Thanks, Masato. You wrote

210. "Kiyoki tokoro o tsukureyo to" -- "Build a Holy Place for Me" (CROSBY)
492. "Kami no megumi wa ito takashi" -- "Like Mount Hermon's Lofty Peak"(CROSBY)

What do these English words mean? Titles of the original tunes? First lines?

The Japanese lines are indeed the first lines of nos. 210 and 492. "Build a holy place for me" looks to me like an English translation of "Kiyoki tokoro o tsukureyo to", sure enough, but "Like Mount Hermon's lofty peak" looks like it's taken from the third and fourth lines ("herumon no yama ni mo masari") more than the first.

There are eight Crosby hymns in the 1954 Sanbika and one in the 1967 supplement (which is also a treasure trove of Negro Spirituals in Japanese; ahead of its time in this regard, by comparison with American hymnals of the period).

Would you by any chance be able to dig up for me an email address for the hymnal committee responsible for the Kyōdan's hymnals (I am assuming both the 1954 and the 1997 Sanbika are basically Kyōdan products)? I would like to correspond with them on a variety of topics (including this one; who knows, they may actually know who composed it, or at least know who told them it was by Crosby).

Japanese hymnals, unlike American ones but like British ones, tend to index Ms. Crosby under her married name, Van Alstyne. (An aside, for the benefit of anyone trying to follow in my footsteps ;-).)

Haruo