Because the Tonbo hut is one li from lower Yujima, half-way up the steeply towering mountain, cutting deep into the feet of deep rooted boulders, it barely eats into half a tsubo, and half a tsubo of the back projects into the empty sky.
The facts of an extraordinarily deep-rooted revolution did not appear to tempt his soul, even with his enjoyment of the labours of sovereigns and heroes who trample the whole world under iron hooves.
People who keep to faiths which believe in the strength of the divine mysteries of such peaches, formed in and introduced from China or Korea, apart from rare customs that progressed in the places that carried them out, if ones that imitate them were prevalent, being more deep-rooted than we think, they can be thought of as things which were widely conducted.
1923, 芥川龍之介 [Ryūnosuke Akutagawa], 大正十二年九月一日の大震に際して [Concerning the Earthquake of the 1st September Taishō 12]:
それだけに震災の我我作家に与へる影響はさほど根深くはないであらう。
It seems due to precisely that, the influence which the earthquake confers on us authors is not so deep rooted.