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The Harp That Waited in the Valley
A celebrated musician climbs to a mountain valley to play a legendary harp, and finds it silent beneath her skilled hands. Only after many unhurried days of listening to the stream, the pines, and her own breath does she learn that the instrument does not answer strength or reputation, but humility, sounding at last with a music that belonged to the valley all along.
Retold from The Book of Tea, by Okakura Kakuzō.
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Story 14 of Lantern Light, at 2:55:24.