HIGH PRIEST AS PRIVATE
Count Kosho Otani, 27-year-old sup^ reme pontiff of a Japanese religious sect with 4,000,000 followers, completed his military training recently''as a private in the Emperor's army. Then he went to the Imperial Palace to pay his homage to the Emperor personally. "The toil I underwent,'-' said the Count, who had been assigned as chauffeur for a member of a high noble family, "showed me how to face life naked." The Honganji Religious Council, the Buddhist sect of which 'the aristo.cratic ex-private is the leader, voted him a wedding gift of 500,000 yen and a special mansion in the famed temple preserves at Kyoto. He is soon to marry Miss Yoshiko Tokudaiji, granddaughter of the late Prince Kinihiro Tokudaiji.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 56, 8 March 1937, Page 17
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122HIGH PRIEST AS PRIVATE Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 56, 8 March 1937, Page 17
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