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...they begged alms last week in the Japanese city of Kobe, Zen Buddhist monks from the great temple of Shofukuji (Good Omen) met an unusual reception. Instead of showing reverence, people cracked seemingly typical Zen koans (problem riddles). "You look like the one who was admiring nude pictures," giggled one housewife, slamming the door in a novice priest's face. Snapped another tart-tongued woman: "Wash out your mind before I fill your bowl...
This month Photographer Tsuchiya published his pictures. Samples: loinclothed priests playing mah-jongg instead of sitting in immobile meditation, a priest drinking with a bar hostess, two novices staggering along a Kobe street late at night with a barmaid between them. Tsuchiya quoted one priest as saying: "By listening to good music and gazing on ikibosatu [the living Buddha], I feel I can understand the teachings." This wisdom was Tsuchiya's caption for a photograph of the same priest happily gaping at pictures of virtually naked women...
...Kobe, Japan...
...local cattle-slaughtering techniques on remote farms, where the gentle beasts, with tender humaneness, are made drunk on a bucketful of shochu-crude native booze-before they are led, staggering, carefree and mooing gratefully in a what-the-hell mood, to the poleax. Gourmets attribute the superior quality of Kobe beef to this alcoholic anesthesia as much as to the sensitive Japanese habit of massaging the cattle regularly once a week, thereby marbling the fat through the steak...
...week's end Sukarno had begun to wear a harried look, announced that he would leave for Djakarta earlier than he had expected-but only because his wife is expecting a baby. Then he went off to a luncheon party at the Indonesian consulate in Kobe, where he led his guests in singing a ballad called When We Were Young and Gay. His press officer explained: "It's his favorite song...