Things Japanese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan for the Use of Travellers and OthersK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1891 - 503 páginas |
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Página 250 - If Thought and Love desert us, from that day Let us break off all commerce with the Muse : With Thought and Love companions of our way— Whate'er the senses take or may refuse,— The Mind's internal heaven shall shed her dews Of inspiration on the humblest lay.
Página 233 - European, in order to beat Europeans on their own ground. The Japanese, too, are brave; they are also unpractical. The Chinese, eminently practical folks, follow the doctrine that He who fights and runs away, Will live to fight another day. The
Página 69 - though Shinto was never entirely suppressed. All education was for centuries in Buddhist hands, Buddhism introduced art, introduced medicine, moulded the folk-lore of the country, created its dramatic poetry, deeply influenced politics and every sphere of social and intellectual activity. In a word, Buddhism was the teacher under whose instruction the Japanese nation grew up.
Página 226 - The people of this Hand of lapon are good of nature, curteous aboue measure and valiant in warre : their iustice is seuerely executed without any partialitie vpon transgressors of the law. They are gouerned in great ciuilitie. I meane, not a land better gouerned in the world by ciuill policie. The people be verie superstitious in their religion, and are of diuers
Página 227 - They profess a great respect and veneration for their Gods, and worship them in various ways: And I think I may affirm, that in the practice of virtue, in purity of life, and outward devotion, they far out-do the Christians : Careful for the Salvation of their Souls, scrupulous to excess in the expiation of their crimes, and extremely desirous of future happiness
Página 443 - to emancipate themselves. A woman's lot is summed up in what are termed " the three obediences "—obedience, while yet unmarried, to a father; obedience, when married, to a husband and that husband's parents ; obedience, when widowed, to a son. At the present moment, the greatest
Página 454 - and indignation the jeers of others, suffering such things with patience and humility. If a woman act thus, her conjugal relations cannot but be harmonious and enduring, and her household a scene of peace and concord. "Parents! teach the foregoing maxims to your daughters from their tenderest years
Página 422 - The torii gradually assumed the character of a general symbol of Shinto, and the number which might be erected to the honour of a deity became practically unlimited. The Buddhists made it of stone or bronze, and frequently of redpainted wood, and developed various forms.
Página 155 - No text in the Bible raises so much prejudice here against Christianity as that which commands a man to leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife : "There! you see it," exclaims the anti-Christian Japanese, pointing to the passage,
Página 422 - the torii with this belief, and one of the first things done after the restoration of the Mikado in 1868, in the course of the purification of the Shinto temples, was the removal of these tablets. The etymology of the word is evidently ' bird rest.