THE EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK PRINTED IN JAPAN 1902- PRESENTED AS IT IS . THE SOURCE-  UP TO DATE GUIDE FOR THE LAND of the RISING SUN. WITH MAPS AND NUMEROUS PICTURES  BY H. HOTTA  FIRST EDITION- SKOBE. LYOKOHAMA. STOKYO. LOSAKA. ZP MARUYA & Co LTD MARUZEN KABUSHIKI KAISHA  1902-03    AINU IS THE NATION OF AINU. HOKKAIDO is situated on the north-east of Japan proper having an area of 36,000 square miles. It was known for some two thousand years under the name of Yezo. Originally peopled by Ainu, a semi-savage race expelled from the Main Island by the Japanese. In Meiji era, the Japanese Government established a Colonization Bureau (Kaitakushi) and took steps to develope the place;  Hokkaido of to day is altogether different from the Yezo of thirty years ago. The principal towns are Hakodate, Otaru, Sapporo which have the same latitude as New York, Marseilles, and Rome respectively.The mountains which are neither precipit...

  THE EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK: THE GOSPEL IN ALL LANDS 1902. THE EXCERPT IS PRESENTED AS IT IS, FOUND IN GOOGLE'S BOOKS. THE GERMAN BIBLE BY  LAURA M. LATIMER   MARTIN LUTHER had just received degree of doctor of philosophy. University of Erfurth was at that time most celebrated in all Germany, and the ceremony had been conducted with great pomp. A torchlight procession came to his to pay honor to him. He was only twenty one, and the splendor and magnificence of the festival was enough to turn the head any young man. It was the summer of year 1505.   He went to Mansfield to spend the vacation with his parents, and on his return, when crossing the mountain a short distance from Erfurth, a fearful thunderstorm, which had been gathering over the Thuringian forest, suddenly burst over his head. He was alone and far from shelter, Peal after peal of thunder shook the mountain until it trembled under his feet. The forked lightning tore up the ground in front of him an...

 THE EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK: THE GOSPEL IN ALL LANDS 1902. THE EXCERPT IS PRESENTED AS IT IS, FOUND IN GOOGLE'S BOOKS.  Story of the Christian Church, by George R. Crooks L.L.D. AFTER Mohammed's death his successors entered upon a career of conquest.The condition of the Eastern empire was favorable to the success of their ambition. In every direction the Mohammedans were conquerors; Syria, Persia, North Africa, and Spain were subdued and an advance was made into India. In 750 the caliphate was divided. The caliphs of Damascus were overthrown, a new house, that of Abbas, became supreme.The caliphs of this line chose Bagdad , a new city on the Tigris, for their capital; their rivals of D amascus established themselves in Cordova , Spain. The Turks now appear in history first as the officers of the caliphs, then as their virtual masters,and finally as their conquerors. They are a Tartar race, widely spread over northern and eastern Asia. In the middle of the eleventh century ...

  THE ARTICLE IS THE EXCERPT FROM THIS BOOK 1. GOSPEL IN ALL LANDS.- SEPTEMBER 1902. THE ARTICLE IS PRESENTED AS IT WAS FOUND IN THE WEBSITE- GOOGLE BOOKS- SAME ORTHOGRAPHY. BY LAURA M. LATIMER  One Christmas day many years ago five merchants were unloading their goods in London. Now and then they cast quick glances up and down the street. They seemed anxious and troubled as though they feared some unseen danger. It was the time when the city puts on her holiday dress; the season for festivals, and Christmas gayeties. But London was not gay. The five merchants stopped their work, and marveled at the stillness of the great city. They questioned the passers by, and they learned that a dreadful pestilence was sweeping through London.The King had fied from his palace. The court had suspended its sittings, for the judges and officers of justice had fled also. As the men were relating to them the horrors of the scourge, and they saw the death carts, filling the streets the look of ...

