INDEX
- Daigo, noble family, hereditary privileges, iv. 5.
- Daihachi, Wada, famous archer, ii. 132.
- Dancing, beginnings, i. 65; harmony of Japanese music, poetry, and, 154; importance in Heian epoch, 219, 229; development and varieties in Heian epoch, 220–228; the Den-gaku and Sam-gaku and the origin of the drama, 226–228, iii. 21–28; the Nō dance-drama, 28–31; Bon, vi. 76, 83; character, 78, 234; vogue, 79; the honen-odori of Kyōtō, 80; the tanabata dance, 81; the gebon-odori, 82; character of the chaunts, 82; specimen chaunts, 83. See also Geisha.
- Danjuro, Ichikawa, famous actor, vi. 119, 122; emoluments, 119.
- Danzayemon Yorikane, made chōri, ii. 43; power and position, 49.
- Debt. See Loans.
- Decoration, interior, in Military epoch, ii. 62, 66, 280; mural paintings of temples, 87–89; of Shōgun's palace, iv. 12; for New Year, vi. 36, 49; for the boys' fête, 71; for the Bon festival, 74.
- Dengyō Daishi, founder of Tendai sect of Buddhists, i. 180, v. 290.
- Deputies of Tokugawa shogunate, iv. 30.
- Diet, constitution of national, iv. 238, 242, 265; powers, 239, 240; conditions, 239–241, 267; influence of House of Peers, 254; procedure, 257–260.
- Disasters, in first part of eighteenth century, iii. 148; fires in Yedo, 149, 153; in second half of eighteenth century, 154; famine in 1833–1835, 162.
- Divination, early, i. 57, 87; official, 174–176; principle of the Book of Changes, v. 221; methods, 222–228, 230–233; professors, 225; popularity, 228; use, 228.
- Divorce, ancient conception, i. 104; right of, under Taikwa reforms, 113. See also Marriage.
- Dokyo, Buddhist monk, conspires to obtain the throne, i. 93, 97, ii. 284.
- Dolmens of ancient Japan, i. 40–44.
- Drama, origin, iii. 21–28; development in Military epoch, 28–31, 48; the farce, 31; and the Indian drama, 32–34; and the Chinese drama, 34; specimen of the early, 35–48; morality, 49; early audiences, 50; plots of the farces, 50; specimen farce, 52–59. See also Theatre.
- Drink, early use of saké, i. 60; in Nara epoch, 146; in Heian epoch, 214, 258; mediæval brewing regulations, vi. 181. See also Food, Tea.
- Dutch, conditions of exclusive trade, i. 7, 8, iii. 128, vi. 167–171; commercial convention of 1610, iii. 125; accuse Catholic priests of polit-
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