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For Japan is truly a kaleidoscope of lifestyles and images, local cultures and beliefs: the rice farmers in rural heartlands and the subway millions of teeming Tokyo; the Zen Buddhist monks and the fad-obsessed teenaged fashion victims; the solemn temple ceremony or the hellish din of the pachinko parlor; exquisite temple architecture or all-pervasive soulless concrete apartment buildings.
Then, in the sixth and seventh centuries, Irish-speaking monks, for whom the Latin of literature and Scripture was a foreign language, began inserting spaces, just to help tell all those unfamiliar words apart.
Indeed, had not his Latin been adopted by the scholastic monks of the day, little would have remained to show that he had ever been there in the first place.
The forest is home to more than 700 types of trees, and was once the preserve of Benedictine monks — women were not allowed to enter.
Four monasteries developed as a source of protection still remain, and each has a church, monks’ quarters and a sturdy high wall.