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Rice is the staple food of the Japanese; and no other food-stuff stands so high in popular esteem, or has a tutelary deity of its own. This rice-god has more shrines than any other deity, for he is worshipped everywhere, in town and village, and often a small shrine, no bigger than a hut, peeps amid a lonely cluster of trees surrounded on all sides by rice-paddies, its latticed door covered from top to bottom with the ex-votos of the simple peasant folk.

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Home Life in Tokyo
Author: Jukichi Inouye
Published: 1910
Available from gutenberg.org

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Sunday 25 July 2021

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Century:19th, Century:20th , Place:Japan, Religion, Trees

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