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Title: The mikado's empire
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Griffis, William Elliot, 1843-1928
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Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
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ugh I often looked for the nagare kanjoin Tokio, I never saw one. I am told, however, that they may beseen in the outskirts of the city. The drawing of one seen near Ta-kefu, in Echizen, was made for me by my artist-friend Ozawa, a num-ber of whose sketches appear in this work. The Protestants of Japanese Buddhism are the followers of Shinshiu, founded by his reverence Shinran, in 1262. Shinran was apupil of Honen, who founded the Jod5 shiu, and was of noble de-scent. While in Kioto, at thirty years of age, he married a lady ofnoble blood, named Tamayori hime, the daughter of the Kuambaku.He thus taught by example, as well as by precept, that marriage washonorable, and that celibacy was an invention of the priests, not war-ranted by pure Buddhism. Penance, fasting, prescribed diet, pil-grimages, isolation from society, whether as hermits or in the cloister,and generally amulets and charms, are all tabooed by this sect. Nun-neries and monasteries are unknown within its pale. The family
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Belfry of a Buddhist Temple iu Ozaka. BUDDHISM IN JAPAN. 173 takes tlie place of monkish seclusion. Devout prayer, purity, andearnestness of life, and trust in Buddha himself as the only worker ofperfect righteousness, are insisted upon. Other sects teach the doc-trine of salvation by works. Shinran taught that it is faith in Buddhathat accomplishes the salvation of the believer. Buddhism seems to most foreigners who have studied it but RomanCatholicism without Christ, and in Asiatic form. The Shin sect holda form of the Protestant doctrine of justification by faith, believingin Buddha instead of Jesus. Singleness of purpose characterizes thissect. Outsiders call it Ikko, from the initial word of a text in theirchief book, Murioju Kid ( Book of Constant Life ). By others itis spoken of as Monto (gate-followers), in reference to their unity oforganization. The Scriptures of other sects are written in Sanskritand Chinese, which only the learned are able to read. Those of Monto are in th

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