AN EXCERPT FROM THIS BOOK:  A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN JAPAN (INCLUDING FORMOSA), BY BASIL CHAMBERLAIN,F.R.G.S. AND W.B. MASON, CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY AND LATE OF THE IMPERIAL  JAPANESE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS. WITH THIRTY MAPS AND PLANS AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. NINTH EDITION, REVISED THROUGHOUT. LONDON. JOHN MURRAY, ALLEMARLE STREET. YOKOHAMA, SHANGHAI,- KELLY&WALSH, LIMITED-HONKONG, SINGAPORE.1913 AMA-TERASU   IS AMA-TERASU- lit. " The Heaven Shiner ",- that is the Sun-Goddess .She was born from the left eye of the Creator Izanagi, when the latter was performing his ablutions on returning from a visit to his dead wife Izanami in Hades. the Sun-Goddess was herself the ancestress of the Imperial Family of Japan. The most striking episode in her legend is that, in which she is insulted by her brother Susa-no-o , and retires in high dudgeon to a cavern, thus plunging the whole world into darkness.  All the other ...

A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN JAPAN (INCLUDING FORMOSA), BY BASIL CHAMBERLAIN,F.R.G.S. AND W.B. MASON, CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY AND LATE OF THE IMPERIAL  JAPANESE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS. WITH THIRTY MAPS AND PLANS AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. NINTH EDITION, REVISED THROUGHOUT. LONDON. JOHN MURRAY, ALLEMARLE STREET. YOKOHAMA, SHANGHAI,- KELLY&WALSH, LIMITED-HONKONG, SINGAPORE.1913 AIZEN-MYO-ō    IS  AIZEN-MYO-ō  is a Deity, represented with a fierce expression a flaming three eyes.and six arms. Nevertheless. he is popularly regarded as the God of Love . Anderson(source unknown) describes him as a transformation of Atchalâ the Insatiable   EXCERPT FROM THIS BOOK - . THE JAPAN MAGAZINE- A REPRESENTATIVE MONTHLY THE THINGS JAPANESE- MAY 1916. EXEPERT ARTICLE OF  NORITAKE TSUDA ,EXPERT IN THE TOKYO IMPERIAL MUSEUM  ANOTHER familiar Buddhist deity A is Aizen-myo-o . though he is not so widely popular a...

 EXCERPT FROM THIS BOOK A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN JAPAN (INCLUDING FORMOSA), BY BASIL CHAMBERLAIN,F.R.G.S. AND W.B. MASON, CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY AND LATE OF THE IMPERIAL  JAPANESE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS. WITH THIRTY MAPS AND PLANS AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. NINTH EDITION, REVISED THROUGHOUT. LONDON. JOHN MURRAY, ALLEMARLE STREET. YOKOHAMA, SHANGHAI,- KELLY&WALSH, LIMITED-HONKONG, SINGAPORE.1913 Painting of Japan THE EARLIEST PAINTINGS OF JAPAN The earliest painter mentioned in the national récords was a Chinese immigrant named Nanryū or Shinki who settled in Japan in the second half of the fifth century and was followed by many generations of descendants. From the latter part of the fifth to the middle of the ninth century may be considered the first or educational period of Japanese painting.  During this era both pictorial and glyptic art were almost entirely in the hands of foreigners- Koreans or Chinese. Unfortun...

A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN JAPAN (INCLUDING FORMOSA), BY BASIL CHAMBERLAIN,F.R.G.S. AND W.B. MASON, CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY AND LATE OF THE IMPERIAL  JAPANESE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS. WITH THIRTY MAPS AND PLANS AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. NINTH EDITION, REVISED THROUGHOUT. LONDON. JOHN MURRAY, ALLEMARLE STREET. YOKOHAMA, SHANGHAI,- KELLY&WALSH, LIMITED-HONKONG, SINGAPORE.1913  UZUME-NO-MIKOTO IS UZUME-NO-MIKOTO  is a goddess, whose riotous dancing helped to lure the Sun Goddess from her cavern. She is popularly known as Okame and depicted with the ludicrous countenance here illustrated.  

