Word: yashiro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East, he had plenty to do in Japan. He wanted to visit Kobe to consecrate St. Michael's Cathedral and see various Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples. What did he most want to see in Japan? Replied Fisher: "What I most wanted to see was Bishop Michael Hinsuke Yashiro [Japan's Anglican Presiding Bishop]-and I am very happy to have seen...
...Thief . . . In Yashiro, Japan, the internal-revenue office warned tax delinquents to pay up or have their salaries attached, published a list of outstanding welchers, included the names of ten tax collectors...
...smelling huts, they see the morning sun dancing on the sea, and stately clouds crossing the horizon "like ancient gods." Teen-age Shinji is content to follow this age-old pattern of a life both dangerously and harmoniously close to nature. When he prays in the garden of the Yashiro shrine, he asks, "God, let the seas be calm, the fish plentiful, and ... in time let me become a fisherman among fishermen...
...rice husks, then commissioned artists to paint another scene on top. Experts could give no estimate of its value beyond saying that it was a priceless example of 10th century Chinese wall painting and one of the few available for study by Western scholars. Said Professor Yukio Yashiro, after a look at Missouri's 1,000-year-old goddess: "This is one of the greatest discoveries of our time in the field of oriental painting...