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INTRODUCTION
OLD JAPAX
how
now
is
so
common an
becoming
hidden
forgotten,
that
two
years,
score
whose legends
and
eradicated
or
one
expression
easily
are
beliefs
popular
influence
forget
from the
us
separates
the
by
may
of
fast
Western
civilization.
manner
in
of
Netsuke,
subjects,
and perhaps
the
Inro,
d'art,
however,
articles
Tsuba,
Prints,
of
of
them
endears
elucidation
etc.,
which
recorded
happily
or
attire,
to
one
for a
illustrating
number
of years
given
special
this
to
the
exquisite
Japanese Works of
the
of
host
chief
difficulties,
from
attention to Japanese
his
enduring
their decoration a
in
embody
books,
and
photographs
noting
carefully
all
stray
of
collectors
forms
use,
daily
an
in
also
the
which
of
workmanship
Art.
of
many
are,
w as
r
from
illustrated
his
own
with
sketches,
specimens.
grow wider
as
the author's
knowledge
followed
similar
plan,
finally
vii
increased.
who
in
impressed
many
upon
cases
the
had
them-
author
the
LEGEND
was
the
to
Japonists,
the
briefly
genesis
hope
of
the
present
from
centuries,
that
the
secured
admitted that at
the
upon them
humorous side, and
of
collectors
pretty
style
of
of
this
their
was
in
articles
use,
and
of
that
the
bulk
the
be
minute
or
quaint
than
details
its
mignavdise
on
almost
of
taste
interest,
many
must
it
their
for
most
Collections were
which
so
of
now
prints,
for
For
hunters.
interesting
of
perfection
attractive graces
influence
the
to
the
curios,
view.
of
the
pieces,
with
level
and
the
beginning
the
is
attire,
very
for
This
led
curio
as
them
offer
in
American
more
looked
from
when
surprise,
and
European
by
to
which
arms,
deficiencies,
useful.
prove
might
they
many
and
cuvieux,
suggestion
volume.
conscious of
iVun
notes
these
in
World
The Western
of
was
this
Although
bulky compilation.
decided to edit
finally
ART.
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was
it
his
of publishing
desirability
IN
Netsuke,
Inro,
of
flooded.
paintings
and
fittings,
were
and sword
owners
them
for
was a
in
precious
metals,
although
this
very
richness
why
and above
all,
in
in
of
to
extent
Japanese
truer
treatment,
to
which
collections.
mens
To some
this explains
material
of
is
in
it
was
to
be
Now, however,
the older speci-
a marked tendency to
collect
of
Japanese
Art
viii
has
been
the
aim
of
large
LEGEND
number
often
of
and
in
the
with
mental designs,
their
Few
d'art,
exerted
attraction
the
to
the
of
the symbolism
subjects depicted,
can
however
inability
to
some
scene.
or
intention,
name
to
embraced
field
is
from
the
history
theatrical
or
Taoist fame,
jects,
treated
or such
the
the
life
the
not
artist's
vastness
Buddhistic
or
mythical
by the
Shintoist
people,
the
of
scenes
symbolism,
artist
the
or
suggestive simplicity as
to
jostling
of
romance, fairy-lore,
and
sages
magicians
contribute to form
all
understand
The
meaning
who have
found,
represented.
the
by
of both
plays,
hidden
the
best
the
of
of
life
personages
the
really
collectors
them
upon
composition,
be
of
too
treasures,
confess
all
and
scarce,
exhaustive monographs.
in
Ob jets
lovers of Japanese
of
selection
are
to
is
it
ART.
JAPANESE
writers,
inadequate,
IN
craftsman
with
command
the
of
of sub-
admiration,
or
all
yet
is
also to
development,
or
if
Buddhism
to
Buddha and
and holy
decorative compositions
ment
of
to
of
and
and
pictorial
owe
Art
military
life
from
the
the
utilisation
non-religious
their
disciples,
With
to
The
figures
glyptic
his
of sacred invocations
step
its
paintings of the
attention
that
of
floral
which
to
which
ornament and
there
character,
chasing
was
but
one
artistic
treatment
were
committed
ix
to
by
artists
educated
in
LEGEND
ancient
lore,
same time
the
to
pupils
methods
Often
copies.
most
In
of
an
cases
the
for
given
Hasegawa Toun.
many
for instance
Elton
in
belongs the
Morikuni, in
share
largest
fifty
of
the early
literature
this
volumes
almost
every
information
gigantic
of
production
and
eighteenth century,
for
we
Carvers,
to
been
books
earlier
animals,
domestic
utensils,
his
who
followers,
by
did
of
drawing,
of Morikuni's
works,
minimized
Hokusai,
came
trees, plants,
armour,
weapons,
illustrated
amongst
century
of
century
subject
sources
onwards,
the eighteenth
of
years
the
common.
are fairly
To Tachibana
of
Hokan (1688)
1670
when
pages,
became from
books
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Chinese
of
text
explanatory
for
colouring
proper
at
which
models
as
exposition
consisting of but a
illustration
being
the
to
books,
lessons
intended
merely
devoted
were
directions
painting,
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of
moral
or
traditions
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works
these
and
follow,
of
the
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left
survey
of
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artisan
of
had
done
what Morikuni
in
the
the
late
for
the
previous generation.
The development
productions, even
of the
Ukioye school
though we
see
in
of
them masterpieces
of
drawing,
glorification
of
imaginative
efforts,
professional
beauties.
heroes
and
the
besides
the
immortalisation
dissemination
of
of
colour
classes,
intro-
traditions,
the
actors,
the
playwright's
geishas
and
LEGEND
we wish
If
JAPANESE ART.
IX
to
find
we must
turn
prevent the
Japan
to
details
and meaning
and
the beliefs of
of
baffled
his
in
belief
in
exploded
when
the
younger
will
interpret
find
affects
evasive
of
the
that
as
the scattered
old
for
his
credits
inquirer
The
will
difficult
which
answers,
contempt
generation
the
of
ignorance
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superstitions.
it
as
may
this
do
they
their
upon
keeping
havoc,
greater
limited.
but
to
real
actual
however,
when
Europe
and
editions
greater evil
was
still
earthquakes
Japan,
destroyed
the
as
in
many
from
in
books,
folk-lore
gather
and
store,
in
and
fire
the
certain
persons.
fair
proportionately
necessarily
shape of curio
of
dealers,
material
packing
condition
Editions
the
were
they
not
illustrated
early
like
the text
of
in
wrecking
were
blocks
bestowed
care
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creating
wood
the
and presented
ment
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come,
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with
yet
life,
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buildings
flimsy
up,
repeatedly
are
or
attitude,
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is
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conceal
either
friends
day
regret
fashions
inquirer
ways,
catastrophes,
books,
the
keep
In
safe
to
for
thirst
its
predecessors.
by
quest
suspicion
societies
its
and
traditions
ignorance,
by a
of the
prints that
the
of
loss
and studiously
the mark,
shoots
total
generation, in
Much
our information.
for
and
to these books
is
it
or to
artist,
to
will be readily understood that the task of the seeker after enlightenis
available outside
some
of
the
great national
libraries,
of congratulation that
besides
course of publication,
the compilation of
xi
and
fact hardly
in
it
is
now
matter
now
in
reprinting
LEGEND
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many
with
as
cases,
prints,
with unwarrantable
reprints
and
details
who
were
doubtless
how
of
and
Utamaro,
for
Morikuni, or
of
carvers
themselves
of
lines
reproduction,
Hokusai
draughtsmen
the
number
of
is
of
Chinnan, illustrated
in
the
instance,
eighteenth
mean
no
merit,
in
show
which
specimens
representing also
of
a Tsuba
of
for
of the
illustration.
of
But
number
of
and chasers
The prototype
influence.
of
collection
collection,
Hokusai's
of
of less
artists,
the
slavishly
purposely selected
whole
licence.
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followed
the
are
the
often
instance
Yosai,
century,
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Kojitsu of Kikuchi
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obtaining
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number
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it
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literature,
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M. B.
made
work, has
this
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and
in
displayed
Mr.
Later,
but
collection,
artists.
every collector.
trations
to
key
the
in
representatives
as
regarded
and
scarce,
of
secondary
in
main subject
the
to
importance
of
the book.
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present
to
refer
"Legend
in
not
subjects
Japanese
Art"
has
illustrated,
to
strictly
no endeavour
is
been
be
and,
described
selected
for
as
the
to
deal
although
legends,
sake
of
brevity.
works
of
the
types
of
with
art,
common
require
the
the
divinities
use
to
of
exception
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special
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be
of
shrines,
easily
etc.,
common
which
named,
and
works
rather
Buddhist
because of
the
large
in
in small
in
the
case
that
of
rarer
large
number
of
space
types
met with, whilst the Rakans have been more rapidly dealt with, as some of
them defy all attempt at identification.
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facilitate research
LEGEND
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name
by
finding
most
the
of
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which
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of
few
sources,
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particular
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carefully
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in
this
to
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their
preference,
to
size
full
reproduction.
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now
treated
subjects
manner
it
in
is,
whole
together representative
of
the
pieces
illustrating
collectors
of
series
of
life
the
of
shows
the
results
are
private collections
it
is
is
chiefly
able
to
due
to
the
present
and
legends
the
far
their
the richest
kindness
of
published for
in
search
in
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of
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large
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is
selection
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indebted
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to
It
Mr.
is
But
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type,
and
who
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his
most
pleasant
specimen
L.
contains
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author
collectors
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an
to
from
Behrens,
Seymour
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Museum,
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illustrations
first
must
su<*h
British
collectors
get
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episodes,
subjects.
illustrations
private
series
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for
to
attempted
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now
no
satis-
altogether
whom
that
large
historical
people.
systematic
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subjects
interesting
by
of
have
however,
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in
field
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fact,
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in
collection
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extra-
Trower,
LEGEND
attention
to
selection
of
IN
ART.
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subjects,
it
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into
Japanese
To
Mr.
P.
of Japanese books,
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of
pieces
Thanks
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from
for
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to
reproduction,
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Tomkinson
and
furniture
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Monsieur M. Bing
Harding
Smith,
Victoria
and
Mr.
