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Identifier: scienceofrailways11kirk (find matches)
Title: The science of railways
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Kirkman, Marshall Monroe, 1842-1921
Subjects: Railroads Transportation -- History
Publisher: New York, Chicago : World Railway Pub. Company
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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\ war junk of the olden time. The sail bears the emblem of the chief or lord. iilS CARRIAGE IN JAPAJf,
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The Japanese are a highly imaginative people and have their mytholog-ical heroes, just as the Greeks would have had, doubtless, to-day could theyhave maintained an uninterrupted life as the Japanese have been able to do.It does not require any stretch of imagination upon the part of the people ofJapan to believe that one of their gods is carried from place to place on theback of a crane. They have a legend that the founder of the ancient capitaland holy city of Nara visited the site, before locating, on the back of a deer,and, respecting this tradition, these animals are not molested by local resi-dents. The Japanese God of Age, shown above, is one of their seven Gods ofFortune, his especial gift being long life. He is conveyed over the world onthe back of a crane (a sacred bird in Japan), thought to live a thousand years.The Japanese account of the creation quite rivals the Grecian in beauty.According to it Izanagi and Izanami, the first man and vroman, stood togetheron a floating br

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