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Hearn, Lafcadio
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.
Perry, Commodore, advent of, 374.
Poems in praise of the dead, 35.
Poetry, contests in, during Tokugawa period, 358.
Politeness as an art, 359-361.
Politics, modern Japanese, 389.
Pollution, death regarded as, 40-41.
Polygyny, in ancient society, 67-69.
Population, alien elements in, 16-17.
Porcelains, Japanese, 9, 356-357.
Poverty, resulting from modern industrial revolution, 446-451.
Prayer, prescribed by Hirata. 134; daily, 134-137.
Presents, sumptuary laws concerning, 165, 168.
Pretas, wicked ghosts, 191.
Priests, Shinto, office and powers of, 86-87, 101-105, 139-140; Buddhist, as teachers, 203-204; ranked with the samurai, 247; massacres of, in the sixteenth century, 251; Buddhist, as warriors, 269, 275-276. See Jesuits.
Privacy, lack of, in Japan ancient and modern, 100.
Professions, under divine patronage, 153-154.
Pronouns, rules as to use of, 171.
Property, laws of succession to, in Old Japan, 72-73.
Psychology, difference between Eastern and Western, 9.
Punishment of school-children, 421-422.
Punishment, severity of, under ancient system, 94-95, 176-177; by communities, 94-99; by tutelar deities, 102-105; laws as to, 175-177.
Purification, ceremonies of, 144-115; by ascetic practices, 148-150.
Rebirth, doctrine of, inconsistent with early Japanese beliefs, 55; the Buddhist idea of, and ancestor-worship, 193 n.
Reform, agitation for industrial. 452-454.
Regency, growth of the, 262-264; usurpation of power by the, 264-267.