ni-se

Updated: May 5, 2025

Domestic service in ancient Japan was both transfigured and regulated by religion; and the force of the religious sentiment concerning it may be divined from the Buddhist saying, still current: Oya-ko wa is-se, Fufu wa ni-se, Shuju wa san-se.

Lafcadio Hearn - Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan : Second Series