Massacres, of priests by Nobunaga, 251; caused by Christian attacks on domestic faiths, 475, 479. Matsuri-goto, "matters of worship", 32. Matsuri, temple-festivals, 84. Meat, forbidden for food, 196-197; forbidden as offerings by Buddhism, 201. Merchants, place of, in social ranking, 246; modern rise of, to power, 446. Metempsychosis, no doctrine of, in Shinto, 55 ff., 189-190. Mikado, God of the Living, 122-125; usurpation of powers of, 260-266. Miko, girl-priestesses, 142-143. Mimidzuka, "Ear-monument", 277. Minamoto, regency of the, 267-268. Mionoseki, Eta settlement at, 249. Miracle-plays performed by Jesuits, 334. Missions, Christian, causes of small results of modern, 339, 473-476; consideration of work of foreign 476-478; importance of policy of, in Far East, 479-480. See Jesuits. Mitama-San-no-tana, "shelf of the august spirits", 42. Mitama-shiro, "spirit-substitutes", 42. Mitamaya, "august-spirit-dwelling." 42. Mitsukuni, Prince of Mito, 370. Miya, "august house", 36, 42. Money, first appearance of, 447. Monism, higher Buddhism a species of, 210, 220-222. Mother, nine terms signifying, 171. Motowori, Shinto commentator, 368. Mourning-houses, 36; Shinto temple, evolve from, 41-42. Mythology, of the reigning house, 119; summary of the Japanese, 115-116. Nakatomi, noble family of, 241. Nature, controlled by ghosts of ancestors, according to Shinto, 106; Buddhist interpretation of, 192-194. Nihongi, "Chronicles of Nihon", 110, 111, 115-116, 126; cited, 38-39, 112 n., 164 n., 196 n., 232 n., 234 n., 360 n. Nirvana, not preached to common Japanese people, 189, 194-195. Nobility, origin of the, 241-242. See Daimyo. Nobunaga, Oda, massacres of priests by, 251; career of, 274-276; Jesuits favored by, 304-305. Obedience, rules of, 48-49, 63, 157, (see Filial Piety); modern reversion to law of, 63, 377-378; of individual to the community, 89-99. Offerings, to the dead, 37; meat forbidden as, 201. Officers, army pay of, 412. O-harai, ceremony of purification, 144-147. Oho-kuni-nushi-no-Kami, 120, 122; Rough and Gentle Spirits of, 126. Ojin, Emperor, 83; Korean immigration in reign of, 260. Osaka, Temple of the Four Deva Kings at, 200; military headquarters of the Shin sect at, 275; Iyeyasu storms castle of, 322. Ostracism, the punishment by, 95-96; student, 423-424. O-uji, "great families", 60-62, 252. Outcasts, the class of, 98, 247, 250. "Outlines of the Mahayana Philosophy", Kuroda's, 214-215, 222. Painting, effect of Buddhism on, 188; examples of, in temples, 198-199. Panama railroad, debt of, to religion of filial piety, 50. Papacy, interference of, in Jesuit missionary system, 337-338. Parents, rights of, in patriarchal system, 70-72. Pariahs, class of, 98, 247-250. Parliament, convocation of, first, 377 Peasants, revolt of, 324-325; security of, against oppression, 395-396; in the quasi-feudal system, 244-245. See Farmers.