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The land remains what it was before; its face has scarcely been modified by all the changes of Meiji. The miniature railways and telegraph poles, the bridges and tunnels, might almost escape notice in the ancient green of the landscapes.
With the establishment of the Emperor on the throne, began the modern era in Japanese history, known in Japan as "Meiji" "Enlightened Rule." But not even yet was the purpose of the nation attained, namely, the expulsion of the polluters of the sacred soil of Japan.
Not until the Meiji Restoration was he enrolled in the list of sovereigns under the name of Chukyo. There had not been any previous instance of such treatment of the Imperial family by a subject, and public opinion was not unnaturally somewhat shocked.
As I then felt, so feels the intelligent student of the Meiji era whom education has lifted above the common plane of popular creeds.
But the eyes of the dragons and the lions have been stolen because they were made of fine crystal- quartz, and there was none to guard them, and because neither the laws nor the gods are quite so much feared now as they were before the period of Meiji. Sakusa is a very small cluster of farmers' cottages before a temple at the verge of a wood the temple of Yaegaki.
These laws were rigidly applied, the entire family of the suicide being held responsible for a case of junshi: yet the custom cannot be said to have become extinct until considerably after the beginning of the era of Meiji.
Deign, I pray thee, to let me be cured speedily. Do not suffer me to speak much. Make me to obey in all things the command of the physician. 'This ninth day of the eleventh month of the twenty-fourth year of Meiji. 'From the sick body of Shida to his Soul. September 4, 1891. The long summer vacation is over; a new school year begins. There have been many changes.
Those far-seeing rulers of the Meiji era, who disestablished Buddhism to strengthen Shinto, doubtless knew they were giving new force not only to a faith in perfect harmony with their own state policy, but likewise to one possessing in itself a far more profound vitality than the alien creed, which although omnipotent as an art-influence, had never found deep root in the intellectual soil of Japan.
Pretty much all early Japanese "history" is ooze; yet there are grave and learned men, even in the Constitutional Japan of the Méiji era masters in their arts and professions, graduates of technical and philosophical courses who solemnly talk about their "first emperor ascending the throne, B.C. 660," and to whom the dragon-born, early Mikados, and their fellow-tribesmen, seen through the exaggerated mists of the Kojiki, are divine personages.
Thus, whereas at the opening of the Meiji era, every manufacture was of a domestic character, and such a thing as a joint-stock company did not exist, there are now fully 11,000 factories giving employment to 700,000 operatives, and the number of joint-stock companies aggregates 9000.
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