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Show A Chance to Buy a Pagoda. In the year 770 A. D. the Emperor Koken caused a million pagodas to be made. They were little objects of wood, only four and a halt Inches high. Into each was Inserted a tiny scroll with a verse of the Sutras Inscribed In-scribed thereon, and the whole number num-ber were then handed over to' the temple Itoryujl at Nara. In the course ot centuries these relics gradually grad-ually became dispersed or were destroyed de-stroyed by fire, until only 3,000 remained, re-mained, and the ancient temple, being be-ing now In financial straits, offers one of these pagodas with Its lnclosure to any person sufficiently charitable to subscribe 36 yen. Japan Weekly Mall. |