The Mikado's EmpireHarper & Brothers, 1877 - Всего страниц: 635 |
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Ainōs American ancient army Ashikaga Asiatic bakufu bamboo beauty became blood bonzes Buddhist called capital castle centuries chief China Chinese Chōshiu Christian civilization clans Corea court daimiōs death dragon dress Echizen emperor empire English eyes face father feet feudalism fire foreign Fudai Fukui girls gods Government hand head heaven Hidéyoshi Hōjō Hokusai honor horse hundred imperial island Iyéyasŭ Izanagi Japa Japan Japanese junks Kamakura kami Kiōto Kiushiu Kojiki koku Kuanon Lake Biwa land live mikado miles military Minamoto ministers moral mountain Nagasaki native Nichiren night noble Nobunaga Ōzaka palace pass peace priests prince provinces religion rice ruler sacred saké samurai Satsuma sect sent Shinto Shō shōgun shrine soldiers streets sword Taira temple Tennō thousand tion Tōkiō Tokugawa vassals village Yamato Yedo Yezo Yokohama Yoritomo Yoshitsuné
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Стр. 98 - Shinto, teaches with emphasis that morals were invented by the Chinese because they were an immoral people, but in Japan there was no necessity for any system of morals, as every Japanese acted aright if he only consulted his own heart.
Стр. 451 - When a danghter is born in the house during the previous year, a pair of hina or images are purchased for the little girl, which she plays with until grown up. When she is married her hina are taken with her to her husband's house, and she gives them to her children, adding to the stock as her family increases.
Стр. 241 - I might affirm respecting religion by a multitude of questions, and, above all, by observing whether my conduct agreed with my words. This done, the king (daimio), the nobility, and adult population would flock to Christ, being a nation which always follows reason as a guide.
Стр. 308 - ... the uncivilized customs of former times should be broken through; and the impartiality and justice displayed in the workings of nature be adopted as a basis of action; and that intellect and learning should be sought for throughout the world, in order to establish the foundations of the empire.
Стр. 244 - Almost everything that is distinctive in the Roman form of Christianity is to be found in Buddhism : images, pictures, lights, altars, incense, vestments, masses, beads, wayside shrines, monasteries, nunneries, celibacy, fastings, vigils, retreats, pilgrimages, mendicant vows, shorn heads, orders, habits, uniforms, nuns, convents, purgatory, saintly and priestly intercession, indulgences, works of supererogation, pope, archbishops, abbots, abbesses, monks, neophytes, relics and relic-worship, exclusive...
Стр. 297 - And so," says the native chronicler, "the prestige of the Tokugawa family, which had endured for three hundred years; which had been really more brilliant than Kamakura in the age of Yoritomo on a moonlight night when the stars are shining; which for more than two hundred and seventy years had forced the...
Стр. 295 - Shirvaku" contained the following instructions:—"The bakufu has shown great disregard of public opinion in concluding treaties without waiting for the opinion of the court, and in disgracing princes so closely allied by blood to the Shogun. The Mikado's rest is disturbed by the spectacle of such misgovernment, when the fierce barbarian is at our very door. Do you, therefore, assist the bakufu with your advice ; expel the barbarians, content the mind of the people; and restore tranquillity to his...
Стр. 96 - I say with awe, Deign to bless me by correcting the unwilling faults which, heard and seen by you, I have committed, by blowing off and clearing away the calamities which evil gods might inflict, by causing me to live long like the hard and lasting rock, and by repeating to the gods of heavenly origin and the gods of earthly origin the petitions which I present every day along with your breath, that they may hear with the sharp-earedness of the forth-galloping colt.
Стр. 98 - Motoori, was nothing else than an engine for reducing the people to a condition of mental slavery, and this was the reason why such a high rank was assigned to the...
Стр. 250 - After nearly a hundred years of Christianity and foreign intercourse, the only apparent results of this contact with another religion and civilization were the adoption of gunpowder and fire-arms as weapons, the use of tobacco and the habit of smoking, the making of sponge cake, the naturalization into the language of a few foreign words, the introduction of new and strange forms of disease...