Japan : described and illustrated by the Japanese (1897)
Brinkley, F. (Frank), 1841-1912, Mundy, Arthur J, Okakura, Kakuzō, 1862-1913 · Boston : J.B. Millet company · leaf 24
JAPAN. 241 prayers and purchases is evidenced by the crowd that the city pours out to the Tori-no Machi every fall, and by the eager happiness of the worshippers' mien. But if any members of the upper classes go it is only to look and to laugh. In the festivals of which we have thus far spoken… … the gods. If that be so, it is a flame twenty-five centuries old. The origin of the fire-guard- ing cult is now so well understood, and its practice has been traced to so many races, that to find it in Japan also is neither surprising nor specially significant. But, as might have been anticipated,…
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