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Ashes of the dead are carried through the streets of Tokyo to the Yasukuni Shrine, where they will be sanctified. Some 150,000 sets of ashes have so far been deified at Yasukuni, which means in Japanese, "Shrine which guards the tranquility of the Empire"
Yonosuke Natori

Ashes of the dead are carried through the streets of Tokyo to the Yasukuni Shrine, where they will be sanctified. Some 150,000 sets of ashes have so far been deified at Yasukuni, which means in Japanese, "Shrine which guards the tranquility of the Empire"

July 10, 1939
Japan
Image: 5 9/16 x 8 3/8 in. (14.1 x 21.3 cm)
Photo-Gelatin silver
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The LIFE Magazine Collection, 2005
Accession No. 1409.2005