Each of the visiting Japanese warships has under its quarterdeck a shrine containing its own god, named after the ship (reports the Auckland “Star ). The shrines on the Idzumo and Yakumo are like miniature temples, although they differ in design from each other. On each ship every morning the whole company prays before the. shrine. A. visitor to the Idzumo noticed a small wooden box, which was empty. . When he made pretence to place a com in it his guide brushed his hand aside. no, no,” he said, “it is nothing material. It is something of the soul.”
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 261, 4 August 1928, Page 26
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