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their fruits.--The Japanese aesthetic.--Art and decoration in the
temples.--Exterior resemblances between the Roman form of Christianity
and of Buddhism.--Quotation from "The Mikado's Empire."--Internal vital
differences.--Enlightenment and grace.--Ingwa and love.--Luxuriance of
the art of Northern Buddhism.--Variety in individual treatment.--Place
of the temple in the life of Old Japan.--The protecting trees.--The bell
and its note.--The graveyard and the priests' hold upon it.--Japanese
Buddhism as a political power.--Its influence upon military
history.--Abbots on horseback and monks in armor.--Battles between the
Shin and Zen sects.--Nobunaga.--Influence of Buddhism in literature and
education.--The temple school.--The _kana_ writing.--Survey and critique
of Buddhist history in Japan.--Absence of organized charities.--Regard
for animal and disregard for human life.--The Eta.--The Aino.--Attitude
to women.--Nuna and numerics.--Polygamy and concubinage.--Buddhism
compared with Shint[=o].--Influence upon morals.--The First Cause.--Its
leadership among the sects.--Unreality of Amida Buddha.--Nichiren.--His
life and opinions.--Idols and avatars.--The favorite scripture of the
sect, the Saddharma Pundarika.--Its central dogma, everything in the
universe capable of Buddha-ship.--The Salvation Army of
Buddhism.--K[=o]b[=o]'s leaven working.--Buddhism ceases to be an
intellectual force.--The New Buddhism.--Are the Japanese eager for
reform?

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The many-sided story of Japanese Christianity.--One hundred years of
intercourse between Japan and Europe.--State of Japan at the
introduction of Portuguese Christianity.--Xavier and Anjiro.--Xavier at
Ki[=o]to and in Bungo.--Nobunaga and the Buddhists.--High-water mark of
Christianity.--Hideyoshi and the invasion of Korea.--Kato and
Konishi.--Persecutions.--Arrival of the Spanish friars.--Their violation
of good faith.--Spirit of the Jesuits and Franciscans.--Crucifixion on
the bamboo cross.--Hideyori.--Kato Kiyomasa.--The Dutch in the Eastern
seas.--Will Adams.--Iyeyas[)u] suspects designs against the sovereignty
of Japan.--The Christian religion outlawed.--Hidetada follows up the
policy of Iyeyas[)u], excludes aliens, and shuts up the country.--The
uprising of the Christians at Shimabara in 1637.--Christianity buried
from sight.--Character of the missionaries and the form of the faith
introduced by them.--No