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...social pressure. The Imperial sumptuary laws forbade merchants and samurai to wear excessively rich garments, so male vanity expressed itself in three special kinds of objects: inros, the tiny compartmented cases for carrying seals, or later medicine; netsukes, the carved toggles that fastened the inros to one's sash; and tsubas, or sword guards. The amount of craft lavished on these small things almost surpasses belief. So, often, does their sculptural quality: witness Issan's tiny, writhing red dragon netsuke. To complete his inro bearing the motif of a Chinese ship, Ritsuo (1663-1747) had to apply some...
...scene was a baptism in the devoutly Catholic Brittany town of Morlaix: proud parents, thirty beaming friends, godparents holding the infant girl. But why was everybody gathered at the city hall instead of the local church? Why was the deputy mayor, in his tricolor sash, presiding instead of a priest with his stole? The ceremony was in fact a "republican baptism." Instead of Father, Son and Holy Ghost, the baby was christened in the spirit of liberty, equality and fraternity...
...from a good job: in Ulster, Catholic unemployment is as much as twice the province's average. The persuasive power in Ulster was not so much the government as the Union of Orange Lodges (200,000 members). To celebrate King Billy's Day, Protestants wearing the Orange sash and bearing aloft portraits of William of Orange would parade through or near Catholic areas in an arrogant display of religious and political superiority...
...actual coronation occurred at the moment when South Africa's Minister of Bantu Administration, Michiel Botha, presented letters of appointment to Prince Zwelithini, whose father, Chief Cyprian, died 18 months ago. Standing stiffly in a plain black suit with a leopard-skin sash draped incongruously across it, the Prince wept with emotion. Then the crowd roared a traditional tribute: "Bay-ete wenawendhlovu [Hail, noble elephant]," and Zwelithini took his place on a throne of scented tamboetie wood with arm rests carved in the shape of lions...
...witness was Kenneth Jordaan, one of the dean's altar servers and confidants. Jordaan said that ffrench-Beytagh had egged him into joining the security police to keep tabs on government tactics. The prosecution maintained that the dean had incited Jordaan to violence and had told the Black Sash, a liberal women's group, that bloody revolution is justified under certain circumstances. Taking the stand in his own defense, ffrench-Beytagh said that, far from advocating violence, he had warned that the present racial system would result in violence if it were not changed. Apartheid, he insisted...