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In some cases the people were officially notified that they were at liberty to adopt the new religion; in other cases, converted lords ordered them to do so. The original document is thus translated by Sir Ernest Satow, who reproduced it in facsimile: "With respect to Daidoji in Yamaguchi Agata, Yoshiki department, province of Suwo.
Hence the unbiassed student must depend on his own reading of and judgment upon the ancient records, assisted by the thorough work done by the English scholars Aston, Satow, Chamberlain, Bramsen and others.
1 This was written early in 1892 2 Quoted from Mr. Satow's masterly essay, 'The Revival of Pure Shinto, published in the Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan. By 'gods' are not necessarily meant beneficent Kami. Shinto has no devils; but it has its 'bad gods' as well as good deities. 3 Satow, 'The Revival of Pure Shinto. 4 Ibid. 5 In the sense of Moral Path, i.e. an ethical system.
In the Imperial City the ritual services were very imposing. Those in expectation of the harvest were held in the great hall of the Jin-Gi-Kuan, or Council of the Gods of Heaven and Earth. The description of the ceremonial is given by Mr. Satow.
Hirata therefore declared that all virtues derived from the worship of ancestors; and his words, as translated by Sir Ernest Satow, deserve particular attention: "It is the duty of a subject to be diligent in worshipping his ancestors, whose minister he should consider himself to be.
"As it is, the religion of the Japanese consists in the belief that the productive ethereal spirit, being expanded through the whole universe, every part is in some degree impregnated with it; and therefore, every part is in some measure the seat of the Deity." Abraham Kuyper, Amsterdam, 1892; translated by Rev. Ernest Satow, now the British Minister at Tangier.
Except in special works by such men of erudition as Chamberlain and Satow works with which the Occidental reader, unless himself a specialist, is not likely to become familiar outside of Japan little has been written in English about Shinto which gives the least idea of what Shinto is.
Even in the present reign the most glorious in Japanese history there have been two rebellions, during one of which a rival Emperor was set up in one part of the country, and a republic proclaimed in another. As for Bushido, so modern a thing is it that neither Kaempfer, Siebold, Satow, nor Rein all men knowing their Japan by heart ever once allude to it in their voluminous writings.
He received the degree of B.A. from the London University. After several years' study and experience in China, Mr. Satow came to Japan in 1861 as student-interpreter to the British Legation, receiving his first drill under Rev. S.R. Brown, D.D., author of A Grammar of Colloquial Japanese.
In preparing materials for the student of the religions of Japan many laborers have wrought in various fields, but the chief literary honors have been taken by the English scholars, Messrs. Satow, Aston, and Chamberlain. These untiring workers have opened the treasures of ancient thought in the Altaic world.
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