The Religions of Japan eBook

William Elliot Griffis
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 432 pages of information about The Religions of Japan.

The Religions of Japan eBook

William Elliot Griffis
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 432 pages of information about The Religions of Japan.

[Footnote 30:  “What you do not want done to yourselves, do not do to others.”  Legge, The Religions of China, p. 137; Doolittle’s Social Life of the Chinese; The Testament of Iyeyas[)u];, Cap.  LXXI., translated by J.C.  Lowder, Yokohama, 1874.]

[Footnote 31:  Die politische Bedeutung der amerikanischer Expedition nach Japan, 1852, by Tetsutaro Yoshida, Heidelberg, 1893; The United States and Japan (p. 39), by Inazo Nitobe, Baltimore, 1891; Matthew Calbraith Perry, Chap.  XXVIII.; T.J., Article Perry; Life and Letters of S. Wells Williams, New York, 1889.]

[Footnote 32:  See Life of Matthew Calbraith Perry, pp. 363, 364.]

[Footnote 33:  Lee’s Jerusalem Illustrated, p. 88.]

CHAPTER V

CONFUCIANISM IN ITS PHILOSOPHICAL FORM

[Footnote 1:  See On the Early History of Printing in Japan, by E.M.  Satow, T.A.S.J., Vol.  X., pp. 1-83, 252-259; The Jesuit Mission Press in Japan, by E.M.  Satow (privately printed, 1888), and Review of this monograph by Professor B.H.  Chamberlain, T.A.S.J., Vol.  XVII., pp. 91-100.]

[Footnote 2:  The Tokugawa Princes of Mito, by Ernest W. Clement, T.A.S.J., Vol.  XVIII., pp. 1-24, and Letters in The Japan Mail, 1889.]

[Footnote 3:  Effect of Buddhism on the Philosophy of the Sung Dynasty, p. 318, Chinese Buddhism, by Rev. J. Edkins, Boston, 1880.]

[Footnote 4:  C.R.M., p. 200; The Middle Kingdom, by S. Wells Williams, Vol.  II., p. 174.]

[Footnote 5:  C.R.M., p. 34.  He was the boy-hero, who smashed with a stone the precious water-vase in order to save from drowning a playmate who had tumbled in, so often represented in Chinese popular art.]

[Footnote 6:  C.R.M., pp. 25-26; The Middle Kingdom, Vol.  I., pp. 113, 540, 652-654, 677.]

[Footnote 7:  This decade in Chinese history was astonishingly like that of the United States from 1884 to 1894, in which the economical theories advocated in certain journals, in the books Progress and Poverty, Looking Backward, and by the Populists, have been so widely read and discussed, and the attempts made to put them into practice.  The Chinese theorist of the eleventh century, Wang Ngan-shih was “a poet and author of rare genius.”—­C.R.M., p. 244.]

[Footnote 8:  John xxi. 25.]

[Footnote 9:  This is the opinion of no less capable judges than Dr. George Wm. Knox and Professor Basil Hall Chamberlain.]

[Footnote 10:  The United States and Japan, pp. 25-27; Life of Takano Choyei by Kato Sakaye, T[=o]ki[=o], 1888.]

[Footnote 11:  Note on Japanese Schools of Philosophy, by T. Haga, and papers by Dr. G.W.  Knox, Dr. T. Inoue, T.A.S.J., Vol.  XX, Part I.]

[Footnote 12:  A religion, surely, with men like Yokoi Heishiro.]

[Footnote 13:  See pp. 110-113.]

[Footnote 14:  Kinno—­loyalty to the Emperor; T.A.S.J., Vol.  XX., p. 147.]

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