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writings,* he said as we swept his hand over the first scroll. Wow, I thought, almost four hundred years old. “He was followed by — who was then succeeded by —. These are some of their writings.* My interpreter could not keep up very well, nor did I understand all the names or fix on all the dates. I was too puzzled by this lecture and too startled by the age of the rice paper scrolls that lay before me. I stared at them hard, trying to see the centuries in their creases.
He continued, his voice earnest: “In the last century, the Japanese returned to our country, they stayed many years and did many terrible things to our people. Many were killed." I recalled the nation’s history: The Japanese attempted a coup in 1884 when they kidnapped the Korean king. In 1885 they tried again, this time killing the queen. Eventually, after years of diplomatic maneuvering, espionage, and war, they annexed the peninsula in 2 1910. It was a cruel occupation. The Japanese did to the Koreans what Hitler would later do the Poles and Ukrainians. On tours of ' ' .. . - ■* » . > Vi
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