The Foundations of Japan

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There issomething haunting in the strange little refrain, though it isdifficult to hum or whistle it. Perhaps the whole festival is toointimately racial to be fully understood by a stranger. By the end ofthe festival, on the night of merrymaking in honour of the villageguardian spirit, things were livelier. Some of the lads had evidentlyhad _saké_ and even the girls had lost their demureness.
[Illustration: MOTHER AND CHILD] After the Buddhist _Bon_ season was over it was the turn of Shinto, an
...d the village children were paraded before the shrine. A number ofShinto priests in the neighbourhood took a leading part in making thecustomary offerings and the local priest read a longish address to theguardian spirit of the village. Respectful correctness rather thandevoutness is the phrase which one would ordinarily be disposed toapply to the ceremonies at a Shinto shrine, but the local priest wasreverential. The ceremonies of the day evidently meant a great deal tohim. The children paid a well-drilled attention.

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