The Archive · 1930

Survival of Old Japan

Picturesque Moonlight Dances Before an Old Temple and Scramble for Prayer Rods lbuc, He sweeps the multitude with his eye for a minute or 30 and then throws two shing (prayer rods, that is to say, slabs of consecrated, }wood on which sacred scrolls have!

—t0 we thought at least—was tha Chief of Police of the prefcetuse: in which this little country towa is situated resplendent in alf Occidental uniform profusely and been written) into the mass of nak-led, yellow body Simultaneously, #nd brass buttons. The police chief< ornately decorated with gilt brat chester Universities 0, 7.

Tokyo, July 10.) The crowd here was enormous legi Wassha!", Frost Ocr Own Commssroxoexr eke Felon den Biante rams Guten, commanded the Zod ed the Sad cent days, ere becoming Terer aid hngereon of the side-ahows|prangr roon'wato tain of tee Sree al tae Trees Proereahns easily 30,000, but, except for the this be more deafening if/jut nex to the balcony from than before.—The the prayer rods were thrown. Rifle Brigade and, a dozen yea lof ancient days, are becoming rarer afterwards, in 1927, obtained his and rarer in consequence of the whose job was to bring in custom-jand a regular bust-and-scramble their tripods and magnesium flares, second holding of that command in rapid inroads of modernism, and a jete by hook or by crook, we did fight is waged to secure thera, {reporters and—perhaps the vernaca, the normal way. He was a brigalarge number of the old festival mot come in for the attention, more Slowly, the mass of nude bodies bepapers did so—aliens like the Gier-general in France, having the fend rites that still remain are s9 embarrassing than otherwise, tha: [comes smaller and smaller and writer, and it becomes more that 107th and 182nd Infantry Brigades hedged in with the gloss of novelty is generally the portion of the nonapparent that, these days, it will and served afterwards with the Ist that the exotic character belonging Japanese. Leaving the crowd, our signs that there was such a coa-be little short of miraculous to be Rifle Brigade in the suppression of to these has all but vanished. guide turned us abruptly into test may be found in the emergency able to get altogether away from the Arab rebellion in Mesopotamia. side lane, we crossed a crooked, 'Yet in the less frequented and Red Kross tents where. first aid ithe modern, Ju 1925 he went to Belgium wooden bridge and found ourselves rather inaccessible parts of Japan iboing rendered or in some corner instructor at the Senior. Oficer's on the edge of the temple grounds, Jessentials, have not been touched] there, til exist festivals that, in lof the courtyard where a from witch came, wafted to our lend or relative dinding some-

Boars Ricker rune He has a strong personality >¥ new-fangled fashions and the|"Hojsal Was-sha! Was-sha! Hoi-againat the ¢hange-inducing processes that fol- ayu Boers, Arabs, Turks, and others, low tu the marek of Ties Sach not be Ynown for some time, And The Medium That Wi 10 won the shing? inet pak: wit That wi

and with Indian troops, showed him is to be found along the was the En-yo. What, you ask, the prize is not always to the stron, in the light of a tactful administra shores of the picturesque Inland is En-yo? Let us request Father Makes Advertising lor the fleet. Often comparatively for and competent leader of troops. to project us backward on the long road he has travelled until we weak men have secured the cherieh-Pay in China The luck is with Tientsin in getting fare in the days of the glory tha: ed prayer-rod by means of a ruse. of shimmering blue water, Ite few[onee was Greece. We. are, amidst] 0° (io instance, a comrade will be on are ye eae

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