A glimpse of the isles of the Pacific . and matting from being soiled or temple is about sixty feet long and twenty feet wideand twenty-five feet high, and empty, except for fourcylinder-like metal boxes, which are said to contain theScriptures. There is a fee of a few cents for admission, andone seedy-looking Jap, called the priest, but I think he wasthe janitor, sat near the door. Just back of this room, anda part of the same building, is another room which wewere not permitted to enter, a kind of Holy of Buddhist does not preach sermons, and the people donot gather i
A glimpse of the isles of the Pacific . and matting from being soiled or temple is about sixty feet long and twenty feet wideand twenty-five feet high, and empty, except for fourcylinder-like metal boxes, which are said to contain theScriptures. There is a fee of a few cents for admission, andone seedy-looking Jap, called the priest, but I think he wasthe janitor, sat near the door. Just back of this room, anda part of the same building, is another room which wewere not permitted to enter, a kind of Holy of Buddhist does not preach sermons, and the people donot gather in numbers at the temple, but a few sometimeskneel before it and pay their respects (they do not offerprayers) and leave a few copper coins of very little leaving the temple, we climbed two very long flightsof stone steps to view the tomb of the Shogun, leyasuleyasu, who built this temple three hundred years monument which marks his resting place is made ofbronze, about twenty feet high, of a fanciful pattern, some- i8i. thing like a Japanese lamp. The burial place, about fiftyfeet square is paved with tiat stones and enclosed with ahigh stone wall. Just before the gate to this enclosure is asmall chapel about forty feet long and twenty feet wide,cjuite pretty in appearance. This temple and tomb, and, infact, all the temples at Nikko are situated in a forest ofCedar trees, which are very high and cast a deep shadeover the whole place. On leaving this we visited a Shinto temple. Here wepass a fine pagoda one hundred and four feet high (sixstories), through a Japanese stone gateway, then anothergateway, or arch, guarded by devilish looking stone images,both inside and outside the gate, and take off shoes asbefore. At this temple, there were nearly a dozen Japanesekneeling, paying their respects, and leaving a few coppercoins. This room was about forty feet long and twentyfeet wide; the walls were decorated with wood carving, andfloor covered with straw matting. At
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