Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1896 — The Mirror. [ARTICLE]

The Mirror.

The mirror ranks far higher in Japan than our notions of a looking-glass would allow us to Imagine, and takes the place of the cross in Catholic countries. The “two great divine palaces” at Ise, containing the yata no kagami, the first made mirror, have, in the eyes of the Japanese, the same Importance as has the Holy Sepulchre for the Greeks and Armenians, and Mecca for the Mohammedans.