Word: miko
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WACs, then a demoktirasi-style Japanese girl with knapsack and climbing boots. The beleaguered priests enlisted villagers to turn back any woman they found approaching the mountain. They rebuilt the trail to the top, making it difficult even for experienced climbers. But then came the fatal proclamation of the miko in Nara prefecture...
...miko is a kind of medium and rural sorceress to whom people come for advice on marriage and business. This particular miko had a large following of women in what the Japanese politely call "the water trades"-prostitutes, bar hostesses, geishas. The miko told them to worship the Eight Dragon God at the Ryusenji Temple. That tore it. Last week at Ryusenji, 200 dignitaries, headed by the Governor of Nara, chanted sutras and presented altar lilies to the brand-new vermilion temple, which was being dedicated to replace the old one, burned down in 1946. And 500 women arrived...