Japan: An Attempt at InterpretationHearn, Lafcadio
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Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation
Hearn, Lafcadio
Japan -- Civilization
Festivals of the Ujigami, 84, 137, 140-142; laws as to presents
at boys', 165: Shin-Sho-Sai, 245; temple, 84, 459.
Feudalism, Japanese so-called, 230-238, 253.
Flower-arrangement, art of, 358-359.
Flower-daughter, the, 64.
Food, the use by ghosts of, 29-30; offerings of, to the dead, 29-30,
45; offerings to the gods, 53 n., 138, 140, 141; for the dead
might not be eaten by children, 51 n.: laws as to, at weddings
and funerals, 165; offerings of, to Pretas, 191; decree
forbidding use of flesh for, 196; Buddhist offerings of, 201;
recent increase in price of, 412 n.
"Forty-seven Ronin", story of the, 295-296: tombs of the, 297 n.
Four Deva Kings, the, 260; temple of, 200.
Franciscans in Japan, 307 ff.
Freedmen, class of, 233, 234-235.
Freemasonry in Japan, 472 n.
Fujiwara clan, rise of the, 260-261; duration of rule of, 260,
266, 281; final degeneration of, 266-267.
Funeral-rites, ancient, 34-46.
Funerals, laws as to food at, 165; laws governing. 179.
Gardening, first development of, under Buddhism, 188; modern, 404.
Gardens, holiness of, 154.
Ghost-house, 36, 56; transformation of, into Shinto temples, 62.
Ghosts, ancestor-worship coeval with belief in, 24; identified in
early beliefs with gods, 25, 46-48, 55.
Ghost-ships, Buddhist, 202.
Girl-priestesses in Shinto temples, 142-143.
Girls in service, position of, 407-409.
Go, definition of, 64 n.
Goblins, admitted to exist by Buddhism, 190-191.
Go-Daigo, Mikado, revolt of, against Hojo, 270; later
vicissitudes of, 270-271.
Gods, no early difference between ghosts and, 25, 55; development
of distinction, between greater and lesser, 25-26; early
conceptions of, compared with Greek and Roman, 27-28: the dead
and, 46-48; the minor, 108; all Japanese considered as, in one
sense, 118: of crookedness, 118-119; of crafts and callings,
118-119; number of Shinto, worshipped, 127-128; of the house,
130-131; the great number of, 133-134; of industry, 153-154;
identity of Shinto and Buddhist evil, 190-191.
God-shelves, 124; daily prayers before, 134-136; religious charms
on, 147 n.
Go-Kameyama, Emperor, 272.
Go-Komatsu, Emperor, 272.
Goshi yeomanry, 243.
Go-Toba, Emperor, works at sword. making, 245.
Go-Tsuchi-mikado, Emperor, 273.
Government, identity of, with religion, 90-91.
Graves, legal dimensions of, 179; white lanterns at, 202.
Greeks, parallels drawn between Japanese and, 15-16, 27-28, 34,
36, 57, 59, 65, 67, 70, 78, 89, 99, 148, 169, 202 n., 229, 264,
443-444, 446.
Guilds, 246, 252; religious organization of, 124-125; modern
workings of, 402-403.
Hachiman, the war god, 83; acknowledgment of, in Buddhism, 190.
Hades, development of belief in, 25.
Hair, class indicated by method of wearing, 233.
Harakiri, custom of, 285-286; instance of, in Russian war, 464.
Harmony, Japanese sense of, in tints and colors. 8.
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