E.
of
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in
du
Conservateur
number
large
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of
Alexander, Professor
C.
illustrations
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H.
Paris,
R.B.A.,
Albert
Deshayes,
select
prints
to
Mr.
J.
the
Museum,
to
C.
Henry
Hawkshaw,
authorities
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Musee
collection
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Museum,
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to
Professor
who allowed
interesting
sword
of
selected,
M.I.C.E.,
the
of
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Mr.
F.R.S.,
Mr.
to
who
Michael
Mr.
W.
Norman
K.
Mr.
by
Den,
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also
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precis
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netsnke
and
interest,
catalogue of
descriptive
the
to
the
Gardien
chef,
Mr.
tensive
J.
stocks,
to
all
of
his
Japanese friends
who have
helped
him
with
only helped
which
his
him with
S.
Tanaka and
number
of
Mr.
Kato Shozo
translations
and
with
commentaries
xv
it
went
to press,
and
LEGEND
this revision considerably
by
works
the
of
old
of
art
IN
its
improved
his
ART.
JAPANESE
accuracy.
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his
this
have been
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to
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to
them
from
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contents
on
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about,
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to
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them,
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make public
in
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interest
he took in
There
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hopes
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his
memoranda.
rare
of
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Readers
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the
this
the
in
poems printed
freely
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be
illustrating
unique
a
pieces
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custom,
of
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of
duced by permission
the
collection
figure
on the
of
the
back
of
to
our
late
M.
S.
The
representing Toto
Tenjin
(Sugawara
Michizane,
q.v.),
xvi
in
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
vu
LIST OF COLOUR
KEY TO
PLATES
INITIALS
IN
XIX
XXI
xxin
JAPANESE ART
BIBLIOGRAPHY
42 3
JAPANESE INDEX
441
OF COLOUR PLATES
LIST
ABE NO YASUNA, from a
series
(Author's Collection)
GHOSTS
series
.......
by Kuniyoshi
in the Kisokaido
Yoshitoshi
(Author's Collection)
Kunisada
of
from
in
Tokaido
.......
......
........
........
the
of
series
KOGO,
Baiishu
from
Takasago,
courtesy of Messrs.
OXOYE
by
Hiroshige,
Matsu
HAIOI,
in
no
,,
48
,,
60
,,
96
,,
120
Hiroshige
24
Garbutt
(Matt
Collection)
KKIU,
Frontispiece
the
series
Yurai
(by
Yamanaka)
Messrs.
Yamanaka)
xo
NAKAMARO,
Hiakku nin
Isshiu
from
[no
Uchf]
by
(by
Kuniyoshi,
courtesy
of
in
148
the
Messrs.
182
Yamanaka)
..........
,,
HIUSHIXGURA, from
a print by
(Wilson Crewdson's
Kuniyoshi
(Matt
224
Garbutt
256
Collection)
xix
LEGEND
IN
ART.
JAPANESE
(Kato
Kuniyoshi
Shozo
To face page 266
Collection)
..........
SHUNKWAM,
from
by
Kuniyoshi
in
the
Ogura
.......
.......
........
OTO
the
TACHIBAXA
Toto
HIME,
Kuiseki
from
Dzukushi
\_Azuma
by
Hiroshige,
Mori
no
no
,,
,,
,,
in
Kaji]
YORITOMO,
from
Trower Collection)
by
Toyokuni
xx
II.
(H.
Seymour
,,
KEY TO INITIALS
OWING
full
the
to
of
exigences
names
of the
A.B.
B.
B.M.
has
been
impossible
M.E.
M.G.
M.Gt.
Bing Collection.
Museum
to
the plates
in
give
;
in
Initials
Author's Collection.
British
found
it
space
M.T.
(Frank's
Musee d'Ennery.
Matt Garbutt Collection.
Musee Guimet.
Michael Tomkinson Collection.
Collection).
C.P.P.
O.C.R.
F.H.E.
P.M.S.
P.
G.
G.H.N.
G.J.
T.
Gillot Collection.
By courtesy of G. H.
H.S.T.
H. Seymour
T.L.
V.A.M.
Collec-
H.J.R.
Henry
I.C.E.
J.
Clarke
W.C.
Reiss Collection.
Hawkshaw
Collec-
tion.
Norman
J.N.C.
J.
K.B.I.
K.S.
Sir
Tre-
Esq.
Trevor
Lawrence
Col-
Victoria
South Kensington.
tion.
J.C.H.
courtesy of James
lection.
Lee, Esq.
T rower
By
gaskis,
G.H.L.
M. Saltarel Collection.
W.C.A.
W.
W.H.S.
W.L.B.
C. Alexander Collection.
tion
Collie Collection.
Y.
By
courtesy of Messrs.
naka.
xxi
Yama-
IN
personages.
In
many
own
identification of a figure
little
wrought
artists
European
wrapped
ever, the
metals, to adopt
in
some
artists
fanciful style,
of
The clothing
of the subject
much
in
wood,
in
the
in ivory, or
same way
as
armour, or
as far at
ages,
many
guidance,
of the face,
no
any
rate as their
for the
otherwise
his heroes.
A
and
word may be
plants,
to
which
some
symbolism
much
originally
attached,
but
which
Chinese pictures,
LEGEND
a
Another
that
Deer
the
that
and
Snake
the
of
"
with
messengers
Kumano
of
their
Egg
and
Myth
association
respective
Dove
the
the
God
the
of
"messenger"
God
which
in
emblems,
"
the
is
the
of
of
group
the
of
ART.
JAPANESE
then
Bishamon.
associated with
is
reminiscent
(Tamo),
jewel
IN
of
Deities
for
to
strict,
instance,
the
Kasuga Shrine;
consecrated
is
more
is
Crow,
Hachiman, the
Monkey to the Sanno Shrines of Ohonamochi, the Fox to Inari, and the
White Serpent to Benten.
Horary or Zodiacal characters, in the form
of
also
are
animals,
one,
is
but
an
information
sufficiently
contained
in
this
and
work,
form
to
ALGU/E
and
Festival,
AMAKURIKARA,
ANCHOR
with
sent
of
compendium
that
hoped
the
has been
it
used
in
the
New
Year's
gifts.
FUDO Mio O.
See
See TAKARAMONO.
(IKARI).
an exhaustive
use.
vesiculosus,
ficus
KURIKARA.
or
follows
The
KOBU).
(see
is
it
ABACUS. KAKKEI.
AIR CASTLE (Mirage).
Eve
made
been
has
attempt
as
list
Emblem
of
Security,
safety.
,,
MITSUYE.MON, brother of
ANCHOR
TOMOE GOZEN.
GRAPNEL,
or
thrown
by a warrior.
TAIRA TOMOMORI.
ARM,
cut,
with or without
ARROW,
,,
,,
in
the eye.
in
river.
and
letter
RIKO
:
TOWOKO
shot in a pot,
JOSAKEI.
YOSHIIYE.
bird).
striking a boat.
striking fan.
ARROWS cut
See WATANABE.
oni.
See
HIME.
See
HONMA MAGOSHIRO.
See TAMETOMO.
NASU NO
YOICHI.
OYAMADA TAKAIYE.
LEGEND
ARMOUR,
thrown
IN
the waves.
in
YOSHIIYE.
breaking.
DAG
BAG
BAG
of precious
the winds.
of
fireflies,
BALES,
BAMBOO.
fidelity,
fp
alluded
means
which
in
O-Ei
the
era,
and
DAIKOKU.
Chiku
(Shaen).
*ft)
emblematic of
New
See
ko).
node,
Year's
winter
virtue,
and
the
also
to
virtues
the branches of
Eve.
Moso.
See DARUMA,
in
(q.v.).
to
Kadomatsu on
the
rats,
Bamboo
or
an allusion
as
perhaps
the
In
to.
HOTEI,
SOXKO
Usually with
DAIKOKU.
CHIEH)
(Sets//,
reading under a
constancy,
See
Man
of rice.
TOYEMMEI.
Takaramono.
things,
of
ART.
JAPANESE
KANSHOSHI, SHACHIUSHO.
Emblem
(Take-ni-Suzume),
of
friendship.
less
known
Sennins.
BAT
treated
legs
as a subject for
netsuke,
BEAR.
hunter,
See
KINTOKI
BEARD,
(or
in
prosperity,
Story
of
the
ungrateful
(Kojiki).
KWANYU.
SAITO SANEMORI ^f $!
ornamentally
BEES, swarming
fortune,
Lucky emblem.
KUMAGAI NAOZANE.
BEES
Good
(Kawahori or Komorii).
GAN
JIN.
KASENYO.
*$t
is
also called
XXV
LEGEND
BELL.
BENKEI
TAWARA TODA.
BELL, rubbed by a
after
JAPANESE ART.
IN
priest
(Suzu
Aral}.
improvement.
BELL
(Grelot.)
BELLS
CHARMS;
JITTOKU
(Broom)
also
see
BOAR.
OLD WOMAN
HIROARI
See
OF
TAKASAKO,
See
(Uba).
See SEIOBO,
BLOWING
UZUME, SAMBASO.
BIRD, Supernatural.
BIWA.
TAWARA TODA.
on a handle.
(jingling)
BESOM
See
See DANKA.
priests.
OKIO
NITTAN NO SHIRO
SOJOBO (TENGU)
YAMATO KANSUKE.
BOAR
and
BOAT, Man
BOAT, Man
FLOWERS,
in
or
Soso
Lespedeza,
TEIZENPUKU
See YOSHITSUNE,
leaping.
BOW,
in
the
HANREI.
NORITSUNE.
YOICHI MUNETAKA.
See ANTOKU.
See YOSHITSUNE.
water.
,,
SATSUSHUKEN
in
mouth
the
Sasaki
and
also
Atsumori
on
River.
the Uji
BOW
7
,
poked into a
and
tree trunk.
ARROW,
YORIYOSHI.
JINGO.
See TAMETOMO.
BOW
rock.
most warriors.
