A.S.J.,
Vols. VII., IX.; Esoteric Shint[=o], by Percival Lowell, T.A.S.J, Vol.
XXI.]
[Footnote 16: Compare Sections IX. and XXIII. of the Kojiki.]
[Footnote 17: This indeed seems to be the substance of the modern
official expositions of Shint[=o] and the recent Rescripts of the
Emperor, as well as of much popular literature, including the
manifestoes or confessions found on the persons of men who have
"consecrated" themselves as "the instruments of Heaven for punishing the
wicked," i.e., assassinating obnoxious statesmen. See The Ancient
Religion, M.E., pp. 96-100; The Japan Mail, _passim_.]
[Footnote 18: Revival of Pure Shint[=o], pp. 25-38.]
[Footnote 19: Japanese Homes, by E.S. Morse, pp. 228-233, note, p. 832.]
[Footnote 20: Chamberlain's Aino Studies, p. 12.]
[Footnote 21: Geological Survey of Japan, by Benj. S. Lyman, 1878-9.]
[Footnote 22: The Shell Mounds of Omori; and The Tokio Times, Jan. 18,
1879, by Edward S. Morse; Japanese Fairy World, pp. I78, 191, 196.]
[Footnote 23: Kojiki, pp. 60-63.]
[Footnote 24: S. and H., pp. 58, 337, etc.]
[Footnote 25: This study in comparative religion by a Japanese, which
cost the learned author his professorship in the Tei-Koku Dai Gaku or
Imperial University (lit.
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