Prices, official, (1735)
Priesthood, Buddhist, attempt to bring under law; armed priests; princes enter, except Crown Prince; temporal power; scholarship
—Catholic, Ieyasu's attitude; and see Jesuits, Franciscans,
Dominicans, Augustins
—Shinto, early rules
Prime Minister, 85, development of political power; office first established (671)
Primogeniture in early times, Imperial; in the family; Imperial, established 696 A.D.
Princely Houses
Princes, Imperial, change of status in Nara epoch; many become priests in Ashikaga epoch; abbots of Enryaku-ji and Kwanei-ji; all but Crown Prince enter priesthood; prince abbots, or monzeki
Printing, Buddhist amulets (770); in China; from movable type, about 1592
Prisons