Covering
Japan: Nagasaki Journal |
The Students
The Classes
| Bruce Gerstman |
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Place
for Prayer Two hundred steps up a steep mountainside dotted with apartment buildings, tangled telephone wires and vending machines, the 377-year-old Suwa Shrine stands ready to receive the faithful. They come daily – in work suits, in sweatshirts, in ceremonial robes and kimonos. To Shinto priests waving wands of dangling paper they pray: for health, good grades – and to keep their cars out of accidents. |