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Updated: May 1, 2025
Six thousand boys and girls, massed in ranks about five hundred deep; six thousand pairs of arms rising and falling exactly together; six thousand pairs of sandalled feet advancing or retreating together, at the signal of the masters of gymnastics, directing all from the tops of various little wooden towers; six thousand voices chanting at once the 'one, two, three, of the dumb-bell drill: 'Ichi, ni, san, shi, go, roku, shichi, hachi.
"What!" said the daimio's followers, who were real men, and surrounding the badger, they beat him to death. The fox-cub, who was looking on from a hill near by, laughed in derision, and glad that treachery was punished, scampered away. Every child knows who the Shichi fuku Fin or seven Patrons of Happiness are.
Another still more striking saying ascribing knowledge to Heaven is the "Yoshin no Shichi," "the four knowings of Yoshin." This sage was a Chinaman of the second century A.D. Approached with a large bribe and urged to accept it with the assurance that no one would know it, he replied, "Heaven knows it; Earth knows it; you know it; and I know it. How say you that none will know it?"
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