Word: shinto
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...confusion that identifies " 'the American way of life' as a religion, the national temple under whose broad roof various shrines -Protestant, Jewish, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox-may be permitted to worship so long as they acknowledge themselves to be sects or parties within the one state Shinto...
Married. Takako Suganomiya (meaning: noble, pure), Princess Suga, 21, jazz-loving daughter (youngest of five) of Japan's Emperor Hirohito; and Hisanaga Shimazu, 25, tall, thin, $50-a-month bank clerk; in a 20-minute Shinto ceremony in a Tokyo restaurant attended by Hirohito, Empress Nagako and Crown Prince Akihito, followed by a Western reception complete with cake and cutting...
...Ebisu-san is smiling again," say the busy businessmen of booming Osaka these days. Translation: "We never had it so good." Ebisu-san is the fat-faced Shinto god of wealth, and last week Osaka held its annual three-day festival in his honor, presented the god with the biggest cash offering in ten centuries. Priests in white kimonos and sky blue shirts, shrine virgins in billowing scarlet, shrine dancers in white and red, and musicians with flutes and harps kept things moving while nearly 2,000,000 of Osaka's 2,540,000 citizens flocked to Ebisu...
...contrast to such savage moments, the exhibition as a whole reflected the Oriental ideal of calm delight, nowhere better shown than in the 32½-in.-high wooden sculpture of Hachiman. the Shinto god of war, who was incorporated into the peaceful Buddhist pantheon. Unlike his Shinto predecessor, the Buddhist Hachiman as carved by Koshun in 1328 was a peaceful and humble priest. "Even if I should have to drink molten copper," he once exclaimed. "I would not accept offerings from those whose hearts are tainted!" Koshun's image of him is clearly an offering from an untainted heart...
...make the mistake of treating foreign staffers as poor cousins. Many of the same benefits that N.C.R.'s U.S. workers enjoy extend throughout the company, and Allyn pays special attention to the ways of each land. When N.C.R.'s plant near Yokohama was opened, it included a Shinto shrine for the workers, in the Japanese tradition, and Chairman Allyn placed an offering of leaves on the altar. To help teach U.S. customs and business practices, Allyn invites many foreign businessmen to be N.C.R.'s guests at the company's seminars at Dayton, this year expects...