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Updated: May 15, 2025
They went to see " The Mikado" one evening, an open which was hilariously popular at that time. Before going they made off for the Windsor dinning-room, which was in Dearborn Street, a considerable distance from Carrie's room. It was blowing up cold, and out of her window. Carrie could see the western sky, still pink with the fading light, but steely blue at the top where it met the darkness.
I do not know of any evidence against the view that the Mikado is divine. Japanese religion is essentially nationalistic, like that of the Jews in the Old Testament. Shinto, the State religion, has been in the main invented since 1868, and propagated by education in schools. Buddhism subsists side by side with it, and is believed by the same people.
No one has dared in all that time to lift a hand against these holy buildings. Can you design to do so?" "Yes," answered Nobunaga, sternly. "I have put down the villains that distracted the country, and I intend to bring peace upon the land and restore the power of the mikado. The bonzes have opposed my efforts and aided my enemies.
He is a young, not very good-looking man, with rather a sullen expression, and legs that look as though they did not belong to him I suppose from using them so little, and sitting so much on his heels; for until the last few years the Mikado has always been considered far too sacred a being to be allowed to set foot on the earth.
His principal titles are, 'Zen Zi' 'Son of Heaven; 'Mikado, 'Emperor; and 'Dairi, or 'Kinrai, 'Grand Interior: the latter denoting the perpetual seclusion of his person. It is said that his ancestry can be traced in an unbroken line from nearly 700 years before the Christian era.
As a monk he exercised more power than he had done as a mikado, retaining the control of affairs during the reigns of his son and his two grandsons.
The day of retribution was at hand. The son of the mikado Go-Daigo was the first to rebel. His plans were discovered by spies, and his father ordered him to retire to a monastery, in which, however, he continued to plot revenge. Go-Daigo himself next struck for the power of which he possessed but the name. Securing the aid of the Buddhist priests, he fortified Kasagi, a stronghold in Yamato.
The war cemented classes in Japan almost to a condition of homogeneity practically every subject of the Mikado believed in the necessity for the conflict, and made sacrifices to contribute to the cost thereof. Distinctions of class are now seldom thought of, and it contributes mightily to the material improvement of a nation to have a single language.
Purity of life and body is the leading feature of the Sintoo faith. The value attached to indulgences and charms is very great, and the sale of them contributes largely to the revenues of the Mikado. Charms are eagerly purchased by the lower orders, who carry them about their persons, and never let anybody touch them except themselves.
The God of the Living in Old Japan was, of course, the Mikado, the deity incarnate, Arahito-gami, and his palace was the national sanctuary, the Holy of Holies. Formerly a great number of temples were maintained, or partly maintained, from the imperial revenues. All Shinto temples of importance used to be classed as greater and lesser shrines.
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