Note 368 — Chapter XV · TAOISM, LOCAL DEITIES, TREE-WORSHIP
Reading edition
"Trees of great size and age are worshipped in almost every village in Japan. They are girt with honorary cinctures of straw-rope and have tiny shrines erected before them."—Dr. Aston's Shinto, p. 45. See also W. W. Skeat's Malay Magic, p. 67.