Japanese Craftsman Makes Gifts for Tokyo Shrine Kobe, Mar. 1.
Made of the blood-soaked soil gathered from the China battlefields, a pair of large porcelain flower vases will soon be presented to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, where the spirits of the Japanese war-dead are ishrined.
Mr. Senjo Ogura, ceramics craftsman of Akashi, gathered- the soil, soaked with the blood of Japanese soldiers who died in action on the battlefields, on a recent visit to the war areas. He completed the two Tokyo Prefectural Government soon.
Symbolic of the Japanese national spirit, Int Fuji is depicted on one vase, while cherry blossoms, the traditional emblem of Japanese chi-vairy, are painted on the other—
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