Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1919 — Famous Japanese Shrine. [ARTICLE]

Famous Japanese Shrine.

Ill* golden temple, one of the most famous of Japanese shrines, is surrounded by a garden which has been growing for centuries. So artistically has bis work bfeen done that the artifices of the gardener are not very pronounced, with the. noticeable exception of the great old pine tree, which grows In a court surrounded on three sides by monastery buildings. It Is trained in the’ shape of a Junk, hull, mast and sail being reproduced. For centuries the patient priests have bent, pfungd. pried, tied and propped op the limbs and twigs of .this tree.