TAWARA
TODA, MINAMOTO NO YORIMASA and INO HAYATA (killing the Nuye) RAIKO.
BOWL
(begging),
,,
,,
with flowers.
with
Buddhistic emblem
FUKUHIAKU
it
is
dragon.
called
HANDAKA
Teppatsu.
xxvi
CHEN Tu.
NAKASAINA SONJA.
SONJA.
CHINNAN.
As a
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
URASHIMA TARO.
BOX, empty.
See TONGUE CUT SPARROW.
BOX, with goblins escaping.
See ABE NO SEIMEI.
BOX, with mice.
BRASERO
(Kanaye),
,,
KIYATAKA
especially
also
Nearly
HATSURA
TASHA
SHIBA SHOJO.
AMA
SHOKUJO,
xo GA\VA.
KOBODAISHI, and
the poets.
all
TANABATA.
leaf.
HOSSO.
or
(Fly)
a.
Chinese writing on
RAKAXS
(ARHATS),
but
CHIUDAHANTAKA SOXJA,
and
the
all
TASHA,
DARUMA.
BUFFALO, BULL
BUTTERFLIES.
See CHOSHIUKA.
CASH.
See ZENI
CASTAGNETS.
CATS.
See
of
KENSHI.
or
See DRAGON.
TEKKAI
HIEN YUAN
Tsi.
See SOKOKUKIU.
article,
CAVE,
KENSU
SAJI,
perseverance.
See CHARMS.
USHINOTOKI MAIRI.
HANASAKA Jui
also
that
CAULDRON,
ZEX SECT.
(see Ox).
^"J"
J^
See NITTAN
with Goddess.
with spider
by
See MIKENJAKU.
with heads.
Fuji,
in
fa
killed
tails
xo SHIRO.
WATANABE.
MORINAGA.
and prisoner
BISHAMON
TAWARA TODA.
CENTIPEDE.
;
CHARRIOT,
in
foreigners
charriots,
the
in the
Todo
KOTEI
sky.
Isf
two wheels
Kimmo
CHARCOAL
of
OHO
country
)}
which are
(Sumt),
symbol
of
see
who
like
go
in
everywhere
paddles."
They
prosperity,
SEIOBO
SHINANSHA,
"
are
(Go ban};
OGURI HANGWAN.
xxvii
flying
GOMO.
See also
CHA No Yu.
CHECKBOARD
also
figured
deers, see
of changelessness.
SATO TAPANOBU.
LEGEND
CHESTNUT,
Festival
IN
New
Year's Eve
name
Kachiguri,
dried,
ART.
JAPANESE
their
upon
CHESTNUT, MORTAR
Made
left
an
is
The
flower
of
CIRCLE,
is
(Kiku),
of
the
prayers,"
rope
prisoners
only.
rope which
the Imperial
is
See KIKUJIDO.
this
"forwarded"
is
variety
petals
Purity.
"one million
for
placing them
toothache.
holding
pilgrims,
thus
placed
the sixteen
emblematic
the Crab.
DAIGO.
are
they
they prevent
CHRYSANTHEMUM
badge.
as
insult,
Enoki wood,
of
Go
Monkey and
CHOPSTICKS, must
the
See
tooth-marked.
,,
on
and WASP.
is
See Fox.
like
a rosary,
man
whilst
ben
the
pilgrims pray.
CIRCLE,
tablets
of children, the
KAKUSHIGI
CLOAK.
-^
|$
JH
See
(in
illustrations
CLOUDS,
of
figures
HAGOROMO
monkey on
,,
CLOVES
See
carrying
offspring.
TENNIN
OTA DOKWAN
also
met with
in
Moso, KOJIMO.
SEIOBO, CHODORIO,
of his
knowledge
on
officers
,,
two
throne, with
the
testing
KAKUREMINO
See
Feather
many
Emperor on a
RYUKO.
See SONGOKU.
COMETS,
in
the
are portents
of
preceding war,
calamity,
famines,
or
earth-
quakes.
CRAB.
See
CRANE, Emblem
~
of
longevity,
HEIKE
KAM
SHIMAMURA DANJO.
attribute of SEIOBO,
JUROJIN,
FUKURO-
Circle of people in various costumes ; at one end, outside the circle, a man with a soroban seems to
at the other end, also outside, other individual.
;
Subject shown on a Kozuka in Mr. Dehren's
count them
Collection, figured in
'H A.
-ft
xxviii
LEGEND
TOBOSAKU,
KUJIU,
CRANE,
ISETSU
YoRITOMO,
OSHIKIO,
KODOKWA
CONCH SHELL,
emblem
CONES, FIR.
Yamabushi.
the
of
and
Jo
ToYU,
TEIREII.
paper.
CORAL
WASOBIOYE,
JoFUKU,
KAXGAI Sennin
UBA, KOHAKU.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
SENTARO.
See BENKEI.
emblem
(Sangoju),
of
rarity
ramono.
COWRY
or seven
five,
CROWS,
by means
A.D.,
is
croaking,
two
,,
CYMBALS,
DEER, or
the
in
magic
an omen
of
misfortune.
man
in
boat.
of
spell
and an
of
order
Chao
to
go
days.
sky,
emblem
Stag,
of
JUROJIX,
longevity.
TOBOSAKU,
MAPLE,
HORSE, MOHAKUDO.
tDEER,
,,
DOG.
a deer skin.
in
boy hiding
HAXASAKA
See
TSUXEMOTO.
by warrior.
killed
FUSE
Jui.
EXSHI.
HIME
DOG HUNTING
IZEXSHUN,
RYUAN.
DOVE.
HACHIMAX.
Two, above
,,
DOOR,
DRAGON
ASAHIXA SABURO
See
(q.v.).
KAN NO Koso
SOXJA.
in
tree.
YORITOMO.
HANK WAI.
under arm.
breaking.
,,
tree,
BASHIKO,
(in
Wada
Kassen).
HANDAKA
TAIO SEXXIX (with musical instrument), CHOSOYU. KIKUCHI JAKWA, CHOSHIX Jix.
RASHINJIN KOJINRAN, who every evening returned
RIHAKU, T\ISHIN o FUJIN.
home
to his
wife
five
Court on dragon.
KIGA,
SHOSHI.
DRAGON
AND
DRAGON,
DEER
in sky,
appearing to HOKIOSHA.
in
Clouds,
across
FUJI
in
river,
awaiting the
emblem
fall
xxix
of a
of
success
in
life.
LEGEND
on
tree,
On
through.
of
the
Buddhist
by means
cliff,
cliff,
DRAGON",
when
Dragon
the
fly
killed
having
of
DRUM.
(Man
in
EAGLE.
or
ELEPHANT.
emblem
Emblem
carried
FAIRY COAT
fly
stone
of conjugal
See
in
his
MUKO
dress.
with
fidelity.
ETSU SHO.
wisdom.
of
Tsuba,
See
by Yasuchika,
commemoration
in
away by a
Finding a fan
era.
See KOKUSEXXYA.
robber.
TAISHUX.
KYOCHI.
(HAGOROMO).
See DREAMS.
Nasubi.
FRUIT,
and boy.
,,
or be
of
story
OGEI.
Commonly met on
ELEPHANT,
fortune,
the
to
COCK ox DRUM.
FANS.
allusion
See ROBEX.
EGG PLANT
Buddha.
Gadfly,
,,
Bf
$jlj
of
with
himself),
sky.
(Mandarin),
,,
sea."
See RAIJIN
DUCKS, two
horse
common
WONINRAN.
with
the
to
parallel
gnawing
illustration
him,
watching
life
is
DROWNING
Anchor, TOMOMORI
of
perils
Emblem
(Akidzii),
are
tiger
devil
connection
in
of
about
changed into
DRAGON FLY
Also,
killing,
Staff
of
or
parable
ART.
JAPANESE
robbers,
"between the
expression,
IN
in
the
finder
roadway
will
is
an omen
soon become a
of
impending good
man
of
importance,
ennobled.
fan attached to a branch of
emblematic
of
the
Bamboo
carried
on
the
shoulder
See
was
Bakin's
Okoma.
The
fan
is
common
attribute.
XXX
feather fan.
LEGEND
FERN LEAVES
terity
New
the
a man's breath.
,,
in
,,
sometimes
the
TEKKAI.
SONGOKU.
monkey's breath.
BAISHI
of
story
Eve ceremony.
Year's
in
FIGURE,
Sometimes mean
out
an
of
to divide his
had
body
on
number
into a
of
his
Danchu,
(Sennin on
Pyre).
(Beacons).
See T'AKI.
KARU
TAIKOBO.
FLAMES, emblem
FLOWERS,
in
and
planted,
alms bowl.
See
See
purity.
CHENG Tu
a writing brush.
of
FLUTE, "Pan
Pipes."
of
endowed with
ninety-four.
See Jo and
or
UBA.
KENSHI, SHIYEI
FUDO Mio
FUKUHIAKU
O.
CHOHAKUTAN.
FLUTE.
tree
JISSHUDO.
wisdom and
end
the
of persons, each
KINKO, KENSU
EBISU,
(female).
at the
,,
after
who,
YOKO.
See
of
(RosEi),
travels
FIRE
dream
grew
on a rock with a tame tiger, and
it
Baishi lived
was able
He
acorn.
man
SENNIN,
growing
ART.
symbolic of exuberant pos-
are
(Urajiro or Moromoki),
JAPANESE
IN
his fude.
ifp f$j
In later years
SHOSHI,
FLUTE PLAYERS:
FUJIWARA KANEAKI.
Noble
of
the
period
man
CHORAN
FOX.
Go Daigo Tenno,
whilst
a wolf-headed
listens.
Once played
SAI.
dressed
front
tree,
of
in
the
flute
at
night,
and
demon,
of his
house.
xxxi
LEGEND
FRIENDSHIP,
NIKUTAX
side
In
the
of
was sealed
friendship,
in
^0,
^j
fast
JAPANESE ART.
IN
was
this
breast,
mode
also
of apologising
to
for
expose one
an
KINCHO
called
FROG.
was
this
JJ.
are a
word.
