Photograph by Kiyoshi Sakamoto 



A PRIEST-DOCTOR OF OLD JAPAN 

 Living in isolated huts " beyond the influences of the miserable world," these religious mendicants, who 

 are vegetarians and celibates, come to town and make their way from gate to gate, praying in sing-song fashion 

 for gifts of money or rice in exchange for blessings for the sick. 



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