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n a June day in 1936, marine clouds swept out across Nagasaki in a long
gray shelf. Rising gradually from the west coast of Kyushu Island,
Nagasaki, a small city of valleys and hills, was often referred to by travel
guides as the San Francisco of Japan.
A high mountainous ridge divided two valleys into the old city and
the new. The longest valley was the Urakami. There beat the heart of
industrial Nagasaki. From the steep hills terraced with quaint residential
sections, one could look down on the peaceful Urakami River and the tall
smokestacks of modern factories.
Within walking distance of a large textile mill, Hosokawa-Napier,
Limited, stood the largest Catholic cathedral in Japan, giving proof to the
fact that thousands of Nagasaki s citizens worshipped as Christians. The
chiseled stones that housed a faith brought to Japan from the New World
and the high brick walls built to shelter ~odern technology had existed
since the nineteenth century, when Nagasaki had been the first city in the
empire to open its port to trade with the West. Cathedral and weaving mill
gave testimony to the rebirth of this city. God s house remained secure,
but not the house of a dynasty that had woven silk into cloth for more than
sixty years.
Douglas Napier waited with his Japanese partner in the broad gravel
yard of Hosokawa-Napier, Limited, listening to the familiar thunder of
machinery from inside the mill. Having done everything in their power to
keep the looms running, they now waited for the silence they both
dreaded. After a few minutes the mill grew quiet.
Baron Tadashi Hosokawa looked at his American partner but said
nothing. Together they watched the factory smokestacks exhale a wispy
haze. The Hosokawa-Napier signature had been among the first to be
written in smoke across Nagasaki Bay. Now the stacks expelled their last
gasps, which were carried away on the same breeze that lifted the kites of
children playing nearby.
Watching the children, Douglas Napier smiled. This was a city of kite
enthusiasts, and each year during the kite festival, throngs of spectators
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Omamori pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024