ariga

Updated: June 25, 2025

Ariga, is disposed to regard the above as the composition of some one of later date than the illustrious Shotoku, but he considers that it rightly represents the relation assigned to the three doctrines by the Japanese of the sixth and seventh centuries. "Shinto teaches about the origin of the country but does not deal with the present or the future.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era