See that
FUNERALS
offence.
a good one
frequently represented,
GO.
See GAMES.
as phalli.
,,
Man
playing
Go
whilst
being bled
Kwanyu
(figured
in
Yehon
Yaso,
Kitao Kosuisai).
Ujikawa, of
GOATS.
GOHEI,
make
are
Gods
to the
GOOSE,
used in the
Jfj|,
YEN
was customary to
Year's Eve Festival.
it
New
was emblematic
of the Chinese
of the
GOOSE,
,,
,,
Flight of Geese.
GOURD.
SHORIKEN.
of longevity.
See HIDEYOSHI.
(the hundred).
KOKO.
shaped Pot.
HAGOROMO
HALBERT.
;
(q.v.),
Particular
emblem
one
of
KWANYU and
of
BISHAMON,
KUMASAKA
HAMMER OF DAIKOKU,
is
See SOBU.
Emblem
GOURD
CHOHAN
See YOYUKI.
of the
Takaramono
emblem
treasures.
xxxii
of diligence,
it
is
called Tsuchi,
and
LEGEND
HARE
(USAGI).
HARP.
JAPANESE ART.
IX
KEIKO
SHOKKIUKUN.
with one
string.
HAT,
TOBA
SAIGIO,
big.
of invisibility
leaning of which
HAT,
onical
obscure.
is
also
HEAD,
,,
in
a cauldron.
of
HIMONO.
HOE.
ambulating
song
all
HORSE
KAKKIO, TAIZAXROFU.
Jui,
Onis.
HORSE,
White-.
a
of
See SAXSO
that
decree
to
She
effect,
Ti, 210
Horses.
HOSHI.
could
Hwang
HORSE, on a Go table.
playing Go with
Eight
SAISHIGIOKU.
horse
that
HIDARI
See BATEISEKI.
stone.
and STAG.
decided
SAIWO
KIOSEI.
Hoof
,,
IKKAKU.
(q.v.).
GEXKAI
NGORO.
Ki.
HERRIXG, IWASHI.
HANASAKA
Yu
See
saddle.
ieign
the
by
MIKEXJAKU.
woman, on
See
HORNS,
afted
worn
more
also actors; a
Yomiuri.
oilers,
ice
See CHIXXAX.
in the
form,
Oxo xo KOMACHI.
(SOSHA),
,,
after the
HAKUGA,
be called
emblematic
stag,
of
and
fool,
vice-versa,
foolish
and
thing,
B.C.).
See OGURI
master.
his
See
BOKU
HAXGWAN.
Story of the Chinese HANZAN.
(MUM-WANG).
subject
for
artistic
,,
Stopped by a woman.
,,
Stopped by a man.
,,
See
Ko
xxxiii
work.
KUGUTSUME KAXEKO.
U.
soul.
LEGEND
HOWO,
HOHO
PHCENIX or
or
JAPANESE
IN
ART.
(q.v.),
IDOLS, Burning.
IRIS, emblem of
JEWEL.
See TANKWA.
Victory.
Precious Jewel, or
Tama
or Hojiu no
(q.v.),
Tama, symbolic
FUKU
JIN,
especially
Takaramono.
part of the
BOSATSU.
the form
In
of
HANDAKA
KADOMATSU
O-Ei
era,
Eve
in
from
and
young
KOKUZO
(see
by Jizo
PEACOCK),
ANKISEI, SHYUCHU.
pine branches
the
Plum
branches of
of
originally
tree
it
is
placed on
and
from the
Bamboo
of
whilst the
Shinto,
the Sakaki.
See IKKIU
in
New
of
viz.
KANAYE.
which
to
tree,
made
TREE),
of
components,
fidelity
PIXE
(GATE
later the
front
SONJA,
carried
ball,
See ALGU^E.
JIMBASSO.
plucked
a crystal
Year's
all
the
its
virtue
often replaced
SAIGIO.
GOSHISHO; Kou.
KARASHISHI, and
peonies,
emblem
of
regal power.
KIRIN.
KOBAN,
buried,
KOBAN
NI
HAKO,
KOMBU,
or
in
a mortar.
or
Koban
See
in
HAXA SAKA
Chest,
emblem
Jui.
of
plenty
one o
Takaramono.
or
KOTO
is
the
three
See AKOYA.
BUKI.
The
character Jiu
||,
meaning long
art.
life,
and which
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
was
the
of
offerings
LILIES.
on
PAX FEI
flower above
roots
its
consecrated
LION.
the
to
or
The emblem
the
fell
legend that
love.
in
flower
the
forms a part
It
moon.
harvest,
YIN).
(Fr.i
See LOTUS.
LILIES, water.
to
the eigth,
of
ijth night
See
KAI.
with
of purity,
the
by
mud
beautiful
its
which
in
grow
dead.
See KARASHISHI.
LIZARD,
NEWT
See
water.
when taken
to be a love philtre
under CHARMS.
internally,
Its
scattered
or
of
emblematic
of
hard-hearted maid.
the
LOBSTER, owing
honourable old age.
Eve
It
to
its
is
part
body
being
bent
double,
of
in
is
the
New
Year's
Festival.
LONGEVITY,
is
tail
of
of
weeds
the
Crane
the
GOURD
of
the
emblems
of
the
are
PEACH
the
Chinese origin.
of
which
Plum
the
is
added
is
Some
composed
for
beauty.
Longevity
in
is
further personified
groups or singly, of
in
art
MIURA xo OSUKE,
URASHIMA TARO (with the Tortoise and box), Lu WEN, and the two old
pine trees of Takasago with their genii, Jo and UBA, sweeping the pine
the
Peach), JOFUKU
needles with
and
besom and
Sp often repeated
in
SAIGIO
rake.
many
LOTUS FLOWER.
See
WASOBIOYE
it
Finally,
forms.
the
(with
is
Crane),
See MANZAI.
Emblematic
of
purity,
XXXV
FUGEN
LEGEND
SEITAKA DOJI, KWANNOX.
the white lotus
MAGATAMA
MAKIMONO,
JUROJIX,
is
attached
the
to
two Rakans
MANTIS.
It
is
strung
up.
A makimono
the usual
also
is
the attribute
is
it
or
SCROLL
attribute
of
(open).
is
emblematic
of courage.
"Even
MAPLE
See IZANAMI.
Takaramono.
the
of
or
single
jewels,
emblematic of wisdom
(dragon wheel).
or Dosatsus
MAKIMONO,
is
treasures
the
of
stone
Japanese regalia.
or roll book,
and one
of
the
the sacred
of
Buddhas
the
of
death.
of
claw-shaped
(q.v.),
ART.
JAPANESE
an attribute
is
emblematic
is
It
IX
16.
VI.,
at
set
the sharp
of
autumn
also
with Tori
in
back-
MAPLE LEAVES
to
him
in
when
(Iro),
man by
sent to a
this
is
MAT, on
MILKY WAY.
MIRROR
truth
and
or
it
in
of
JIXGORI
two
At
bone.
A woman
no avail
MATSUYAMA.
will
MISOGI, a bamboo
the
split
once tried
at
the
is
also
of
top,
last
day
of
but her
the same.
the
xxxvi
said of a
the
in
she
the
same
invocation.
See SANSO
Emblematic
morning a mirror
the experiment, and seeing her
o'clock
MONKEY.
maple leaves;
economy was
of
xo GAWA.
HIDARI
See
calcined
image
AMA
a woman's soul.
of
sword
See
(q.v.).
fire
see KORE.MOCHI.
waves.
the
the
jilted,
conveyed
meaning being
the maple leaves in autumn.
his lady-love,
sixth
month,
in.
It
as
an
LEGEND
MOON, THIRD DAY
moon
the
of
crescent
lunar
month
shape
it
this
its
the
is
(flower)
MULBERRY TREE,
because
perhaps
because of
its
of
ladies.
RIUTO.
KASEXKO, who
clothed
is
the
in
Rishis.)
Its
height.
Xo Hokaso, Rishogun a
the
In
Kuwa
eyebrows of
generic attribute of
the
is
diminutive
its
of
attribute
bows
for
armed
warrior
no
INSTRUMENTS.
MUSICAL
each
of
day
is
resiliency.
third
leaves.
the
MUGWORT
The
YAMANAKA SHIRANOSUKE.
is
MOON, man
See
(Mikatsuki).
name
its
gives
JAPANESE ART.
IN
See
FLUTE,
BIXVA,
see
SEIOBO,
THE
KOTO;
HAKUGA.
KOMEI).
NAILS
When
(finger).
foreshadow
gifts
white
NAILS, driven
in
NANTEEN
Plant and
in
the
finger
nails
they
number.
tree.
driven in a stone.
,,
on
occur
spots
BENKEI.
are
Berries
emblematic
of
better
fortune.
NET.
Man
NET.
NOSE
fished
in a net.
JISSHUDO.
(long).
HIKO NO MIKOTO.
February
means
destruction
by
head
of
OIL,
Allusion
the
merchant, to
the
from
consists
in
There
is
whom
meaning being
bottle,
through
ring,
into
another
bottle.
poured some
of reply,
Every
(demons).
CHIN NO KOSHUKU, by an oilthe warrior had asked whether he knew how to shoot,
lesson
ONI
It
guilty party.
pouring
to
fire
of
man
See ONI
trade
oil
to
his
see
(Ehon Tsuhoshi).
LEGEND
IN
ART.
JAPANESE
YEAR FESTIVAL.
DREAMS, CHARMS,
GHOSTS,
ORANGES
bitter
(DAIDAIJ,
ORIMONO,
treasures
OWL,
eating
the
is
jj|
dam when
its
of
NE\V
an easy
task.
of
splendour,
For
under GAMES.
emblematic
brocade,
emblematic
the
of
,,
filial
one of the
is
ingratitude,
Lying clown
is
with
credited
emblematic
is
,,
it
arises.
opportunity
BUFFALO.
or
OX, BULL,
see also
emblematic
MASKS,
Takaramono.
the
of
of
roll
(oni ni sembei)
Men playing Go
BELL,
DAIKOKI:,
TEXJIX.
of
See SHOHAKU
gilt horns.
