Suered Bridge at Nikko! In other words, the Mi-hoshi or Ret Bridge which though of no artistic beauty, used to form such a prominent feature in the lands ca once one passed the famous village of Nikko, is the recent typhoon." Tt has had a strange history—this Mi-hashi—a history which carries us back to the time when Japan produced as many Buddhist saints as she how produces agnostic barbers, Shod6 Shonin is the holy man who is most clo-ely connected with Nikko and with the Reed Bridye thereof, He lived in the eighth century and early devoted himself to the worship of the gods. After a novitiate of five years among Chinese priests, he returned to the mountain now called Kobu-
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