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Updated: May 4, 2025

"As the great offerings set up for the Youth-god, I set up various sorts of offerings: for Clothes, bright cloth, glittering cloth, soft cloth, and coarse cloth, and the five kinds of things, a mantlet, a spear, a horse furnished with a saddle; for the Maiden-god I set up various sorts of offerings providing Clothes, a golden thread-box, a golden tatari, a golden skein-holder, bright cloth, glittering cloth, soft cloth, and coarse cloth, and the five kinds of things, a horse furnished with a saddle; as to Liquor, I raise high the beer-jars, fill and range-in-a-row the bellies of the beer-jars; soft grain and coarse grain; as to things which dwell in the hills, things soft of hair and things coarse of hair; as to things which grow in the great field plain, sweet herbs and bitter herbs; as to things which dwell in the blue sea-plain, things broad of fin and things narrow of fin down to the weeds of the offing and weeds of the shore.

Lafcadio Hearn - Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation