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Firewalking is a common practice in India, in the South Sea Islands, in the Shinto temples of Japan. Explanations of how it is done differ widely. But the performance in Surrey made news on two continents because it was done under the eye of scientists who came with thermometers as well as skepticism...
...birth. Soon carpenters will whack together in the Fountain Garden the elaborate Maternity Pavilion which has to be built of spotless new materials every time the lean, bespectacled little Emperor's physicians decide to wind his plump and pretty Empress in a white silk maternity belt purified by Shinto priests...
Last week he moved out and called in Shinto priests to chase away any possible evil spirits with prayers and water. Just to be certain, he had plumbers overhaul the drains. The priests calculated May 20 the most auspicious day for him to move in again. On that day his wife ceremoniously carried a potted plant into the house and dauntless General Hayashi followed...
Bronze gongs throbbed softly and with stiff rustling of robes the Shinto priests bowed low to the ground, for in the confines of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Tsugu-no-Miya Akihito, Crown Prince of Japan, last week was worshipping his illustrious ancestors. Utterly oblivious to the solemnity of the occasion was Tsugu-no-Miya Akihito, for His Celestial Highness last week was just three months old, a little round buttonhead of a baby, swaddled and lying on a brocaded pillow in the arms of his nurse. In solemn procession, Prince, pillow and nurse went first to the Koreiden shrine...
When the sacred white silk maternity belt was reverently wound around the person of Her Imperial Majesty the Empress Nogako a month ago, all Japan renewed the nation's years of patriotic Shinto prayer for a boy at last-a new Son of Heaven. Auspiciously the Empress's labor grew most severe last week just as Japan's sun was about to rise and burst refulgent on the Imperial Maternity Pavilion, freshly built in the Fountain Garden of Tokyo's moat-encircled Chiyoda Palace. Minute by minute they approached-the Sun Goddess and the Imperial Child...