OX, with
torches
OX,
MORITOSHI.
an
under
hiding
ox
skin.
KIDOMARU
See
and
Usui
SADAMITSU.
OX.
Emblematic
PAPER.
to
the
Gods
of
Cut
See GOHEI.
instead
PAWLONNIA.
badge reserved
Zen Sect
the
paper
Buddhism.
Xusa
called
was
of
used
as
offerings
See MISOGI.
Emblematic
of rectitude
the Emperor;
to
of
with
five
blossoms,
emblem used by
the
Imperial family.
PEACH, emblem
of
Longevity.
See
SEIOBO,
TOBOSAKU,
KYOSEXHEI,
MOMOTARO.
PEACOCK.
also
of
Mount
of
KOKUZO
(the
Boddhisattva
padma Akhasagarba)
Sarasvati (BENTEN).
PEAS
(black),
dried
or
MAME, emblematic
of strength
and
health.
to
cast
out devils.
xxxviii
See Oxi.
New
Year's
LEGEND
Emblem
PEONIES.
of
See Howo.
Howo
called
is
it
KIRI.
NI
HAKUSEKISE.
PIGS.
PINE
Emblem
associated
power,
regal
SAIJOSEN.
ART.
JAPANESE
PHOENIX.
IN
NEW
See
(Matsu).
of strength,
endurance,
because
longevity,
"Sea Pine"
the
that
believed
is
it
its
a fossilised
is
netsuke.
Sanko
of
title
true
Q,
character
PLUM TREE
Ko
consists
tree
UME.
(flowering).
may be an
See
to
meet
plum
tree
himself
was
the
of
a verse
plum
yV
and
"
:
shi
hsiung,
flowers,
who in
He went
though
no
(Nightingale),
If
its
Siio-CniKU-BAi,
tree.
woman,
is
~f~
the distance.
plum
meaning
in
in
of
perfume
Otoguisu
tree,
PLUM BLOSSOMS,
eighteen
Chao
the story of
to
fell
flowering
and
tree
Hakurakuten
He
near.
under
Plum
allusion
her,
dream was a
his
LONGEVITY,
to
class
pine.
of
was a
out of his
Sosho
the
$,
because the
prophecy,
Prince
HO
declined
the
a plum
of
to
branch
return
quiver (Ebira).
by her
it
broken,
poem
of
then in flower,
tree,
break
is
to
where
reply,
will
in
the
"
?
(Shaho Bukuro,
/.).
Ebira Genda.
PLUM BLOSSOMS,
poem, which
means
"
:
in
If
hair.
I
sit
Jft $fc
shall
live
composing a
one thousand
LEGEND
years
If
on
fall
my
place a sprig of
JAPANESE ART.
IN
my
in
plum
RAIN.
See Li
flying
RAKE.
in
"F"
RESSHI.
See DAIKOKU,
whose
name was
real
by
One
water,
thereat,
in
anything.
REFLECTION,
SHOJO.
OMI HAKKEI
See
and Sunshine.
3E
February will
of
See OSHOKUX.
RAT.
snow
sleeves."
PORTRAIT of
POT or URN.
,,
the
hair,
his
$|f $f|,
He
Hotei.
man
He
of
knowledge of medicine.
and afterwards lived without
day, along a
people
river,
the
was
a river
in
noticed
their
his
who
Joyo,
learnt
magic
ever
reflection
expressing
OFUSHI
eating
in
astonishment
When
RICE.
that
jf|L
^,
children
of
on
rice
dropped
their
the
clothes
they
were
but
told
ROCK,
emblematic of
being thrown.
Compare
black
and
Owo
IKO,
SANADA YOICHI,
See STONES.
transpierced by an arrow.
the
(in tattered
ROSARY,
Daikan Zengi
See FUDO.
stability.
ROCK.
priest,
strong
Xl
seeds
of
the
>f/,
Hiian
LEGEND
tree
IN
was thought
it
frightened
ART.
JAPANESE
that
their
odour
SCEPTRE, worn
SCROLL
(rubbing on
if
were a
it
(KAN.HNCHO).
number
odd
an
MOKI.
sleeve).
See BENKEI
Makimono).
(see
SHOJO.
of
times,
or note of
bill
otherwise
hand
for
the
instance,
it
SEAWEED.
WAKAME KARI.
SHARKS.
SHELL
See
New
Year's
War
(conch).
Menken
(in
SHELL
(cowry).
Emblem
of
wealth
(Haliotis),
listened
to
by mermaids.
SHO, musical
the
YAMABUSHI.
See
meaning
proverbial,
to
Takaramono.
in
See OSHIKIO;
instrument.
of
still
is
Horafuki,
see
Kojitsii).
Emblem
trumpet.
GATHERING
SEAWF.KD
Festival.
TOKOKEI.
RANSAIKWA
See OKYO.
a shoe.
into
DARUMA.
also
Woman
SNAKE,
See BENTEN.
white.
See
Tsi.
TAWARA
TSUYENORI,
JIRAIYA,
To DA,
SUSANO-O,
GOMO,
SNAKE, Two-headed,
UWABAMI
family)
(q.v.),
ma Kwang.
by Sze
SNEEZING,
praised
killed
somewhere
that he has
SPADE.
"
ominous
has
;
if
twice,
meanings
reviled
if
if
once,
three
times,
HANASAKA
xli
Jui.
the affected
i.e.,
it
is
person
sure
"cold."
is
proof
LEGEND
IN
are emblematic of
SPARROWS,
gentleness.
like ducks,
walking
,,
ART.
JAPANESE
in
TONGUE CUT
the
of
Story
SPARROW.
SPIDER,
TSUCHIGUMO.
a cave.
in
See
GASHI HIMK.
are emblematic of craft, generally magical craft, as all spiders
SPIDERS,
become oni
STAFF.
Emblematic
Gods, JTROJIN",
to
the
wood
See BAKKMONO.
dark.
after
staff.
called
of
FUKUROKUJIU,
HOTKI.
The
old
See
Chii.
^J
STAFF, with
of
staffs
is
WONINRAN
a makimono attached
often
more rings
or
three
There
in
of
China,
knotty
SHINRAN SHONIN.
Shakujo, emblem of the
BOSATSU.
See Jizo.
or
STAG,
STAG
STAR
Emblem
DEER.
of
Longevity
STARS.
TANADATA
STONES.
STORK,
of
companion
Jurojin.
Autumn.
is
(shooting),
of
(q.v.),
who
lias
just
died.
SOYUDO.
with
interchanges
crane
the
as
emblem
of
See
life.
long
STRING.
omen, and
according
many
If
foretells
to
sex.
loss
String
a short while of a
in
used
for
binding
or
friend
parcels
of
gifts
it
is
an
evil
husband,
must be
of
colours.
SWORD,
Sennin on
See SHORIKEN.
MORINAGA.
,,
biting
,,
breaking to pieces.
Two-edged, Ken,
Ama
in
Mio NO YA (IVAGEKIYO).
priest
sword,
TABLE, man
TIGER
reclining
(white).
on
rain
praying-for-rain
priests.
TAIKOBO, ROSEI.
KOREIJIN.
xlii
Ri-A.
sword
See
LEGEND
by a blow
killed
TIGER,
JAPANESE ART.
IN
the
of
fist.
the Suikoden.
TIGER,
in
KATO KIYOMASA.
See
^ ^f.
SHINKI
,,
going
with a spear.
killed
heaven,* BAISHIN
TIGER.
(In the
X-
f[||
work
Yu
KIIKU Sennin,
SONJA, KOKUSENNIA,
HJ
jj|f
See
a road,
the
J||
Buxsno,
other
going
to
HADESU,
HATTARA-
Liu,
TEISHINEN.
TIGER and
OKX.
LEOPARD.
,,
(Tora).
,,
and DRAGON.
,,
being painted.
See DRAGON.
See MATAHEI.
See KAKUDAITSU.
YOSHIHIRA,
picture.
MICHIZANE.
See CHOSOYU,
TOHAKKUKWA.
TOAD,
TORTOISE.
;
See
powers.
Emblem
FROG,
GAMA
SENNIN,
all
ATSUCHI
the lost
MINOGAME.
in the
cave of Fuji,
see
fabulous;
was said
to
be
its
The Tree
SEIOBO,
thousand
fruit
or
in
HORAI,
feet
MOON,
high,
it
Wood
thousand
tree,
called
^j|,
See FIGURF.
xliii
the
of
^{^
only once in a
years
HIRAI,
TREE,
maturity.
See
night scenes.
of Longevity.
TORCH,
Nih
magic
KOSHIN.
JlRAIYA,
KOAN
with
credited
is
of
is
to
the
reach
five
especially
LEGEND
the
Buddhists
fJ>,
which
China
of
also
set
TREE TRUNK,
JAPANESE ART.
IN
the
value upon
great
the
horse
chestnut
Saul.
KIUSHOKI.
whipping.
UDONGE,
its
in
omen
of
insects or
is
impending
success.
It
The Wakan
a fungus.
UMBRELLA.
VASE of Sake.
man
fabulous flower,
Sanstn'
See SANFI-SIII,
See Snojo,
reclining
WAR
CLUB.
See Frno,
TAI
Li
'MI
WAVES,
RIHAKU.
TAIKOBO.
BKNKKI.
SOKU.
SiiAsnirsiio,
See
CIIOSHIUKA,
TOHOSAKU.
See
-.
BKNKKI
arid
HEIKK, TAIRA NO
SIIORIKKN.
Buddha's statue on
WEAVING.
of
Bo/CU.
Bell
,,
nest
I'EII,
LNDO MORITO,
merely a
ToMOMORI,
it
calls
Rocmsmx, TOSAUO,
See
WATERFALL.
Zue
is
it
Osno.
See
by.
,,
suggested that
is
See JIKAKU
DAISHI.
OTOIIIMK,
BUNKI
MANDARA,
TOYEI.
WHEEL, flaming.
WHEEL
WOMAN,
See
and mantis.
