There seems to be a sense of divine magic in the very atmosphere, through all the luminous day, brooding over the vapoury land, over the ghostly blue of the flood--a sense of Shinto. With my fancy full of the legends of the Kojiki, the rhythmic chant of the engines comes to my ears as the rhythm of a Shinto ritual mingled with the names of gods.
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It is with the delicious surprise of the first journey through Japanese streets-unable to make one's kuruma-runner understand anything but gestures, frantic gestures to roll on anywhere, everywhere, since all is unspeakably pleasurable and new-that one first receives the real sensation of being in the Orient, in this Far East so much read of, so long dreamed of, yet, as the eyes bear witness, heretofore all unknown. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Goddess of the Sun, Festival of the Dead, Tokudo Shonin, Judge of Souls, Senke Takanori, Emperor Sui-nin, Hall of Prayer, Holy of Holies, Physician of Souls, West Indies New!
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It is with the delicious surprise of the first journey through Japanese streets-unable to make one's kuruma-runner understand anything but gestures, frantic gestures to roll on anywhere, everywhere, since all is unspeakably pleasurable and new-that one first receives the real sensation of being in the Orient, in this Far East so much read of, so long dreamed of, yet, as the eyes bear witness, heretofore all unknown. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
one rin, great deity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Goddess of the Sun, Festival of the Dead, Tokudo Shonin, Judge of Souls, Senke Takanori, Emperor Sui-nin, Hall of Prayer, Holy of Holies, Physician of Souls, West Indies New!
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- Things Japanese (Kegan Paul Japan Library) by Basil Hall Chamberlain in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan, Vol. 1 by Lafcadio Hearn in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 1
- Tales of Old Japan: Folklore, Fairy Tales, Ghost Stories and Legends of the Samurai by A. B. Mitford in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Buddhist Catechism by Henry S. Olcott on page 10
- The Soul Of The Far East by Percival Lowell on page 162
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