Japan and the Japanese illustrated . 1 =? c c 104 LIFE IN JAPAN. religion, and contains an altar consecrated to Quannon. The buildings and the grovesof the sacred place occupy a group of lulls, which rise above the southern enclosureof Sourouga, with its vast basins of limpid water surrounded by trees and flowers, andits myriads of COLLECTORS FOB THE KAMI TEMILES. The political system of the Taikouns did ncrt disdain clerical support for theirbudding dynasty. But as Iy(jyas and his successors had nothing to hope from thegood will of the IMikados, they conciliated the favour of the most
Japan and the Japanese illustrated . 1 =? c c 104 LIFE IN JAPAN. religion, and contains an altar consecrated to Quannon. The buildings and the grovesof the sacred place occupy a group of lulls, which rise above the southern enclosureof Sourouga, with its vast basins of limpid water surrounded by trees and flowers, andits myriads of COLLECTORS FOB THE KAMI TEMILES. The political system of the Taikouns did ncrt disdain clerical support for theirbudding dynasty. But as Iy(jyas and his successors had nothing to hope from thegood will of the IMikados, they conciliated the favour of the most influential sectsof Buddhism by endowing bonze-liouses and temples, which surpass the most sumptuoussacred edifices of Kioto. The munificence of the Taikouns with regard to Buddhismhas, however, added nothing to the reverence professed at Yeddo for the ministers of BUDLUIST PRIESTS IN YEDDO. 1!)) that itligioii. It ajijicais to mc tliat, in all the diverse classes of society in the capital,the position of the bonzes is analogous to that of the Popes of the Greek Church
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