Word: kami
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...splendid palace on the peninsula of Yamato, the mighty Emperor Jimmu celebrated his various successful aggressions by offering up sacrifices to Ama-terasu-Ö-mi-Kami, sometimes known as the Sun Goddess, his great-great-grandmother. Thus was founded (so Japanese chroniclers say) the Empire of Japan...
...have been doing likewise. "The god we speak of here has a different meaning from the absolute God," the bishop quoted from a Ministry of Education pronouncement on the Shinto divinity Amaterasu Omikami. Furthermore, to make the distinction clearer, the new church is changing the name of God from Kami (the word for the Shinto divinities which early Christian missionaries adopted) to the honorific Kamisama, Ainokami (God of Love) and Shu (Lord...
Similarly, if TIME insists that the Japanese call their mountain "Mr. Fuji" [TIME, Aug. 21], it might as well say that the Japanese call "God" "paper" and "paper" "God" simply because the two words are homonyms (along with the word for hair-all being transliterated as kami...
...Japan the Son of Heaven, last of 124 rulers in unbroken descent from the Son Goddess Amaterasu-O-Mi-Kami, is never cartooned. The very notion freezes pious Japanese to the marrow and members of the Cabinet last week wailed: "This is terrible! Terrible!" Tension was heightened because His Majesty had been cartooned in the lowly and menial attitude of a huckster drawing through the streets a cart on which lay a rolled-up paper supposed to be the Nobel Peace Prize. What Vanity Fair's cartoonist might be getting at was obscure to Japanese, but he had dared...
...Russian battleship Sinkavitsky, F. H. Whitney '06 Higginson Wigglesworth, penniless college graduate seeking a position, G. L. Yocum '07 Franklin Edison Marconi Bluebell, a Yankee wireless telegraph and telephone solicitor, F. H. Van Orman '08 Sigaret, hotel maid, afterwards maid-in-waiting to May Lifter, Morgan Jopling '06 Nami Kami, a geisha girl, H. L. Murphy '08 Adolph Haschaus, a hotel manager, F. W. Olmsted '08 Tu Lung, a Chinese servant, H. L. Olmsted '08 Messenger Boy, P. P. Marion...