Japan: An Attempt at InterpretationHearn, Lafcadio
Religion
Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation
Hearn, Lafcadio
Japan -- Civilization
Heavenly sovereigns, worship of the, 108-109; maintained through
years of revolt, 279-280.
Heimin, "common folk", 247.
Hell, according to Buddhism, 195.
Hidetada, son of Iyeyasu, 321-322.
Hideyoshi, career of, 276-277; attitude of, toward Jesuits,
306-307.
Hinin, a wandering pariah, 98; "not-human-beings", 250.
Hirata, great Shinto commentator, 27, 369; quoted, 47, 49, 56,
111, 116, 117, 119, 120-121, 122, 134-135, 145, 161; banishment
and death of, 372.
History, scientific knowledge of Japanese, impossible, 1;
legendary, 259-260; beginning of authentic, 260.
Hitagaki, the "human hedge", 34.
Hitogata, "mankind-shapes", 147-148.
Hitotsubashi, Shogun, 374.
Hiyei-san, monastery buildings burnt at, 275.
Hizen, clan of, 372.
Hojo, supremacy of the, 268; defeat of and extinction, 270.
Home, gods of the, 129-130.
Honesty, Japanese, 13.
Hongwanji, Shin sect of, 275.
Horyfuji, the temple called, 200.
House, building of, a religious act, 125, 130-131; gods of the, 129.
Houses, size of, prescribed by law, 164, 165, 166; of prostitution,
enactment of Iyeyasu regarding, 347; operation of labour-unions
when building, 403-404.
Husband, seven terms for, 171.
Husbands, position of adopted, 64-65.
Huxley, T. H., quoted concerning industrial reform, 452-453.
"I", gradations of the pronoun. 171.
Ibuku Mogusa, extract from, 305.
Ihai, "soul-commemoration", Buddhist mortuary tablets, 42, 201.
Images, Buddhist, 459; setting up of, 200-201.
Imperial ancestors, worship of the, 108-109; duration of,
279-280.
Individual, obligations of the, under patriarchal system, 88-99;
relation of, to the Ujigami, 120-121; freedom of, did not
exist, 158, 253-254; modern recognition of, 376; now free in
theory, in practice like his forefathers, 384-387, 391-392;
Government official authority over the, 409-416.
Individualism, assumption that Christianity would produce, 471.
Industry, developed in Japan under Buddhist teachings, 188;
development of, under Iyeyasu, 279.
Industry, gods of, 124-125, 153-154.
Irregularity, the aesthetie value of, 8.
Ise, shrines of, 122.123-124; every Japanese expected to visit,
123-124; worship at shrines of, 138-139.
Ishijima, suicide of wife of, 290.
Isolation, causes for policy of, 329.
Ito, Marquis, policy of, 390.
Iyemochi, Shogun, 374.
Iyeyasu, Tokugawa, apotheosis of, 127; enactment of, concerning
rudeness, 175; powers of daimyo restricted by, 242; Will Adams
created a samurai by, 254; sketch of career of, 277-278; decree
of, concerning suicide, 285; decree concerning code of
vengeance, 293; persecution of Christians by, 307, 308, 320-321;
interviews with Will Adams, 314-315; castle of Osaka
stormed and burnt by, 322; Legacy of, 68, 319, 345-351, 360.
Izanagi, the legend concerning, 40, 112-117.
Izumo, farming forbidden to samurai in, 244-245.
Izumo temple, the, 122; worship at, 138, 139, 142-143.
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