Feudalism, Japanese so-called, 230-238, 253.
Flower-arrangement, art of, 358-359.
Flower-daughter, the, 64.
Food, the use by ghosts of, 29-30; offerings of, to the dead, 29-30,
45; offerings to the gods, 53 n., 138, 140, 141; for the dead
might not be eaten by children, 51 n.: laws as to, at weddings
and funerals, 165; offerings of, to Pretas, 191; decree
forbidding use of flesh for, 196; Buddhist offerings of, 201;
recent increase in price of, 412 n.
"Forty-seven Ronin", story of the, 295-296: tombs of the, 297 n.
Four Deva Kings, the, 260; temple of, 200.
Franciscans in Japan, 307 ff.
Freedmen, class of, 233, 234-235.
Freemasonry in Japan, 472 n.
Fujiwara clan, rise of the, 260-261; duration of rule of, 260, 266, 281; final degeneration of, 266-267.