 A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN JAPAN (INCLUDING FORMOSA), BY BASIL CHAMBERLAIN,F.R.G.S. AND W.B. MASON, CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY AND LATE OF THE IMPERIAL  JAPANESE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS. WITH THIRTY MAPS AND PLANS AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. NINTH EDITION, REVISED THROUGHOUT. LONDON. JOHN MURRAY, ALLEMARLE STREET. YOKOHAMA, SHANGHAI,- KELLY&WALSH, LIMITED-HONKONG, SINGAPORE.1913 TENNIN  IS TENNIN (Sanskrit Apsaras) are the Buddhist angels- they are always of the female sex. They are represented as floating in the air. They are clothed in bright coloured robes, that often end in long feathers like the tail of the bird of paradise and  they are playing on musical instruments.  

 A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN JAPAN (INCLUDING FORMOSA), BY BASIL CHAMBERLAIN,F.R.G.S. AND W.B. MASON, CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY AND LATE OF THE IMPERIAL  JAPANESE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS. WITH THIRTY MAPS AND PLANS AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. NINTH EDITION, REVISED THROUGHOUT. LONDON. JOHN MURRAY, ALLEMARLE STREET. YOKOHAMA, SHANGHAI,- KELLY&WALSH, LIMITED-HONKONG, SINGAPORE.1913 TENGU IS TENGU a long nosed goblin often represented with wings and supposed to inhabit the mountains. Please, have a look at the symbol of Norway- the goblin Troll.  

  A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN JAPAN (INCLUDING FORMOSA), BY BASIL CHAMBERLAIN,F.R.G.S. AND W.B. MASON, CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY AND LATE OF THE IMPERIAL  JAPANESE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS. WITH THIRTY MAPS AND PLANS AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. NINTH EDITION, REVISED THROUGHOUT. LONDON. JOHN MURRAY, ALLEMARLE STREET. YOKOHAMA, SHANGHAI,- KELLY&WALSH, LIMITED-HONKONG, SINGAPORE.1913 SHICHI FUKUJIN- ARE  SHICHI FUKUJIN the Seven Gods of Luck namely  1. Ebisu  EBISU one of the Gods of Luck. He is the patron of honest labour. He bears in his hand a fishing rod and a tai fish  2 . Dai koku   DAIKOKU is  the God of Wealth may be known by his rice bales. The image of Daikoku is very  popular in Japanese art, which exhibits little awe of things divine, represents these bales being nibbled at by a rat.  3.Benten  BENTEN or BENZAITEN (please, remember the Empire of the Byzance). Benten is ...

 EXECERPT FROM THIS BOOK:  A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN JAPAN (INCLUDING FORMOSA), BY BASIL CHAMBERLAIN,F.R.G.S. AND W.B. MASON, CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY AND LATE OF THE IMPERIAL  JAPANESE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS. WITH THIRTY MAPS AND PLANS AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. NINTH EDITION, REVISED THROUGHOUT. LONDON. JOHN MURRAY, ALLEMARLE STREET. YOKOHAMA, SHANGHAI,- KELLY&WALSH, LIMITED-HONKONG, SINGAPORE.1913 SHAKA MUNI IS SHAKA MUNI- the Japanese pronunciation of  The Prince- Sakya Muni  .  This is the name of the founder of Buddhism who was also called  The Prince Gautama  and is generally spoken of by Europeans as " The Great Buddha ". It was though, that  it would be more correct to say " the Buddha " ,  as there are many other inferior Buddhas innumerable. In his youth, The Prince Gautama,- he was called  Shitta Taishi  (Sanskrit  Siddhartha). The birth of the Great Bud...

