

MR M. "Oh sure, but whi did you postpone for so long?"

D#1  "It was simply forgotten and suddeny now it came back to my mind!  The question is...father... The question's:  did you know the defeat of Japanese before  it was declared by the Emperor?

MR M "What! Let me think.. This is really a surprise for me.  I thought all the time that you understood what and why of what I believe."

D#1 "  Of course. It's silly to imagine you  as anything but a pacifist, a follower of Mahatma Gandhi...Of course you knew!  


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