Today in Japan, with a glance at yesterday . St Pill fisr. vmmsmmemmAA .????? ???a- A CASTLE OF OLD JAPANwith protecting walls and moat rotting by the roadside, as if he would give the outlawdecent burial. Stopping before the Buddhist temple, with its gracefulroofs of gray tile, he steps through the torii into the tem-ple enclosure, so holy, so noisy and dirty/ with itsvotive tablets, idols, spit-balls, smells, dust, dirt and its 5 nastiness and holiness. Standing among stone lanternshe watches the worshippers,—who are but few in thesestagnant days,—as they make their heave offerings of cashin
Today in Japan, with a glance at yesterday . St Pill fisr. vmmsmmemmAA .????? ???a- A CASTLE OF OLD JAPANwith protecting walls and moat rotting by the roadside, as if he would give the outlawdecent burial. Stopping before the Buddhist temple, with its gracefulroofs of gray tile, he steps through the torii into the tem-ple enclosure, so holy, so noisy and dirty/ with itsvotive tablets, idols, spit-balls, smells, dust, dirt and its 5 nastiness and holiness. Standing among stone lanternshe watches the worshippers,—who are but few in thesestagnant days,—as they make their heave offerings of cashinto the huge coffer before the altar, bowing the headand rubbing the hands for the gods blessing upon sympathy seems particularly to be drawn out towardthat mother, with her two children, rubbing the dirtyold wooden head and limbs of the ugly, one-eyed god ofhealing, polished greasy and black by the attrition ofthousands of palms, and then applying the gods virtueto the bodies of her children. Indeed he acts as if hewould spea
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