HELL.
See MANTIS.
in the Sky.
RYUKO.
YUZURI.
The
leaf
son
is
grown-up
another replaces
it.
or
Yuzuri ha
is
man,
as
will
not
die
does not
before
fall
New
his
before
LEGEND
IN
JAPANESE ART
LEGEND
ABE NO YASUNA
i.
is
JAPANESE ART
IN
35C
TcM*
sometimes attributed as a wife a white fox which had taken the shape of a
beautiful
woman
to bewitch him.
This story
is
he was walking in the gardens of the temple of Inari, reciting his poems, a
party of nobles passed by in pursuit of a fox, which they were hunting to
for his liver, then used as
near
before
later
the animal,
and hid
it
in the
ample
its
ABE
a medicine.
fell in
birth to a boy,
she appeared to
the fox he
love with,
and soon
him
some
after died of
One
year
Three days
girl
its life.
after her
death
in
had saved.
on the panels
fever.
kill
room
left
Kuzunoha,
lived three
Koishikuba
Tazune
kite miyo,
Izumi naru
Shinoda no mori no
Urami Kuzu no
that
is
If
ha.
A
L-*
you are
in love,
The Kuzu
leaf
(Kuzu no
ha).
and
LEGEND
ABE NO NAKAMARO
2.
He
TAYU FUNAMORI.
is
&
fo f$ J&
was
the son of
NAKATSUKASA
(q.v.),
and ancestor
JAPANESE ART.
IN
(A.D. 716) to
Abe no Yasuna.
of
sent to
old, in
the second
Suspected
by the Emperor, he was invited to a dinner on the top story of a high pagoda,
and made drunk,
and
him
left
^ blood
ran,
after
Legend has
to die of hunger.
and with
it
*J
Awo una
furi
/I?
Kasuga
> v
J
7
if
(Ama no
bara
When
see the
hara),
sake mireba,
nara,
Ideshi tsuki
"
^L.
Mikasa no yama
u rS
it
kamo
ni,
Ah
After his escape, he set out for Japan, but^being shipwrecked, he went to
at the battle of
Toriumi
he was nine
feet high,
fg j| ft
(See Takenori).
arrows.
Emperor,
(770).
ABE NO SADATO
3.
of
to China,
and
for his
huge
stature.
At
combined lengths
of seven
defeated during
f>
*
-j_
-^ reply
in the
j.j^,
7 3
Mitsuredomo,
^1
Jn %-
Oho miya
Nani to yuran.
towa,
bito wa,
< Su p
~
<
LEGEND
"
where
In our country,
IN
saw
it
ABE NO SEIMEI
often,
tell
fn
JAPANESE ART.
Bjf
we
call
"
it
us."
5^ or
KAMO
KAMO HOGEN.
YASUNARI, or
Court Astrologer, son of Abe no Yasuna, occasionally shown with his fox mother
Kuzunoha, who holds a writing brush in her mouth. He cured a grave illness of
the
favorite concubine
TAMAMO NO MATE,
Tamamo no
in
whom
Maye).
own
his
His
name
is
sometimes given as
Abe no Yasunari.
Once, having heard that a bird disrespectfully dropped something upon the
head
of
The Kurando
would be murdered.
practices,
his
On
to see a
man come
to
beg
Abe
stated
miscreant must have been at that time "praying at the hour of the
that
Ox"
some
(Us/ii no
toki mairi) as
Michinaga's
name
no Seimei
is
man
Doma
shown
also
to
Hoshi.
known only
in
and as a
life.
Abe
an empty box.
5.
ACARA
6.
ACHALA
7.
ADACHIGAHARA
(See FUDO).
(See AISEN
She
MIYO
H
is
O).
>T
Jj.
The Goblin
of
Adachigahara was
knife,
and
sometimes preparing to kill a child. In the popular play she is said to have
been of high rank, and attached to the court of a prince who suffered from a
LEGEND
IN
strange disease.
master.
When
She lived
the cure
Oshu
in
was
(Mutsu).
came
evening, a pilgrim
to
his entreaties,
him
his hat
and
refused at
who
on the
KUMI.
river Uji,
AGATA.
9.
first,
ADZUMAYA
elopes
was pardoned.
in.
staff
woman
to look in a certain
whilst the
and the
The woman
ART.
JAPANESE
One
him
full of
Taking
(Ozaki).
GENJI MONOGATARI,
who
is
believed to cure
venereal diseases.
AGNI DEVA.
10.
Ten)
q.v.
11.
K \VATEN
AGONAOSHI
he tore
away
One
of the
|j|
or Jizo
JIZO f|
in
fR|
j&
Old as a jaw
who
Benten,
AIKIO
^^
AIKU
14.
AIR CASTLE
JffiJ
one of
Divinity
his previous
(Hearn).
13.
King
or
has no jaw.
healer, because in
(Jiu ni
^ ^.
worshipped at a temple
lives
Fire divinity,
The concubine
(Shin Kiro) f^
ig
The
the sons of
of Avalokitesvara.
SATO TADANOBU
of
of
(q.v.).
Dragon
open
Sometimes called
ABIi
NO NAKAMAKO
AMATERASU
(./.
(./.)
(li:i..K.)
(M.G.)
ASAHINA SABURO
(A.)
LEGEND
IN
The mirage
is
JAPANESE ART.
and
as an allusion, the
heads.
AISEN MIYO O
15
H^
God
AKAHITO
1 6.
God
(YAMABE NO)
with a mask of
you
~f
Okame
[Ul ill
One
In-
fierce
in
my
8.
AKECHI
$J |? (See
AKOYA
PP[
~t^f
child's
some other No
or
any green
19.
^A
six,
-<
:/
see
love,
the
of Poetry.
AKAMBE
17.
of
ACHALA
of
Transformation
HJ3
character,
"
corresponds with
Do
ODA NOBUNAGA).
JH.
famous courtesan
of
who
(q.v.)
was suspected
after
Yoritomo's army
of
life,
Dan no Ura
(1185).
of
Torture failing
Kiyoki,
because, as he remarked
AKUBO
20.
priest,
"
fine
of
her innocence,
^ ^ i (AKUBOZU)
"No"
AKU HACHIRO
31.
castle of
could not
Celebrated warrior,
who
defended
the
Takasagu,
IYEMITSU.
^ A IB
lift it,
fortified
and so crushed
to death
5
many
LEGEND
was nine
JAPANESE ART.
IN
feet long,
the enemy.
AKUMA ^
22.
with sword
in
with
the sky,
One
a naked
sword
in
day, a
hand.
its
Hearing a
and
kill
One
shown
fl
He
Once he
wear
is
man, clad
who
HP JH] RYO.
^'J
on
swords,
and eating
dress
or
to partake of
AMAKURIKARA,
(/H
fii
24.
Name
AMARIO
of
(q.v.).
life.
this food,
He
used
form
Abreviated
celebrated Kobodaishi
:
TS'UEN),
but those
rio
(Wu
cones.
to
his servants.
AKUSEN
23.
terrible
by the hideous
and peeping, saw the goblin
Frightened
as
in
NO
KURIKARA
the
AMANGAKO
25.
(Utatesa
26.
The Heavenly
and
of
See Koshin.
Wu
Un
Jin,
Chan
of
Birds (TANABATA).
27.
the angel
28.
hung up her
AMARIO
f|
\\).
The mountain
Hagoromo
in
Yamato where
(q.v.).
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
AMATERASU jHMM.itift-
29.
"
The
Heavenly Shiner."
of the reigning
left
eye of IZANAGI.
The Sun
her brother SUSANO O, she retired into a cave, casting darkness over the
of
then had a mirror eight feet in diameter forged by AMA-TSU-MAURA, and also
a string of
five
peace offerings.
a somewhat
in
immodest garment of tree branches, began a frantic dance outside the cave till
the eight hundred myriad deities burst into a huge roar of laughter. Amaterasu,
opening the door, asked what was the meaning of
slightly
Uzume
replying
We
a deity more
is
this
rejoicing,
illustrious
than
rice
To
fishing
the
was
strictly prohibited.
In the
VHIth
on which
Yamabuki Shogen of Tamba, fled to Tsu, after his master had been murdured by
some traitor. He took with him his master's daughter whom he married, and
changed
his
own name
to Heiji.
the sea,
and buried
name
alive
His grave
is still
shown
his nets
man
from
at Akogi-ga-
Amaterasu
Mi Kami
is
also
Tenshoko Daijin
called
Shimmei, and
Daijingu.
Sun Goddess
in
may
the cave
see
his consort
Here
in
in
a deep cave.
in
It
which
myths, but in agreement with the Egyptian, Aryan, and Norse legends.
7
LEGEND
30.
God
JAPANESE ART.
IN
fP
r\>
standing in the centre of the world before the creation, the Nihongi
He
WO NO
AME NO TAJIKARA
God who
out of
it
rolled
KAMI
later.
-ft
jji$.
The strong
by Uzume's dance.
AMIDA
32.
is
31.
name
Kwannon,
flSj
gg
(Endless
life),
(SHIN) Sect.
33.
AMOSHA VAJRA
34.
ANAN (ANANDA)
g?
[pif
also
fr$,
Gautama
ill
JH
^]
called
(See
TAMON,
Fuku Kongo).
a cousin and the
who remembered
endowed
the Buddha's
the whole of
sermons.
35.
ANCHIN
victim of Kiyohime
36.
whom
ANKISEI
TC
J- A Yamabushi,
wandering
priest of the
Shugendo
sect,
(q.v.).
of
who
kept speaking for three nights with the Emperor Shiko of the Shin dynasty,
offered
in
away and
left
few books.
37.
child
ANTOKU TENNO
f|
five years
Go
old by the
TOBA.
He was
Minamoto
carried
This
clan,
away by
and
his
TAKAKURA
(A.D.
1169-1180).
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Taira ship at the battle of DAN-NO-URA, where Nii no Ama, and Antoku jumped
into the sea and were drowned.
