id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 5979 Hearn, Lafcadio Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation .txt text/plain 117797 5593 62 forms of the Shinto worship of ancestors are the Domestic Cult, the Now the Japanese family, like the ancient Greek or Roman question of marriage in the old Japanese family was a matter of [*The laws of succession in Old Japan differed considerably according To modern thinking, the position of woman in the old Japanese family communal cult in Japan; for the history of the Japanese nation is not The best authority on the local customs and laws of Old Japan, John ancestors of certain noble families of early times; and their temples of ruler, which ancestor-worship in its simple form shows us." Mr. Spencer remarks in the same paragraph on the fact that in ancient general rule, if the family be Buddhist; but the Shinto gods are also the dead, according to ancient Japanese thinking, continued to exist to regard their dead as gods in the ancient sense, the Japanese ./cache/5979.txt ./txt/5979.txt