  EXECERPT FROM THIS BOOK:  A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN JAPAN (INCLUDING FORMOSA), BY BASIL CHAMBERLAIN,F.R.G.S. AND W.B. MASON, CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY AND LATE OF THE IMPERIAL  JAPANESE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS. WITH THIRTY MAPS AND PLANS AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. NINTH EDITION, REVISED THROUGHOUT. LONDON. JOHN MURRAY, ALLEMARLE STREET. YOKOHAMA, SHANGHAI,- KELLY&WALSH, LIMITED-HONKONG, SINGAPORE.1913 NI- Õ   IS NI-ō - lit. The Two Dêva Kings  - Indra and Brahma, who keep guard at the outer gate of temples, to scare away the demons. One bears in his hand the tokko.  The figures of the Ni-ō are of the gigantic size and of the terrific appearance. And they are often bespattered with the little pellets of paper, aimed at them by devotees, who think thus to secure the accomplishment of some desire on which they have set their hearts on.

EXECERPT FROM THIS BOOK:  A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN JAPAN (INCLUDING FORMOSA), BY BASIL CHAMBERLAIN,F.R.G.S. AND W.B. MASON, CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY AND LATE OF THE IMPERIAL  JAPANESE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS. WITH THIRTY MAPS AND PLANS AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. NINTH EDITION, REVISED THROUGHOUT. LONDON. JOHN MURRAY, ALLEMARLE STREET. YOKOHAMA, SHANGHAI,- KELLY&WALSH, LIMITED-HONKONG, SINGAPORE.1913 KWANNON IS KWANNON - or more fully Kwanze on Dai Bosatsu  (Sankrit - Avalôkitêsvara )-is the Goddess of Mercy, who contemplates the world and listens to the prayers of the unhappy.  According to another,but less favourite opinion,- Kwannon belongs to the male sex.  Kwannon is represented under various forms-  many-headed, headed like a horse, thousand-handed. With reference to the images of this deity, it should be stated that the so called Thousand- Handed Kwannon has in reality but forty hands, which hold...

  EXECERPT FROM THIS BOOK:  A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN JAPAN (INCLUDING FORMOSA), BY BASIL CHAMBERLAIN,F.R.G.S. AND W.B. MASON, CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY AND LATE OF THE IMPERIAL  JAPANESE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS. WITH THIRTY MAPS AND PLANS AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. NINTH EDITION, REVISED THROUGHOUT. LONDON. JOHN MURRAY, ALLEMARLE STREET. YOKOHAMA, SHANGHAI,- KELLY&WALSH, LIMITED-HONKONG, SINGAPORE.1913 KÕSHIN   IS KÖSHIN a deification of that day of the month which corresponds to the 57th term of the Chinese sexagenary cycle and is called in Japanese Ka-no-e-Saru.  This, being the day of the Monkey is represented by three monkeys- ( sam biki zaru), called respectively by a play upon words: mi-zaru , kika-zaru , and iwa-zaru.  That is the "blind monkey", the "deaf monkey" and the "dumb monkey".  Stone slabs with these three monkeys in relief are among the most usual objects of devotion met with o...

  EXECERPT FROM THIS BOOK:  A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN JAPAN (INCLUDING FORMOSA), BY BASIL CHAMBERLAIN,F.R.G.S. AND W.B. MASON, CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY AND LATE OF THE IMPERIAL  JAPANESE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS. WITH THIRTY MAPS AND PLANS AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. NINTH EDITION, REVISED THROUGHOUT. LONDON. JOHN MURRAY, ALLEMARLE STREET. YOKOHAMA, SHANGHAI,- KELLY&WALSH, LIMITED-HONKONG, SINGAPORE.1913 Jızō is Society of Japan Jızō . Sanskrit Kshitigarbha the Buddhist helper of who are in trouble He is patron of the of travellers, and of the pregnant women, and of children. His image is heaped with pebbles, which serve in the other world to relieve the labours of the young who have been robbed of garments by the hag named Shōzuka- no-Baba, and then set by her  to perform the endless task of piling up the stones on the bank of the river Sai-no-kawara. which is  Buddhist Styx.  Jizō is represented a shaven p...

