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Show SACRED SHRINE OF JAPAN. I Where Devotees Pray for 8afety 0 I Absent Ones. BJ A romantic custom of the Japancsa I is described in tho "Kokoro" of I af- BJ. cadio Hoarn. it is nnrratod that L thoso who nro anxious for tho safety "tf of nbsont ones repair to tho mountain ''' of Dakcyama to perform a singular rlto. Thoro Is a shrine nt tho sum- I mlt to commomorato n princess of an tlquity who dally watched hopelessly I until sho pined and died, when hei I body was changed Into stone. On fl who looks with tho eyes of n bellovoi fl still sees tho princess on Mount Da. fl Uoyama in tho shapo of a porpendlcu- fl lar rock. Boforo her shrine art fl heaps of pobblos nnd thoso who ascend fl to pray for tho safo homo-coming of ono they lovo tako a pebblo away with fl thom as a talisman. And when at fl last reunited with tho beloved another fl pllgrlmago Is mado to tho shrlno on Dakoyaraa to roplnco tho pebble, with I a handful of others, In devotional I gratitude |