FACE AGAIN
A shrine in a park at Kyoto, the biggest and most elaborate we have seen. We photograph it from the front and from the side, walk round it, peer irreverently into the praying-place, and begin to look for the priest. Then we remember that Shinto is a forbidden religion and start photographing some ragamuffins who have been following us hopefully round the grounds. One of us has a few pennies and another two or three pieces of gum, and each lad as we give him his portion bows and says O.K. At this point two men draw near, one in his fifties who may be a professor or a doctor, the other an old man poorly clad. Neither looks at us. They walk slowly past, mount the steps, uncover, bow, throw some coins into the prayingbox, clap their hands, lower their heads for perhaps two minutes, clap again, ‘bow again, and withdraw. So, with some embarrassment, do we.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 354, 5 April 1946, Page 8
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160FACE AGAIN New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 354, 5 April 1946, Page 8
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