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Wooden prayers

Meiji Jingu
Tokyo
October 23, 2004

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At this shrine to the Meiji emperor and empress, visitors can offer 500 yen for a wooden placard, on which they can write their hopes and wishes. Hundreds hung beneath this tree, in Japanese, English, German, and French -- including my favorite, a birthday wish for an Indian or Arabian horse.