The Fire of Rice Sheaves
When the 1854 tsunami, In Hiro (now Hirogawa), Goryo Hamaguchi set fires using rice straw to help guide villagers to safety. This story was turned into "A living god" by the Greek-born writer Lafcadio Hearn. Hamaguchi saved the lives of many of his fellow villagers of Hiro, Kii Province (current Hirogawa, Wakayama), when a massive tsunami struck the Kii Peninsula in 1854. He set fire to stacks of rice sheaves as landmarks to guide villagers to safety. Lafcadio Hearn wrote a story about him in "Gleanings in Buddha-Fields: Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East" (1897), called "Inamura no Hi: The burning rice fields". 
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Lafcadio Hearn
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Kii Peninsula
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