shikimi

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The other -- a sort of tail-piece -- represented a writing - stand, a dying lamp, an open letter, incense burning in a cup, and a vase containing shikimi, -- that sacred plant used in the

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  • The other -- a sort of tail-piece -- represented a writing - stand, a dying lamp, an open letter, incense burning in a cup, and a vase containing shikimi, -- that sacred plant used in the —  Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints
  • Shrines and altars are likewise decorated with beautiful embellishments of coloured paper, and with flowers and sprigs of certain hallowed plants -- always real lotus-flowers when obtainable, otherwise lotus - flowers of paper, and fresh branches of shikimi (anise) and of misohagi —  Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series
  • My friend who writes for the San-in Shimbun, which to-morrow will print the whole sad story, tells me that compassionate folk have already decked the new-made graves with flowers and with sprays of shikimi. —  Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series
 

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