Word: hinoki
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...Japanese Admiralty received a news flash from Shanghai that a Chinese mob had "brutally beaten" two Japanese women on Yangtzepoo Road at 5:30 p. m. Out ripped Admiralty orders. By 6:30 p. m. the Japanese destroyers Hinoki and Momo were streaking for Shanghai, chief Chinese port. At dawn two more Japanese destroyers followed...
...Shinto priests went to the mountains, selected a grove of hinoki trees, a variety of cedar. The following spring lumbermen in spotless white jackets, chosen for their piety and good character, felled the trees, floated them down the river to Yamada. For nine years every step of the construction from the seasoning of the lumber, the hewing of the beams to the final sweeping of the completed temple followed the fixed unvarying ritual. Every workman, from the humblest coolie to the supervising priest, had to bathe and pray daily, wear a spotless white jacket and shirt each morning...
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