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Chief Abbot Kocho Otani, who represents 32 million Japanese Buddhists, and his wife, younger sister of the Empress of Japan, visited Harvard and Radcliffe colleges yesterday during a tour of the United States sanctioned by General Douglas MacArthur, supreme Allied commander of Japan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jap Buddhist Abbot Inspects University | 10/26/1949 | See Source »

Married. Count Kocho Otani, 27, spiritual leader of Japan's 13,000,000 NishiHongwanji Buddhists; and Princess Yoshiko Tokudaiji, 19; by himself (no lesser churchman being deemed eligible); in Kyoto, Japan. Best man: Prince Fumimaro Konoe, president of the Japanese House of Peers. One hundred acolytes, 700 chanting priests, 20,000 communicants crowded the ceremony. At its conclusion the bride, wearing eleven kimonos, gave away 1,500,000 fans; the groom gave away 1,500,000 yen ($420,000). Wedding gifts: a castle from Nishi-Hongwanji followers, five kinds of fresh fish (harbingers of happiness) from Empress Nagako...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 3, 1937 | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

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