Index
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Hearn, Lafcadio
Izumo temple, the, 122; worship at, 138, 139, 142-143.
Jesuitism, effect of, on Japan, 328: causes of early success of, 330-337; policy of, in China, 331, 337; inability of, to adapt itself to Japanese social conditions, 341.
Jesuits, arrival of, in Japan, 304; favoured by Nobunaga, 304-305; persecutions of, 304-305, 307-308; partial expulsion of, 321; revolt of peasantry managed by, 324-325; final crushing of, 327.
Jigai, method of suicide for women, 287.
Jimmu, Emperor, 259; offerings at tomb of, 37.
Jingo, Emperor, legend of Korean conquest by, 259.
Jinrikisha-men, code of, 401-402.
Jito, Empress, edict of, concerning slavery, 234 n.
Jizo, playmate of infant ghosts, 199; first production of icons of, 200.
Joyousness of existence, Japanese, 12-13.
Junshi, voluntary self-sacrifice, 39-40; decree of Iyeyasu puts stop to, 285-286.
Kami, "gods", 27; significance of, 46-47; devotion to, the first of duties according to Iyeyasu, 350.
Kannushi, office of, 138-140.
Karma, metaphysics of, 220, 221, 222, 224.
Kasuga, the deity of, 83.
Kataki-uchi, custom of, 294-295.
Kiyomasa, Kato, apotheosis of, 127.
Kobetsu, imperial families, 235.
Kobodaishi, 185.
Ko-ji-ki, "Record of Ancient Matters", 110-111, 126, 131; extracts from, 112-114.
Korea, Buddhism brought into Japan from (552 A.D.), 184; Hideyoshi's war against, 277.
Koshin, protector of highways, 200.
Kotoku, Emperor, 39, 265; edict of, concerning slaves, 232 n.
Ko-uji, "lesser families", 60, 230.
Kublai Khan, invasion by, 269.
Kuge, noble families, 241.
Kukai, founder of Shingon sect, 185.
Kumi-enactment's of, 91-92.
Kumi-system, the, 91-94, 168-169.
Kwambaku, "regent", office of the, established, 262.
Kwannon, Goddess of Mercy, 199.
"La Cite Antique", de Coulanges', cited, 27, 34, 67, 443, 449.
Landscape-gardeners, union of the, 404-405.
Language, impossibility of mastering, by adult Occidental, 9; conventional organization of, 170-172; rules governing use of, 171-172.
Law, method and manner of administration, 351-353.
Laws, sumptuary, 164-180.
Laws of Iyeyasu, the, 278.
Laws of Shotoku Taishi, 344-345.
Legacy of Iyeyasu, 68, 319, 345-351, 360.
Libraries under the Tokugawa regime, 357, 370.