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Hearn, Lafcadio
Registrars, Buddhist priests become public, 203-204.
Relationship, gradation of nouns indicating, 171.
Religion, summary of three forms of Shinto, 21-22; of final piety, 48-51, 57, 65, 188, 459; the basis of organization of patriarchal family, 57, 64; marriage a rite of, 65-67: identity of government with, 100, 101; metaphysics of Buddhist, 207-228; origin in, of customs of the vendetta, 295; tolerance of, by Iyeyasu (except Roman Catholicism), 349-350; the life of the Japanese people, 463-464; obstacles to propagation of the Western, in the Far East, 479. See Ancestor-worship and Missions.
Responsibility from above downward, 395-400.
"Review of the Introduction of Christianty into China and Japan", quoted from, 305.
Revolution, modern industrial, 445-449; dangers of a social, 448-451.
Rice-pot, goddess of the, 130.
"Riddle of the Universe", Haeckel's cited, 221.
Roads, under the protection of Buddhist deities, 130.
Romans, ancient, parallels between Japanese and, 27, 29, 34, 57, 65, 67, 70, 78, 99, 148, 169, 229, 234, 264, 443, 444, 446.
Rudeness, Japanese definition of, 175.
Russia, the war with, 462-463.
Ryobu-Shinto, establishment of; 185-186.
Sacrifices, history of all religious, traceable to offerings to ghosts, 30; ancient funeral, 37-38; origin of human, 284; of one's family, 290-291. See Junshi.
Samurai, class of the, 243, 251; obligation of, to perform harakiri, 287; suppression of, 376.
Saris, Captain, account by, of an execution, 177-178; quoted, 318.
Satow, Sir Earnest, quoted, 43 n., 49, 68, 126 n., 141, 142, 160-161, 312 n., 333.
Satsuma, clan of the, 367, 372.
Scarecrows, god of, 130, 135, 153.
Scholarship, advance of, in Tokugawa period, 369-370.
School, training of children in, 421-425.
Schools, connected with Buddhist temples, 203; Government, 424-425.
Sculpture, developed in Japan under Buddhist teachings, 188; displayed in roadside images, 200, 459.
Sekigahara, battle of, 278.
Self-control, legal enforcement of, 173-174.
Seppuku, Chinese term for harakiri, 287.
Servants, in Old Japan, 76-78; conservative attitude of, 400; position of maid, 407-408. See Apprentices and Dependants.
"Shadow-Shogun", the, 268; deposition of, 267.
Shelf of the august spirits, 42.
Shimabara Revolt, the, 324-325.
Shimonoseki, Bombardment of, 374.
Shin, sect of, defeated by Nobunaga, 275-276.
Shinbetsu, "divine branch" of families, 235.
Shin-Shir-Sai, the Ninth Festival, 245.
Shinto, signification, 21; forms of worship, 21-22; the morals of, 100-101; relation to Japanese mythology to, summarized, 115-134; origin of gods of the house in, 129-130; greater gods of, acknowledged by Buddhism, 190; restoration of, 374; no essential of Buddhism weakened by, 379-380. See Ancestor-worship.
Shogun, authority of the, 241, 251-252: significance of term, 267; extension of power of the, 267-268.
Shogunate, beginning of the history of, 267; abolition of the, 374.
Shorei-Hikki, "Record of Ceremonies", 66.
Shoryobune, "ghost-ships;" 202.
Shrines, worship at, 121, 123, 138-139.