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Shimenawa or shimekazari the straw ropes which have been sacred symbols of Shinto from the mythical age are festooned along the faades of the dwellings, and so inter-joined that you see to right or left what seems but a single mile-long shimenawa, with its straw pendents and white fluttering paper gohei, extending along either side of the street as far as the eye can reach.
As the sun's yellow rim comes into sight, fine thin lines of warmer tone spectral violets and opalines-shoot across the flood, treetops take tender fire, and the unpainted faades of high edifices across the water change their wood-colour to vapoury gold through the delicious haze.
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