(Compare the story of Luh Siu Fu, who,
defeated by Kublai Khan,
jumped
into the
the
Sung dynasty of
He was thereafter popularly believed
YOICHI NO MUNETAKA.
deified, and worshipped under the name Suitengu.
representative of
38.
&
retainers of
(1312-1333);
and uncle
last of the
ffi
Hojo family
Ig 5f,
have been
One
of regents of
the
of
Kamakura
ANIMALS.
39.
$j
to
MYTHICAL.
According to the generally received opinion, the mystic animals are shown,
mouth open,
mouth
the Sanskrit
of the
This however does not agree with the carved wooden Shishis
guardians of the Temples Yasa ka and Yakushiji, figures of which are given in
the
in the
Kokkwa
(177).
are also
embodiments
mane and
tail
of
of the
the Korean
is
its
Kama
Inu,
by straighter and
less
dog
ornamental appendages.
the monster
(q.v.),
Howo
bird,
Minogame.
To
this list
Kirin).
identical with
through a mistake.
9
the Takujiu
(q.v.),
by
apparently
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
HIYAKUDORI, the two-headed bird, with a body like a bird of paradise, and
two long
embodying the
love,
From
spirits of
the Chinese have also been taken the two-headed pig, or sow, with the
tail
may
killed
of
piece
was
by
which a strange specimen exists in a Netsuke, in the
Mr. W. L. Behrens the two heads have taken the appearance of
ma Kwang, and
collection of
is
man.
of a
Nukwa
It
the scaly
body
of the creature
(q.v.),
common
in Indian
Art
may have
inspired the
Dzi
is
hundred
feet
long
is
rising
called
It is
who was
the
omen
companion
monkey
is
of
first,
with
of forthcoming flood.
is
a preventative of
boils.
dog
of
Hanasake
some
Nearly
jiji,
all the
way
to exist in the
LEGEND
Semi-human
creatures
JAPANESE ART.
IN
may
Mythical
Ye,
and
illustrated in Hokusai's
Mangwa have
been placed
under Foreigners (mythical) because they are described by the Chinese as people
Tengu, the
latter
name Umin, by
the
APES
40.
attendants
they are
of
feathers
Hokusai).
/
];
and
The
<jf|.
three
mystic Apes
eyes,
who
his ears,
KIKAZARU, covering
ARHATS
4.2.
ARAKI
The
(See Rakans).
the
Roads,
wished
the
of
(MURASHIGE)
TJC,
no
evil.
evil.
speaks no
evil.
in
summoning Araki
so as to decapitate him.
who
no
to
hit
sees
listens to
Samurai
kill.
Nobunaga
who
to
shoji
knelt,
jamming
the shutters,
had threaded on
43.
God
came
(SAMBIKI
to eat
and saving
many
rice
himself.
Another story
his sword.
ARIWARA NO NARIHIRA
#M^
One
ASAHINA SABURO $
Century, son of
found
hag
of
TOMOE GOZEN.
Jt
^H
illustrated,
ii
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
of strength
under each arm whilst on a cruise in Chinese waters with the Shogun Sanetomo,
uproots a tree at the battle of Hikkane (1180) and uses the huge trunk as a
war
club.
The younger
woman Tora
of the
Soga
of Oiso.
had
for
mistress the
Hatakeyama Shigetada and Asahina Saburo, Tora handed the cup to her lover
first, instead of Hatakeyama, who was the highest personage in the room.
and went
in danger,
Saburo
hands
tried to
of
to his assistance.
Saburo
cliff
Through an anachronism,
it
has been
wrongly stated in some books that a youth of sixteen (Sanada Yoichi) was
passing below at the time, and Asahina (who had a grudge against him) sought
to crush him with the stone, but the youth received the mass in his hands and
back upwards to Asahina.
In the true version the incident
occurs between Matana no Goro and Sanada Yoichi.
Asahina Saburo is also
forthwith threw
it
ASAMA g
45.
or
KO NO HANA
feud.
SENGEN.
ASAZUMA FUNE
46.
like
fg]
Wada
^ lH $,
A woman
Shizuka with flowing robes and long hair hanging down her back.
was the
company,
in
who were
ASHIKAGA
in
lyetsuna,
who
preferred her
Tokugawa Shogun
brought
^Ij,
its
author,
Family
of
1573.
12
Hanabusa
She
A poem
Shoguns descendants
of the
Minamoto,
TASL'KI
(.(.)
I1AKU ("'./.)
BASIIIKO (II'.C.A.)
LEGEND
ASHI ODORI /,
48.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
jj|j,
toy, representing
air,
ASHINAGA (CHOKYAKU)
49.
a buffoon's
man
antics,
P Jt
long legged
men
generally
live
shown
on the
They
live
ASHUKU
50.
Pnj
(fjjj,
One
Gods
Wisdom
of
and Contemplation.
51.
ATAGO
(HOMUSUBI) J|
52.
ATAKA
(Gate
of)
^,
$ ^,
(q.v.)
fire.
SAYEMON
foiled
TOGASHI
ATSUMORI
53.
(TAIRA)
|fc
^ [^],
also
half
his
^^
Kumagai
his
way
He was on
The
boats,
when
the point of
youth when he noticed the beauty of his face and was reminded of
son.
Atsumori would have escaped with his life but for the companions
killing the
his
of
own
for sparing
flute to
monk.
left
Atsumori
is
said to have
a Taira.
The Minamoto
Yoshitsune.
a widow,
Soon
general killed
after he
became a
is
credited
with the invention of the folding fan, by the refreshing use of which she cured
the Abbot of a temple, of a malignant fever.
This invention is however
attributed also to a fan
maker
of 670 A.D.
(See FANS.)
It is
Atsumori's teeth were blackened, a custom which then applied to young nobles
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
of
both
of
Atsumori forms the subject of the popular play Ichi no Tani Futaba Gunki.
(See also
sexes.
Kumagai Naozane.)
^H
AUSHASHIMA
54.
of
coins in the
is
Viverrinus)
>,
hind legs
uses
paws
it
it
it
distends
as a
W Wi
If PI 31
and particularly
the
(Nyctereutes Procyonides
is
its
and striking
drum Tanuki
When
in
draw up
priestly
hat, carrying in
jo
jiki
hunter.
it
disguise
wrapped
represented
their nets
one
is
no hara tsnzumi
it
in
wrapped
in lotus leaves
paw
Amongst
classical
Tanuki
of the
its fore-
a kimono,
fields,
it
causes
their misfortune.
also,
often
met with
(8
with
bill for
all sorts of
annoy wayfarers.
IPL a retainer
FUJITSUNA
its left
(TANUKI)
As a Goblin
powers.
Nameri gawa.
BADGER
56.
or
its left
AWOTO SAYEMON
55.
of
smothering a
nicknamed
"
(FURU TANUKI.)
company with
who
the
FUGU
fish
and the
57.
BAG OF HOTEI
58.
suffers
a wrong
is
^ff
fat,
(See
hilarious
God
of Luck,
& gf.
An
^ ^ written
up.
on
it,
in
HOTEL
of precious things.
invisible bag, in
which a man
Used as a model
for
LEGEND
BAGEN
59.
J5 7C- (See
BAKEMONO
JAPANESE ART.
IN
GAMA
SENNIN.)
fatal to
fa
Generic
$}.
name
for
hold conversation.
is
which
away
it
struck at the
Bakemono with
of the lantern.
sieve.
staff,
whose business
it is
to
KAZANE NO ENKON
Jf|
0)
^|-
She was a jealous wife who was murdered with a scythe by her
Her husband married again
husband, Yorimon, and then thrown in a river.
curved knife.
of the
murdered
woman
In Hokusai's
Mangwa,
she
(q.v.)
is
(symbolical of the moon) and the other open (symbolical of the sun).
pictorial treatment of the legend
is,
His
OKiKU^f;&;C7)$*|lf.
(Plate-house of
to have originated at
Banshu
in
Harima.
It
Aoyama
Tessan (Shuzen) was a Hatamoto, and the possessor of ten pieces of precious plate
received from the Dutch, the keeping of which was entrusted to a maid, O Kiku,
who
Aoyama's
15
love.
LEGEND
soldier hid
one of the
plates,
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Kiku
hundred times she wearily counted them, but could only find nine. Aoyama
then suggested that if she became his mistress he would overlook her supposed
She refused and he killed
carelessness.
her,
two
woman
is
three
nine!
The ghost
Mangwa
well.
well.
Kazane
in
and
the
in Hokusai's
(Vol. X).
its
about, looks
it
over screens.
MITSUME Kozo
or MITSU
ME NYUDO,
is
in
Sometimes depicted as the ghost of the Palace of SOMA, frightening a court lady.
TOORI AKUMA, hideous flying goblin.
UBUME, the old woman of the under world, who comes with a child in her
arms and beseeches the passer-by to hold the infant a while and then goes away.
The weight
of the good-
natured individual, and finally drops to the ground in the shape of a huge
This adventure
boulder.
As
parallel
to
is
related of
the
Ubume,
note
the
myth
She
do so
is
fair
for a
girl
man
to carry her
on
his
is
to
of
of Raiko.
the
old
woman
of
be
castle
set
free
from the
the only
way
to
without looking backwards albeit strange sights and hideous beasts surround
the rescuer, and the
man
woman
will
grow heavier
drops.
nurse
is
1
BAKEMONO
GHOST
(-/..)
MITSUMli KO7.O
GHOST
(JIIOST (H.S.T.)
(.-/./,'.)
(II--.L.K.)
KAZA.Mi
(O.C.K.)
M1KUSHI
MUDO
(O.H.N.)
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
described as having a
Yama Uba
upon
whom
(q.v.)
woman
Yama Uba
the
feeds.
these.
YABUMURA.
(See Yuki-Onna).
TANUKI Bozu, the Badger disguised as a monk, KITSUNE Bi the Fox fire
More will be found under
(Will-o'-the-wisp) are other goblin manifestations.
the
FOXES (KITSUNE).
Hiratakumo,
Jikumo, the earth spider, Tenaga Kumo, the long legged, and
flat spider,
is
human head
that leaves
its
body
after dark.
