"One-year" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Anciently, in the case of a common misfortune, the representative was put to death. In the little town of Mionoseki, where I first learned of this custom, the communal representative is called ichi-nen-gannushi ("one-year god-master"); and his full term of vicarious atonement is twelve months. I was told that elders are usually appointed for this duty,—young men very seldom. In ancient times such a communal representative was called by a name signifying "abstainer." References to the custom have been ...
— Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation • Lafcadio Hearn
... AZALI claimed a one-year term at the time of the coup; but elections, promised for spring 2000, ...
— The 2001 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... the exhibition of jackasses, of two-year and one-year, and for foals, and jennies also; this sight was to me one of peculiar interest. Accustomed as we are in England to value a jackass at thirty shillings, we look down upon them with contempt; but here the case is reversed: ...
— Diary in America, Series One • Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat) |
