Preachers, Buddhist, 168 Predominant stock of Japanese, 87ff., 93 Prefectures, 380 Prehistoric, 50ff. Pre-Meidji regime, 356 Prerogative, imperial, 307 Preservation, 270 Priests, Buddhist, 208, 326 Primogeniture, 92, 202, 337, 347 Printing, 231ff. Privilege, 343 Proletariat, 245 Proteges, 214, 217 Proto-historic, 50 Provinces, 81, 90, 115 Provincial governors, 114, 115, 180 Prussia, 275, 329 Publication, 323 Public land, 141ff. Publishers, 325 Purchase-system, 345 Q Quattrocento, 261, 285 R Race, 1, 21, 27, 75ff., 81 Rainy season, 24 Ransoms, 286 Rationalism, 352, 366 Reading circle, 324 Realistic, 248 Recitation, 162 Red tape, 272 Reformation, 246, 285, 328 Reformed Church, 350 Reforms, 138 Regency, 148, 306, 309 Religion, 117, 168ff. Religious community, 172 Religious movements, 18 Religious pictures, 246 Renaissance, 236, 251, 261, 285ff., 328 Renga, 210, 237 Representative government, 391 Reprinting of books, 319ff. Restoration of Bourbons, 355 Restoration of Meidji, 283, 355 Restoration of Stuarts, 355 Retainers, 183, 188, 197, 199ff., 202, 205, 213ff., 233, 294ff., 301 Revenue, 143 Rhetoric, 331 Rhine, 68 Rice, 41ff., 116, 297ff. Richu, Emperor, 57 Rigorism, 366f. Rikuchu province, 147 Rochu, 294 Rococo, 285 Roman Empire, 125 Roses, War of, 206 Rousseau, 388 Rowing, 133 Rumination, 9 Russians, 370 Russo-Japanese War, 393ff. S Sado, island and province, 305 Saga, Emperor, 250 Saghalien, 23, 27 Sakai, city, 223, 225, 230, 233ff., 243, 277, 305, 332ff. Sakanouye-no-Tamuramaro, 147 Sake, 244 Salic law, 202 Samurai, 288, 295, 301ff., 312ff., 318, 327ff., 335, 339ff., 380, 383, 385, 387, 389 Sanetomo, Minamoto, 226 San-kuo-chi, 59ff., 71, 84, 99 Satsuma, province, 23, 33, 72, 126, 238, 303, 376, 386 Schools, 358 Scipios, 154 Scotland, 69 Screens, 250. _See_ Byobu Scribes, 57, 61f., 82 Scroll-paintings, 165, 246, 249 Sculptures, 130, 136, 164ff., 384 Seasonal changes, 24ff. Secretaries, 62 Seigneur, 81ff., 87 Sei-shonagon, 152 Sekigahara, 293, 309, 322 Semi-independent lords, 11 Sen-no-Rikqu, 244 Sentimentalism, 248 Seppuku, 287ff. Sesshu, 249 Settsu, province, 114, 147 Seventeen Articles, 109 Shamisen, 162 Shiba, family, 268 Shi-chi, 364 Shikoku, island, 33, 240 Shimabara, 313 Shimatsu, family, 303 Shimonoseki, 161, 230ff., 393 Shinano, province, 67, 305 Shingon, Buddhist sect, 275 Shinran, priest, 189