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Updated: May 21, 2025
She had no thought at that moment but to find the truant cow and get her safely stabled before dark. The trail led directly to a rocky hollow about a hundred yards from the edge of the pasture perhaps a hundred and fifty yards from the doorway wherein Mrs. Griffis sat intently watching Melindy's progress.
Griffis ran close up to the combatants. The bear was being kept too busy to spare her any attention whatever. There was a roar that filled the hollow like the firing of a cannon, and the bear collapsed sprawling, with a great hole blown through his heart. Old "Spotty" drew back astonished, snorted noisily, and rolled wild eyes upon her mistress.
Griffis tells us that nearly every Daimio had his Court lacquerer, and that a set of household furniture and toilet utensils was part of the dowry of a noble lady.
I can do no better than quote in this connection a paragraph from the "Religions of Japan" by W.E. Griffis: "From the prehistoric days when the custom of 'Junshi, or dying with the master, required the interment of living retainers with their dead lord, down through all the ages to the Revolution of 1868, when at Sendai and Aidzu scores of men and boys opened their bowels, and mothers slew their infant sons and cut their own throats, there has been flowing a river of suicides' blood having its springs in devotion of retainers to masters, and of soldiers to a lost cause.... Not only a thousand, but thousands of thousands of soldiers hated their parents, wife, child, friend, in order to be disciples to the supreme loyalty.
Though you be such a little mite of a towhead, you've got the grit, you've got the grit, Melindy Griffis. It's proud of you I am, and it's proud your father'll be when I tell him about it." Then, as the girl's weeping continued, and her slender shoulders continued to twist with her sobs, the rugged old face that bent above her grew tenderly solicitous. "There, there!" she murmured again.
The interpretation given the system by W.E. Griffis, in his volume on the "Religions of Japan," is suggestive, but in view of all the facts does not seem conclusive. "One of the most remarkable features of Shinto" he writes, "was the emphasis laid on cleanliness. Pollution was calamity, defilement was sin, and physical purity at least was holiness.
"Then listen to this," and he read the following extract from that excellent work, "The Mikado's Empire," by W.E. Griffis: "It has, until recently, in Japan been the custom for every Samurai to be named differently in babyhood, boyhood, manhood, or promotion, change of life, or residence, in commemoration of certain events, or on account of a vow, or from mere whim."
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