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 probable that strips of the cloth offered to the deities were hung from the branches. Thus, even after a shrine had been built to receive the divine insignia (the mirror, the sword, and the jewel), a bough of sakaki with white pendants (go-hei) continued to be included in the paraphernalia of the ceremony of worship.  —It might be supposed that many Emperors would have received this distinction. But among the hundred and twenty-eight sovereigns that have sat on the throne of Japan, two only—Ojin and Kwammu—are thus honoured. On the other hand, great subjects have been deified much more frequently: for example, Sugawara no Michizane (Temman), Kusunoki Masashige (Minatogawa), Tokugawa Iyeyasu (Tōsho), Hideyoshi the Tōiko (Toyokuni), etc.  —Daijin-gu (Ise); Tai-sha (Izumo); Hachiman-gu (Kyōtō); Temman-gu (Hakata); Inari (Kyōtō); Kasuga (Nara); Atago (Kyōtō); Kompira (Sanuki); Suiten-gu (Tōkyō), and Suwa (Shinano).  —It is not absolutely correct to speak of a Shintō minister as a "priest." He is called Shinkwan, which signifies rather a "Shintō official."  —Mr. Percival Lowell, in "Occult Japan," gives lengthy and picturesque accounts of these and other cognate performances. They are called Kami-waza or deeds of the deities.  —The supposed effect is that the germs of the caries are expelled from the patient's ear.  —Thus a woman speaks of "water" as o-hiya (the honourable cold thing), rather than as mizu, because the latter word implies separation. Again, the old word for "rice," shine, has been changed into yone, because the former signifies also "death;" and for the same reason "four persons" are alluded to as yottari, not as shinin.  —A fisherman who was transported to the submarine castle of the dragon king, where he lived unconscious of the flight of time. <section end="Note 62" /> <section begin="Note 63" />—A Chinese Merlin, who ate the sacred fruit of longevity. <section end="Note 63" />