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Takahatafudo Temple, near Tokyo. Buddhist priests walking in procession at the chigo gyoretsu, or parade of little girls.

"Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare,
Since, seldom coming, in the long year set,
Like stones of worth they thinly placed are,
Or captain jewels in the carcanet."
(Shakespeare)