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Two of these probably under compulsion married Japanese women. For their after-history, see a paper by Satow in the Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, Vol. The policy of isolation, of shutting off Japan from the rest of the world, as adopted by Hidetada and maintained by his successors, sufficiently indicates the fear that religious intrigues had inspired.
Satow has found in Hirata a belief to which this seems to some extent akin the curious Shinto doctrine according to which a divine being throws off portions of itself by a process of fissure, thus producing what are called waki-mi-tama parted spirits, with separate functions. 21 Perhaps the most impressive of all the Buddhist temples in Kyoto.
Kaempfer and even Rein were content to endorse the chronology of the Chronicles the Records avoid dates altogether but other Occidental scholars* have with justice been more sceptical, and their doubts have been confirmed by several eminent Japanese historians in recent times. Where, then, is collateral evidence to be found? *Notably Bramsen, Aston, Satow, and Chamberlain.
7 Satow, 'The Revival of Pure Shinto. 9 The mirror, as an emblem of female divinities, is kept in the secret innermost shrine of various Shinto temples. But the mirror of metal commonly placed before the public gaze in a Shinto shrine is not really of Shinto origin, but was introduced into Japan as a Buddhist symbol of the Shingon sect.
The Dai Nihon Shi soon became a classic, and had such an influence in restoring the power of the Emperor that Mr. Ernest Satow justly calls its composer "the real author of the movement which culminated in the revolution of 1868." A poet, an historian, and a zealous patriot, Rai Sanyo was the Arndt of Japan.
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