A Shinto archpriest, bearded and stately, heralded the Tenno's death to his ancestors at Tokyo.
Emperor Hirohito, the living god and archpriest of Shinto, will soon embrace Christianity.
It was an expensive business, for even though he was rich by the standards of Roghudi, Mayor Nucera, a landholder and the nephew of the local archpriest, could not afford those .