doubly-compound

Updated: July 14, 2026

Once fully evolved, what we may still call Feudal Japan, for want of a better name, presented most of the features of a doubly-compound society of the militant type, with certain marked approaches toward the trebly-compound type. A striking peculiarity, of course, is the absence of a true ecclesiastical hierarchy, due to the fact that Government never became dissociated from religion.

Lafcadio Hearn - Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation