Front:
Japanese Tenple
with Piiests, a
85
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85. JAPANESE TEMPLE WITH PRIESTS.-
Japanese temples are of
sizes.
idols, most of which
out of solid blocks of wood and heavily gilded.
They are about three feet high and some possess
many arms and hands,
plenty.
continually writing on slips of paper the prayers
of the worshipers who request that these peti-
tions be
various shapes and
It is said one of them contains 3,000
carved
PosiGrd
rude images
PLACE
STAMP HERE
are
DOMESTIC
ONE CENT
symbols of power and
In many of these temples priests are
FOREIGN
TWO CENTS
pinned or pasted up in the sanctuary
FOR ADDRESS ONLY