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National Geographic : 1977 Dec
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A love affair with his island home is daily renewed for Junji Fukuzawa, sole inhabitant of tiny Kashiwa Ji ma, as he eats an early breakfast (below). Isolation suits him well, and he pauses to breathe in a peace (right) shared only with birds and an occasional fisherman. The quiet tempo of his life is altered but once a year, when he opens his house to visitors and dons festival robes in his role as a Shinto priest (bottom). For two days he recites prayers and propitiates the Shinto spirits on be half of thousands who flock to Ka shiwa Jima's shrines. At the close of the festival, a procession of boats carries a miniature shrine around the island. The vessels then return to the dock for the last of the pil grims before leaving the priest once again alone on his shore. National Geographic,December 1977 860
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