Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1915-11-12

better site and finally came to place
on the upper stream Of the Isuzu in
the province of lse where she erected
a new shrine and dedicated the sacred
treasures therein. This was in the
year 4 B. c. The divinen mirror re-
mains to this day at the same place
deposited in a shrine which is an ak.
act replica Of the first built more
than nineteen centuries ago. The pre-
sent shrine Of lse stands now just as
it did before the dawn of the Christian
era. Every detail of the original has
been faithfully copied so as to pre-
serve all the simplicity of the archi-
lecture of the age in which it was
first erected. The shrine is of plain
wood and is rooted with thatch with
out any outward adornment of color
or of carving. Once in everN twenty
years a ne wbuilding is erected to re-
place the old.
Tradition holds also that about 100
years after the dedication of tho mir.
ror and sword at Ise, the sword was
given to the son of Emperor Keiko
.
petition TO the unknown and savage
eastern regian. Armed with his palla-
I dium the imperial son subdued and
| pacihed all the native barbarians. On
one occasion when the barbarians i'm
( perilled him with a forest fire the
Prince, drawing his sword, cut a path
way out of danger. The blade of the
sacred sword was so tempered that
oven flames were turned in the direc-
/ tion of the barbarians who were awed
and subdued From that time, the
divine sword was also known as
Sword of the Grass Mower
/ After a successful campaign in the
eastern provinces the prince retraced
/ his steps homeward and leaving the
/ divine Sword Of the Grass Mower
! at Atsuta in the r--ince of Dwarf
he climbed up NJ "a buh in Omi,
to subdue the rebels who dwelt on the
mountain. There the imperial prince
was taken i'll and died at Nobono in
/ the province of Ise, in the year 113
I A. d. After his death a shrine was
4 erected at Atsuta in Dwarf, for the
alteration of the sword which was
left there by the brave prince. The
shrine at Atsuta, situated a few miles
from the city of Nagoya, remains to
f the present day as it was eighteen
hundred years ago.
The veneration of the shrine of the
sun Goddess is the essence Of the
traditional Japanese national faith.
Representative Japanese explain this
national attitude in this way to the
correspondent of The Associated
Press: Whatever may be the indi-
vidual religious belief of the people of
Iapan-whether they be Shintoist,
Buddhist Of Christian-no Japanese
can be disassociated from veneration
Of the spirit of Amaterasu Omikami,
the Sun Goddess. who is not only the
ancestress of the imperial family but
Z he great protecting mother Of the en-
ire Japanese race. The so-called
modern" Japanese became careless in
ais religious beliefs and in his observ-
lnce thereof, but he never forgets his
aspect to the Sun Goddess which is
nborn and which constitutes the
great spiritual force uniting the whole
people. II he does not accept the Sun
GODDESS literally he at least holds her
n reverence as a symbol.
This national reverence had a terri
| lle exemplidcation in 1889 on the
cry day that Emperor Mutsuhito pro
| uulgated the constitution. Niscount
,rinori Mort, former minister to the
nited States, was stabbed to death
! ~ a student because of the charge
hat while visiting the shrine of the
'un Goddess he had shown lack OF
aspect by lifting one of the curtains
18th his walking stick. The deed was
leld to be "sacreligious and unpardOn
Bile because it menaced the sacred
oundation and divinity of the imperia
'apanese house" To this day the as
assin's grave is decorated by admir-
ng zealots. The act attributed tC
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