Japan: An Attempt at InterpretationHearn, Lafcadio
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Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation
Hearn, Lafcadio
Japan -- Civilization
Sun-goddess, worship of, 109-110, 116-117; acknowledged by
Buddhism, 190; offerings of first fruits to, by Emperor, 245 n.
Surgeons, efficiency of Japanese, 441.
Sword-making, most sacred of crafts, 125, 154, 245-246.
Swords, wearing of, prohibited, 376.
Tables, mortuary, 42-43; Buddhist mortuary (ihai), 201.
Taira, rise and fall of the, 266-267.
Taishi, Shotoku, proclamation of, regarding politeness, 359-360.
Takatoki, sacrifical suicide by the sword originated by, 39.
Takayama, a Japanese Jesuit, 321.
Take-no-uji-no-Sukune, apotheosis of, 127.
"Tales of Old Japan", Mitford's, 247, 295.
Tattooing of slaves, 232.
Tea-ceremony, in Tokugawa period, 358-359.
Teachers, Buddhist priests as, 202-203; duties to, same as to
fathers, 294; salaries of, 412; relation of, to pupils, 422;
transformation stages in attitude of, pupils toward, 431-433.
Temmu, Emperor, decree of, forbidding use of meat, 196;
reorganization of castes by, 236; reign of, 237.
Temple of the Four Deva Kings at Osaka, 200.
Temples, Shinto, evolved from mourning-houses, 41; Shinto parish
dedicated to Uji-gods (Ujigami), 82-84; Shinto, of the first
grade, 121; Shinto, classification of, 123; forms of art in
Buddhist, 198-199; notable examples of, 200; schools connected
with, 203; Buddhist, burned by Jesuits, 306, 308; Shinto, in
Formosa, 388; number of Shinto, at present, 470; memorial
character of new, 470.
Terakoya, drama of, 291.
Thieves sentenced to slavery, 234.
Togo, Vice-Admiral, reply of, to Imperial message, 463.
Tokugawa, shogunate of, Japanese civilization reaches limit of
development under, 343. See Iyeyasu.
Tokyo, widespread poverty in, resulting from industrial
revolution, 446.
Tools, surprising shapes of, 7; sacredness of, 153.
Toshogu, Iyeyasu worshipped under name of, 127.
Trade, mean rank of those engaged in, 246. See Commerce.
Tragedy, Japanese, founded on fact, 290-291.
Ujigami, original relation of community to, 81-82; as clan-deities,
82-84; offences against, 88; relation of the individual to,
120-121; cults of, maintained, and not supplanted, by
Buddhism, 379.
Uneme-no-kami, Takenaka, 324.
University, students at the, 425-426.
Utensils, domestic, sacredness of, 153; art displayed in, 357.
Uyernon no Hyoge, decree concerning junshi disobeyed by, 285.
Variety to be found in Japanese form of civilization, 256-257.
Vendetta, religious origin for customs of, 295.
Vengeance, the duty of, 292-293; Iyeyasu's decree concerning code
of, 293.
Verb, etiquette governing uses of the, 171-172.
Vice, Iyeyasu on suppression of, 346-347.
Village-laws, peasants' 395-396.
Wages of maid-servants, 408.
"Wanderings of Cain", Coleridge's, 122.
War, ten centuries of, following rise of military power, 259-267;
against Korea, 277; with peasantry, 324-325; with Russia, 462-463.
Warfare, divination in, 152.
Way of the Buddha, the (Butsudo), 21.
Way of the Gods, the (Shinto), 21, 41.
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