Word: hayama
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Hundreds of men, women, children appeared before the imperial seaside villa at Hayama, stripped and vigorously purified themselves by pouring buckets of cold water over one another and then standing motionless in the chill sea breeze until...
...Hayama the black chariot of Death waited last week to speed heavenward the Son of Heaven, Yoshihito, the 123d Emperor of Japan...
...long illness of His Majesty recently aggravated (TIME, Sept. 27), had reached a crisis. Sympathetic, troubled, alarmed, the geisha girls of Hayama sensed the ghostly presence of the Emperor's imperial ancestors who gathered at his bedside and impalpably permeated Hayama. Pious, respectful, the geisha, passed an entire week in seemly inactivity, without music...
...Imperial Majesty, the Emperor Yoshihito Haru-no-miya of Japan, 47, father of four of the world's most athletically potent princes (see above), was reported last week to have suffered two more fainting spells at the imperial seaside villa near Hayama...