Merchants, place of, in social ranking, 246; modern rise of, to
power, 446.
Metempsychosis, no doctrine of, in Shinto, 55 ff., 189-190.
Mikado, God of the Living, 122-125; usurpation of powers of, 260-266.
Miko, girl-priestesses, 142-143.
Mimidzuka, "Ear-monument", 277.
Minamoto, regency of the, 267-268.
Mionoseki, Eta settlement at, 249.
Miracle-plays performed by Jesuits, 334.
Missions, Christian, causes of small results of modern, 339, 473-476; consideration of work of foreign 476-478; importance of policy of, in Far East, 479-480. See Jesuits.
Mitama-San-no-tana, "shelf of the august spirits", 42.