The Archive · 1934

Impressive Ceremony

Strong, vital with leashed power, the ritual continued, until I seemed that the priests had caught their hearers into the very spirit ut their profound reverence, "Time faded. T'was as though the whole pageantry of Japan's first religion recalled its own' beginnings,—ever hough the ceremonies in connection with this particular festival orginat~d 1911 with the death of the Into Emperor Meiji, It was the memory of frst causes that swept over all, land here is the story that unfolded fas the chant, accompanied now and again by the' throb of a drum, sevle tallied the past, Four great spirits brood over the focal Shinto "Shrine—those of the Emperor Meiji, the tutelar spirit ut Nagasaki, the Sun Goddess " herself, And Emperor Jimmu, the frst Em. error of his country, ing & Shipbuilding Works, Ltd,, where repairs will be effected, and anticipated that the work will take about 16 days to complete. ili Lower left, Sir Philip is RAF. Crown Copyright Reserved.

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