Woman, tribute paid to the Japanese, 361-362.
Women, mourning rites intrusted to, 43; position of, in old Japanese family, 73-74; as priestesses, 143; forms of speech for use of, 172; methods of suicide for, 287; modern instances of suicide by, 289, 290; duty of vengeance performed by, 293.
Worship, three forms of Shinto, 21-22 (See Ancestor-worship); of Imperial ancestors, 108-109; of Sun-goddess, 109-110; at shrines, 119; phallic, 132.
Yama, judge of the dead, 198-199.
Yamaguchi, land granted to Jesuits at. 332-333.
Yamato-damashi, "The Soul of Yamato", 159.
Yedo, obligatory residence of daimyo in, 278; Iyeyasu, the founder of, 279.
Yeizan, Buddhist high priest, 351.
Yuriaku, Emperor, deaths inflicted by, for rudeness, 176.