The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East/Volume 13
The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East
With Historical Surveys of the Chief Writings of Each Nation
Translations, Bibliographies, etc., by the following Leading Orientalists:
In America:
Morris Jastrow, LL.D., Professor of Semitic Languages, University of Pennsylvania; James H. Breasted, LL.D., Professor of Egyptology, University of Chicago; Charles C. Torrey, D.D., Professor of Semitic Languages, Yale University; A. V. W. Jackson, LL.D., Professor of Indo- Iranian, Columbia University; Charles R. Lanman, LL.D., Professor of Sanskrit, Harvard University; Rev. Charles F. Aiken, S.T.D., Dean of the Faculty of Theology, Catholic University; Friedrich Hirth, LL.D., Professor of Chinese, Columbia University; Rev. William E. Griffis, D.D., former Professor at the Imperial University, Tokio.
In Europe:
E. A. W. Budge, F.S.A., Director of Egyptology in the British Museum; Sir Gaston Maspero, D.C.L., Member of the Royal Institute of France; Rev. A. H. Sayce, LL.D., Professor of Comparative Philology, Oxford University; W. Flinders-Petrie, LL.D., Professor of Egyptology, University College, London; Stephen Langdon, Ph.D., Professor of Assyriology, Oxford University; Sir Ernest Satow, LL.D., G.C.M.G., British Minister to Japan; H. Oldenberg, LL.D., Professor of Sanskrit, Kiel University; T. W. Rhys-Davids, LL.D., Librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society; Arminius Vambéry, LL.D., Professor of Oriental Languages, University of Budapest.
In Asia:
Sir M. Coomara Swamy, Legislative Council of Ceylon; Romesh Chunder Dutt, C.I.E., Author of the History of Civilization in Ancient India; Darab D. P. Sanjana, Educational Society of Bombay; Viscount Kencho Suyematsu, LL.M., Japanese Minister of the Interior; Sheik Faiz-Ullah-Bhai, Head Master of the Schools of Anjuman-i-Islam; Ralph T. Griffith, President Benares College, India; Jivanji Jamshedji Modi, Fellow of Bombay University, Officier de l'Académie Française.
Under the editorship of a staff of specialists directed by
Prof. Charles F. Horne, Ph.D.
Parke, Austin, and Lipscomb, Inc.
New York London
This Volume is one of a complete set of the Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, consisting of fourteen volumes. In Volume I of the series will be found a certificate as to the limitation of the edition and the registered number of this set.
Copyright, 1917,
Parke, Austin, and Lipscomb, Inc.
The God of Children.
This Japanese God of Children is known as Jizo or Jesu.
“Let there be light.”—Genesis I, 3.
“There never was a false god, nor was there ever really a false religion, unless you call a child a false man.”—Max Müller.
Contents of Volume XIII
Japan
Introduction—The Youngest Civilized Race and Its Revelations of Primitive Religious Thought |
1 |
I.—The Kojiki, or “Records of Ancient Matters” (A.D. 712) |
9 |
The Birth of the Deities |
14 |
Quarrel of the Gods Izanagi and Izanami |
23 |
Ama-terasu, the Sun-Goddess |
30 |
The Beast Legends |
43 |
The Champion of Japan |
51 |
II.—The Nihongi, or “Chronicles of Japan” (A.D. 720) |
63 |
The Age of the Gods |
67 |
Conquest of Japan |
76 |
Laws of Kotoku (A.D. 645) |
101 |
The Later Rulers |
147 |
III.—The Yengishiki, or Shinto Rituals (A.D. 927) |
161 |
The Harvest Ritual |
165 |
Ritual for the Wind Gods |
166 |
Ritual for Evil Spirits |
169 |
The Road God’s Ritual |
171 |
Rituals to the Sun-Goddess |
172 |
Purification Ritual |
174 |
IV.—The Man-Yoshu, or “Myriad Leaves,” Japan's Oldest Poetry (A.D. 760) |
177 |
V.—The Kokinshu, or “Collection of Odes” (A.D. 905) |
219 |
The Most Polished Poetry |
223 |
The National Anthem |
227 |
VI.—Genji Monogatari, the Foremost Japanese Novel (about A.D. 980) |
229 |
VII.—The Medieval Drama of Japan (about A.D. 1400) |
347 |
The Death Stone |
352 |
Life Is a Dream |
360 |
VIII.—Basho, the Chief Japanese Poet (A.D. 1644–1694) |
369 |
The Hokku or Epigram Verses |
372 |
393 |
The Gospel of the White Lotus |
396 |
415 |
Illustrations in Volume XIII
Jesu, the God of Children |
Frontispiece |
The Japanese Angel Spirit, Kichijo |
168 |
A Japanese Poet |
224 |
Nicheren Shonin, a Portrait |
320 |
The Great Bronze Buddha of Tokio |
400 |