Building Up

Knowledge Bank
Lesson 2
JAPAN
Land of the Rising
Sun
 Patrick Lafcadio Hearn
Koizumi Yakumo
( 小泉八雲 )

Hearn was an American journalist whose

parents were Irish and Greek. He spent
the latter part of his life in Japan later
marrying a Japanese girl. His interest in
the Oriental culture inspired him to write
the English version of well-loved
Chinese and Japanese folktales. When he
became a Japanese citizen, he took the
name Yakumo Kaizumi.
VOCABULARY
DEVELOPMENT
1. In the Tower of the Great Bell: now the (1) mallet
is lifted to (2) smite the lips of the metal monster—
the vast lips inscribed with Buddhist texts.
(1) A mallet is _______ a hammer, an axe, a saw
(2) To smite is to _____ hit, touch, caress
VOCABULARY
DEVELOPMENT
3. Therefore, the molds had to be once more prepared, and the
fires (3) rekindled, and the metal remelted, and all the work
tediously and (4) toilsomely repeated.

(3)rekindled means _____ lighted again,set on fire again,

stopped the fire
(4) toilsomely means _____ withdifficulty, lightly, unmindfully
The Soul of the Great Bell