Autumn Festival Services in Hongkew Shanghai's Japanese community continued to throng the compound of the Shanghai Jinja, the Shinto Shrine in Hongkew, on Saturday, as the annual autumn festival entered on its second day. The yearly observance ended on Sunday with a spans meeting in Hongkew Park.
Special precautions were being taken by the Consular and Shanghai Municipal police to prevent the entry of unauthorized persons.
Appropriately to the festival, the photograph of the frst Japanese shrine in Shanghai was found in the home of Mr. "Kumataro Mural, 315 Woosung Road, on Friday, the third anniversary of the founding of the Shanghai Jinja, According to Mr, Mural, the pleture was taken in 1908 to record the simple structure where the Japanese residents of that day offered their prayers, The Japanese population was then about 600, The shrine, named the Pootung Kompira Jinja, was in the compound occupied by the godowns of the Mitsui Company. It was later trans-{ferred to the Rokusan Gardens. in Chapel, when it was renamed the Kojo Jinja and obtained its charter from the Suwa Jinja in Nagasaki, in 1933, it was moved to its present site and dedicated to the worship of the Sun Goddess, the founder of the [Japanese Empire; Meiji, the father of modern Japan.
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