Clans, number of, in ancient Japan, 83; three great classes of, 235-236; early society an aggregation of, 236-237, 252-253; wars between the military, for supremacy, 267 ff.; misery one result of break-up of, 447-449.
Cleanliness exacted by Shinto, 145-146.
Coffins, size regulated by law, 179.
Colour-prints, production of, 357.
Commerce, contempt for, 246; Portuguese, a help to Jesuit missionary work, 334-335; rise to power, 446; dangers resulting from the rise of, 447-452.
Communism not a modern growth, 255.
Competition, undesirability of, 414-416; Government aid to
national industrial, 451-452.
Concubines, under patriarchal system, 58, 68-69, 74; remarks of
Iyeyasu regarding, 68, 348.
Confucianism, influence of, in Japan, 187-188, 292 ff.
Conscience, doctrine of, admitted by Buddhism, 196.