Betty B
speaker
594 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 8 Aug
Betty B’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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For this the last survivors of the feudal epoch had been brought out and brought in from every part of Japan.
Old samurai who had accompanied their imperious masters in many a famous progress, and had cut down all and any who had the temerity to cross their path.
In joyful arrogance they came to show a degenerate world the martial splendours of their younger days, and the sight was enough to make one overlook the wrongs and dangers of the dead time, and only regret that so much colour and fire had to be swept away to make room for the nation's new life.
For things like these, all art lovers are grateful to Yukio Ozaki, but his two or three intimate friends have more exquisite moments to thank him for.
Let me take you to my favourite garden, he said one day, when I was with him and his wife.
The garden of the seven flowers of autumn.
The sun was setting as we drove for miles beside the river bank.
Leaving the city far behind, we came through leafy lanes, to a half hidden gate through which we passed into a dreamland of misty beauty, all shadowy and subdued in the late October twilight.
Great pale moonflowers swung like scarce lit lamps from tree and trellis.
Feathery autumn grasses waved their plumes below.
The dark, velvety paths led to dim monuments on whose grey stones we could feel rather than read the deep cut characters of classic poems.
All was imbued with the tender melancholy which brings repose not pain.
And even now, in hours of stress and weariness, my memory returns to the starlit peace that reigns a nights in the spirit haunted garden of the seven flowers of autumn.
Things like these mean more to Yukio Ozaki and his wife than all the social and public side of their existence.
Both have the proud, delicate reserves of the aristocrat of mind and soul.
and escape whenever they can from the publicity which has been forced upon them.
It required much persuasion to obtain their permission for this sketch to be published.
Madame Ozaki's last words on the subject were It is true that my life is varied and exceedingly interesting.
One night I may dine at a stake banquet with cabinet ministers and foreign ambassadors, or with distinguished visitors like Mr and Mrs.
Taft.
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