Sociology and individual religion, 405;
  and Shintoism, 407

Southerland, 23

“Soul of Japan,” the, 144

“Soul of the Far East,” quotation, 234

Spencer, 22

Stolidity:  easily distinguished
  from stoicism, 164, 165; the
  peasants, 165; social, not
  racial, 167; cultivated, 168

Students:  testimony of foreign
  teachers, 218; at home and abroad, 219

Suicide, a matter of honor, 154-156

Sutra, translation of, 402

Suspiciousness and military feudalism, 125-126

Taguchi, Dr., brain statistics, 190

Tai-ku Reform, epoch-making period, 201

Takahashi, Mr. G., 229; the
  monks and consciousness of sin, 317

Taste and lack of taste in woman’s dress, 182

Temples, statistics, 296

Tokugawa Shogunate, 38-40;
  how overthrown, 40-43; prohibitive
  of progress, 204; last
  of “Curtain governments,” 214

Torture, in Japan, 132; in Europe, 133

Toys and toy-stores, 96

Trade estimates, 256; Old Japan,
  the Greeks, the Jews
  compared, 257, note; trade
  and the feudal order, 284

Transmigration, 319; theory
  illogical, but helpful, 389

Truthfulness, undeveloped, 255

Tyranny and Western wives 106

Unaesthetic phenomena, 179

Verbeck, Dr. G.F., 91

Visionary tendency, 236, 237

Vivacity, Geisha girl, 168

Wallace, 22

Ward, 22

“Way,” see Muro Kyuso, 250;
  reference to, 287

Wealth increasing, 277

Wedding, Prince Imperial, 268;
  Imperial silver wedding, 268

Woman:  obedience, 55, 56;
  estimates of East and West
  contrasted, 102-103; Western
  estimates, recent growth,
  111, 113 (note); Buddhist and
  Confucian teaching, 112, 259;
  jealousy, 127; her position,
  258; influenced by Hindu
  philosophy, 258; improvement, 268

Writing, a fine art, 173

Xavier, Francis, 308

Yamaguchi, Mr., quotation, 149; the Imperial throne, 373

“Yamato Damashii,” see “The Soul of Japan.”

“Yumei-mujitsu,” see “Nominality.”

FOOTNOTES: 

[Footnote A:  “Things Japanese,” p. 156.]

[Footnote B:  Let not the reader gather from the very brief glance at the attainments of New Japan, that she has overtaken the nations of Christendom in all important respects; for such is far from the case.  He needs to be on his guard not to overestimate what has been accomplished.]

[Footnote C:  Prof.  B.H.  Chamberlain.]