Weddings, customs as to, 65-67; laws as to food at, 73; presents at, 165-166. Whipping, infrequency of now, as punishment, 421. See Punishments. Wife, gradation of terms signifying, 171. Wine, Buddhist forbids offerings of, 201. Woman, tribute paid to the Japanese, 361-362. Women, mourning rites intrusted to, 43; position of, in old Japanese family, 73-74; as priestesses, 143; forms of speech for use of, 172; methods of suicide for, 287; modern instances of suicide by, 289, 290; duty of vengeance performed by, 293. Worship, three forms of Shinto, 21-22 (See Ancestor-worship); of Imperial ancestors, 108-109; of Sun-goddess, 109-110; at shrines, 119; phallic, 132. Yama, judge of the dead, 198-199. Yamaguchi, land granted to Jesuits at. 332-333. Yamato-damashi, "The Soul of Yamato", 159. Yedo, obligatory residence of daimyo in, 278; Iyeyasu, the founder of, 279. Yeizan, Buddhist high priest, 351. Yuriaku, Emperor, deaths inflicted by, for rudeness, 176.