  EXECERPT FROM THIS BOOK:  A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN JAPAN (INCLUDING FORMOSA), BY BASIL CHAMBERLAIN,F.R.G.S. AND W.B. MASON, CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY AND LATE OF THE IMPERIAL  JAPANESE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS. WITH THIRTY MAPS AND PLANS AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. NINTH EDITION, REVISED THROUGHOUT. LONDON. JOHN MURRAY, ALLEMARLE STREET. YOKOHAMA, SHANGHAI,- KELLY&WALSH, LIMITED-HONKONG, SINGAPORE.1913 INARI IS INARI- the Goddess of Rice also called Uga no Mitama.   The fox whose image is always found in her temples, is her servant or messenger.Though the more igno rant worshippers take that wily beast for the goddess herself .There is some confusion with regard to the sex of Inari, who is occasionally represented as a bearded man  Inari- a temple of the Shingon sect of Buddhists dedicated to the worship of Miroku and properly called Sambō in but generally known as Daigoji. Name Daigoji is coming   from th...

  EXECERPT FROM THIS BOOK:  A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN JAPAN (INCLUDING FORMOSA), BY BASIL CHAMBERLAIN,F.R.G.S. AND W.B. MASON, CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY AND LATE OF THE IMPERIAL  JAPANESE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS. WITH THIRTY MAPS AND PLANS AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. NINTH EDITION, REVISED THROUGHOUT. LONDON. JOHN MURRAY, ALLEMARLE STREET. YOKOHAMA, SHANGHAI,- KELLY&WALSH, LIMITED-HONKONG, SINGAPORE.1913 FUDÕ   IS  FUDÕ-  (Sanskrit Achala)  Much obscurity hangs over the origin and attributes of this popular divinity. According to Monier Williams,- Achala which means immovable.  Fudo 不動 translates this meaning exactly is a name of the Brahmini call The God Siva and of the first of the nine deified persons, who are called White Balas. Among the Jainas  (Satow says)- Fudō Akshara is identified with Dainichi Vâirôkana, else The God of Wisdom, which quality is symbolised by the flames which surrou...

EXECERPT FROM THIS BOOK:  A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN JAPAN (INCLUDING FORMOSA), BY BASIL CHAMBERLAIN,F.R.G.S. AND W.B. MASON, CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY AND LATE OF THE IMPERIAL  JAPANESE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS. WITH THIRTY MAPS AND PLANS AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. NINTH EDITION, REVISED THROUGHOUT. LONDON. JOHN MURRAY, ALLEMARLE STREET. YOKOHAMA, SHANGHAI,- KELLY&WALSH, LIMITED-HONKONG, SINGAPORE.1913 EMMA-Õ  IS Sanskrit (Yama-raja) the regent of the Buddhist hells. He may be known by his cap resembling a judge's beret and by the huge mace in his right hand.  Before him often sit two myrmidons one of whom holds a pen to write down the sins of human beings, while the other reads out the list of their offences from a scroll. 

  EXECERPT FROM THIS BOOK:  A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN JAPAN (INCLUDING FORMOSA), BY BASIL CHAMBERLAIN,F.R.G.S. AND W.B. MASON, CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY AND LATE OF THE IMPERIAL  JAPANESE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS. WITH THIRTY MAPS AND PLANS AND NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. NINTH EDITION, REVISED THROUGHOUT. LONDON. JOHN MURRAY, ALLEMARLE STREET. YOKOHAMA, SHANGHAI,- KELLY&WALSH, LIMITED-HONKONG, SINGAPORE.1913 BINZURU   IS originally one of the Sixteen Rakan -was expelled from their number for having violated his vow of chastity by remarking upon the beauty of a female whence the usual situation of his image outside the sanctum.  It is also said that Buddha conferred on him the power to cure all human ills.  For this reason believers rub the image of Binzuru on that part which may be causing them pain in their own bodies and then rub them selves in the hope of obtaining relief and thus it comes about that such ima...