The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 40National Geographic Society, 1921 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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... mountain in Japan . On every hand its granite spires are streaked with snow at most seasons of the year . Photographs from Walter Weston MOUNTAIN PILGRIMS IN A JAPANESE ALPINE VALLEY These worshipers are bound for the shrine on the ...
... mountain in Japan . On every hand its granite spires are streaked with snow at most seasons of the year . Photographs from Walter Weston MOUNTAIN PILGRIMS IN A JAPANESE ALPINE VALLEY These worshipers are bound for the shrine on the ...
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... mountains in particular will help to illustrate their influence on the inhabitants . Through each of the chief islands of Japan there runs a solid backbone of mountains , which , taken together , con- stitute three great mountain ...
... mountains in particular will help to illustrate their influence on the inhabitants . Through each of the chief islands of Japan there runs a solid backbone of mountains , which , taken together , con- stitute three great mountain ...
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... mountain , lest the mountain spirits should in angry retaliation destroy their crops , or that they were absent , en- gaged in the rite of Amagoi , a service of supplication in time of drought . This service usually consisted of light ...
... mountain , lest the mountain spirits should in angry retaliation destroy their crops , or that they were absent , en- gaged in the rite of Amagoi , a service of supplication in time of drought . This service usually consisted of light ...
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