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So through blackness to the Meido the white Shapes flit-the eternal procession of Souls in painted Buddhist dreams of the Underworld. My friend who writes for the San-in Shimbun, which to-morrow will print the whole sad story, tells me that compassionate folk have already decked the new-made graves with flowers and with sprays of shikimi.
The other a sort of tail-piece represented a writing- stand, a dying lamp, an open letter, incense burning in a cup, and a vase containing shikimi, that sacred plant used in the Buddhist ceremony of making offerings to the dead. The queer cursive text, looking like shorthand written perpendicularly, yielded to translation only lines like these:
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