Japan: An Attempt at InterpretationHearn, Lafcadio
Religion
Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation
Hearn, Lafcadio
Japan -- Civilization
Buddhism, Japanese name for (Butsudo), 21; mortuary tablets of,
42-43, 201; the dead according to, and Shinto, 47-48; entry of,
into Japan, 183-184; disestablishment of (1871), 107-109; charm
of, to Western thinkers, 209-210; summary of teachings of,
under Emperor Temmu, 239; obstacles to establishment of
religious hierarchy by, 251; military development of, 269-270;
violent end to militant, 275-276; jesuitism mistaken for a new
kind of, 332-334; no essential of Shinto weakened by, 379-380.
Buke, the military class, 241.
Butsudan, household-shrine, 42.
Butsudo, "The Way of the Buddha", 21.
Capital, danger to Japan from foreign, 465-466, 473.
Carpenters, religious rites preformed by, 125; organizations of,
403-404.
Castes, division of society into, 236.
Cauldron and saucepan, god of the, 129.
Celibacy, forbidden by early religion, 58; condemned by code of
Iyeyasu, 349.
Charms, to protect houses, 147 n.
Chastisement, punishment by, 95-96, 421.
Chiara, Giuseppe, 327 n.
Chieftainship, hereditary, 235.
China, date of introduction of spirit-tablet from, 24; religion
of filial piety in, 49-50; belief as to the Demon-Gate imported
from, 130; penal codes imported from, 176; arts and learning
of, taught by Buddhism, 201; civilization of, brought to Japan
by Buddhism, 203; harakiri, perhaps introduced from, 286;
Jesuit policy in, 331; cause for hatred of Western religion in,
474; integrity of, depends on mission-policy, 479-480.
Chori, pariahs, 247-250.
Chosku, clan of, 367, 368, 372, 374.
"Chronicles of Nihon", see Nihongi.
Christianity, assumption that individualism would be produced by,
471; obstacles to, presented by religion of ancestor-worship,
479-481. See Jesuits and Missions.
Chi-U, the condition of, 191 n.
Circle of Perpetual Hunger for wicked ghosts, 191.
Clan, cult of the, 81-83.
Clans, number of, in ancient Japan, 83; three great classes of,
235-236; early society an aggregation of, 236-237, 252-253;
wars between the military, for supremacy, 267 ff.; misery one
result of break-up of, 447-449.
Cleanliness exacted by Shinto, 145-146.
Coffins, size regulated by law, 179.
Colour-prints, production of, 357.
Commerce, contempt for, 246; Portuguese, a help to Jesuit
missionary work, 334-335; rise to power, 446; dangers resulting
from the rise of, 447-452.
Communism not a modern growth, 255.
Competition, undesirability of, 414-416; Government aid to
national industrial, 451-452.
Concubines, under patriarchal system, 58, 68-69, 74; remarks of
Iyeyasu regarding, 68, 348.
Confucianism, influence of, in Japan, 187-188, 292 ff.
Conscience, doctrine of, admitted by Buddhism, 196.
Coulanges, Fustel de, 52, 264, 449; quoted, 27, 67.
Courtesy, legal regulation of, 173-176.
Craft-gods, 124, 153-154.
Crafts, effect of Buddhism on, 188; guilds connected with, 246,
252, 402-405.
Crucifixion of Christians at Nagasaki, 307.
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