[ [189] See a contribution by Mr. S. Tuke to the Japan Society's Transactions, vol. iv., 1896-7, and a paper by the present writer in the T.A.S.J. for December, 1899. Mr. B. H. Chamberlain holds a different view, which is stated in the Journal of the Anthropological Institute, 1895, and in 'Things Japanese,' fourth edition.

[ [190] See [Index], Rokkon Shōjō.

[ [191] Nihongi, i. 113.

[ [192] Chamberlain's Kojiki, p. 312.

[ [193] See [Index], Ohoharahi.

[ [194] I quote here, not from any religious document, but from a poem of the Manyōshiu, a solitary instance of a religious stigma being attached to lying:

"If, while not loving, I said that I loved thee, The God who dwells In the grove of Uneda in Matori Will take note of it."

[ [195] Ch. K. 291.

[ [196] See above, [p. 129.]

[ [197] Quoted by Dr. Florenz in T.A.S.J., xxvii. p. 56.