(See
Hearn's Ghostly Japan and also his chapter on Ghosts in The Romance of the
Way
Milky
(1905).
Kama
also
Itachi,
Adachigahara, Abe
||s
Akuma, Cat
Seimei,
Tamamo no
BAKOKU
61.
no
his wife
SONSENKO
fill
^ stayed
at
home
Nabeshima,
1|t
in
|||f
the
jjj
to
usually
of
Konron
jljjjj
while
One
day,
he heard some music, and looking up, saw his wife in the clouds, with two pages
with halberts and flags. He wrote a line on the nearest gate and went away.
He
is
depicted as a sage watching his wife riding in the clouds, surrounded with
handsome attendants.
62.
BAKU
which used
to
to be
hung
promote slumber.
and
is
like
a man.
also
jf||,
mythical animal
who
Devour, o Baku
feeds
and
a Chinese character
is still
painted on pillows
[Hearn, Kotto.]
It
is
the alternative
in Hearn's paper, as
he gives
17
LEGEND
BANYU GAWA
63.
GAWA, though
incident
it
takes
its
J|
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Jl|-
source in Kai.
It
new name
its
to the following
new
Shogun.
owes
off
river,
and the apparition of evil spirits. Yoritomo's horse took fright and jumped into
the river, where it died at once.
This event took place in the twelth month of
the ninth year of Kenkyu,
and
to this incident
is
later.
64.
BASEISHI J| $c
One
65.
BASHIKO
ffi j||.
Jjji
of the Sennins.
SHE WANG, said to have lived from 2697 to 2597, B.C., at the time
and to have been specially skilled in the treatment of horses. He
MA
of
Hwang
is
represented
Ti,
performing acupuncture on the throat of a sick dragon, or carried into the clouds
on the back of his grateful patient, whom he had cured by this operation and
a draught of liquorice.
BATTLES
66.
DAN NO URA
UJIGAWA
(1186).
ISHIBASHIYAMA.
BATEISEKI
67.
(1184).
ICHINOTAKI.
(See
YASHIMA.
(See Yoshitsune.)
$$
or Horse-hoof stone,
fijj
~fc,
(See Yoritomo,
is
jet
small objects.
when
in
the
Its
mare
name
is
it
into
of SASAKI
BEAUTIES OF NATURE.
The
of
made
BEGGARS.
Komuso,
basket
the
resting
on
Amongst
disgraced
his
picturesque
Rdnin,
shoulders
Snow on
playing
hiding
18
his
the country.
beggars,
the
head,
Moon
the
flageolet
two
most
with
holes
common
a
being
tall
left
BAIFUKU
(ll-:l..K.)
BEKKAKO
BAIFUKU
BENTEN
(.)/.<;.)
('f
(.-/.)
BI.IN1)
MUSICIAN
KOMUSO
BEI.l.
(il.l-;.)
(O.i'.K.)
OF MIIDEKA
(tl.li.)
LEGEND
the
for
he
eyes,
Mawashi
most
the
days, gathering
temple, and
calls
and
called
in
But
the
numerous,
every
in
reality
the
Bozu
Sennichi
boat,
ferry
monks
begging
a
for
begs
are
thousand
money
Takuhatsu (Begging
bell
almost
depicted
monkey showman.
or
probably
is
JAPANESE ART.
IN
attention by striking
friar), hails
bona
fides.
The
bronze
staff,
and
musical instrument.
women
Kadotsukc are
carrying Samisen.
BEIFUKU
BAIFUKU
or
(MEI FUH)
$ H- One of
the Sennins,
of
shown
Nan Ch'ang
(Nansho-no-Jo), who, disgusted with the corruption then prevailing, resigned his
post in 14 B.C. and retired to
secrets of the genii,
his native
Show
mount Hiko,
Ch'un.
or Phcenix)
in
skies
life,
returned to
some
genii
Paradise.
71.
BEKKAKO
downwards
in
^> $* "2
one's tongue,
the
("
"
See
my
eye
fingers,
is
the
while
same
as
commonly
instance, a mask in
").
of putting out
France or in England
accompaniment
It
is
AKAMBE Game.
72.
BELL OF DOJOJI
73.
BELL OF MIIDERA
$j[ Jfc
H ^ ^19
of the Bell).
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
legend,
built.
It
the
in
of
Temple
it
to
TAWARA TODA
(q.v.).
The
it
gave
surface
is
to the temple of
MIIDERA
around the
in the
bell,
it
climbed upon
it,
and
The
bell
alone, but
is
his
oni, or represented
BENKEI
74.
(MUSASHIBO) |$ J| [j
Hero of
priest of
name
of
as such, he
is
content.
men
is
He grew
a stone
shell,
a huge conch
is still
shown
shell,
and was
as strong as one
two big
iron nails.
of the attributes
Later in his
hundred
Yoshino in which he
life,
he posted himself at
one end of the Gojo bridge in Kyoto, and there challenged all comers,
reaping a
fine harvest of nine hundred and ninety nine choice swords.
In vol. XII. of the
Mangwa, he
but the
is
woman
life.
One day
20
it
fast,
and
he challenged
BENKEI
USHIWAKA
(A-..V.)
KANJINCHO (A.)
GOJO NO 1IASIII (M.I,.
11ENKEI
(I--..I.M-)
LEGEND
IN
JAPANESE ART.
becomes linked
till
on Tsuba, and
especially
is
One
fight
is
often
met with
most celebrated
of the
own
of Benkei's
exploits
is
the
away
carrying
The
the end.
and which he actually took away on his shoulder with the beam still
attached, and his paper lantern acting as a balance weight. As soon as Benkei
Hiyeisan,
reached Hiyeizan, he began to strike the bell with the other Yamabushis, but the
faintest of
repeated blows
("I
want
to return to Miidera
dropped
back
it
all
").
Miidera ye
to return
it,
and he did
as he could swallow
so,
on condition
a boiler
five feet
of his
wide
in the castle of
HIDEHIRA the Daimio of Oshu, whence he proceeded with Benkei and two
in the disguise of
barrier
Yuko"
made such
When
flying
under the
being given as
by
distinctly uttering
till
it
"
Yamabushis.
by a troop
of Yoritomo's
refused to allow
them
others,
men under
to pass through.
the
command
of
that
roll,
HOKOJI commanding them to collect monies for the reconstruction of the Todai
temple of Nara
their identity,
21
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
what he
him a
stiff
beating and apologized to Sayemon for the disgraceful conduct of that young
Kan
list)
He
is
known
as the
stealth,
Benkei discovered
shown
also
is
episode.
murder Yoshitsune by
to
This
in getting
plum
on the bridge
Benkei died
etc.
of the fortress of
erect,
Takadachi,
in
by numberless arrows,
pierced
Gawa,
his master.
75.
~%
p%
BENTEN
J$. ]C>
BENTEN SAMA
also
Fortune, she
is
the
Goddess
of
and DAI
BENZAITEN
of the SniCHi-FuKU-JiN or
Gods
of
Good
SARASVATI, and her attributes are the Dragon and HAKUJA, the white serpent
She
is
also the
as an old
man
is
with white
particularly
worshipped at Enoshima, (in connection with this temple, see the Story of
Hojo
fifteen
Guiba,
sons
Inyaku,
Jusha,
Keisho,
Benten
is
Kwantai,
bow and
or merely as
Sanyo, Sensha,
(q.v.)
Konsai,
Hanki,
Kongo mio
sword and Tama.
Her
and
and
the
introduction of
the
Shingon
sect
by Kobodaishi.
(See Anderson
and
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
also called
is
sette
male
One day
heirs.
issue
might
in
some monster
Rinzugawa near by. A fisherman lower down rescued them from the stream,
and set them in warm sand to hatch great was his astonishment a few days
;
crowd
later, at
who
of boys.
the
Bunsho, and thus the boys were returned to their progenitor, educated as
and
BEN
76.
WA
~j\
their
mother was
deified.
^Q.
He brought
him
as
believe
was
it
his
river,
with a
the stone
jade,
BIDORI.
78.
BIMBO j^
(See the
Tongue
cut Sparrow.)
2>,.
Hakuzan
of
in
Echizen,
whose worldly possessions after twenty years of unremitting toil, were barely
three-quarter of an acre of land, and who, having no son, wished to adopt a boy,
One day, as he was leaving the field, a storm broke out, and lightning fell at
his very feet, dazzling him.
for
After
up and 'took to
many
his wife.
little
name
of
KANEMOCHI.
to
above the
was hewn
79.
hills.
When
castle
BIMBOGAMI J|
whom
first
starting
he picked
born of the
Bimbo changed
his
away towards a
in the shape of
was
his wife
(Griffis).
The God
23
of poverty, attended
by the poverty
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
God
(Death-watch
of riches
Charms
FUKU NO KAMI.
are of very
little
used as
fire
bamboo
tubes
H Hm J|,
"
80.
BINGA CHO
81.
BINGO NO SABURO ft $
82.
BINSON
also
named
who
treated
PH
badly,
H MR.
of filial virtue
him
left
KOJIMA TAKANORI).
(See
Jf|.
in Japanese SHIKEN.
him
(Hearn).
half starving,
and clothed
is
in rags.
Once when
he drove his father's wagon, he was so weak that he could not keep the reins in his
hands, and his father discovered the
divorce his wife, but
to die of cold
83.
is
chancel.
woman
BINZURU H[
Hf JH (JIKAKU DAISHI).
who
vow
broke his
He
is
Binzuru's
him
One
the
power
of healing,
name
is
of
Buddhism.
and
Indeed
later
in
Kume no
is
its
him make
often
Sennin.
(1895),
better for
of chastity
of
would be
to
it
He then proposed
(Pindola)
and
It is
driven away.
ill
of this fallen
and
Mr.
1900).
84.
BISHAMON TEN
the
Hindoo God
He
is
of riches,
is
?4t
also the
God
of
of
KUVERA
one of the Shichi Fuku-jin, and also belongs to the Jiu-ni-O (Twelve Deva
24
UBUMR
GOBI. IN
trMI
CAT
IGA
(Cotlccttons
of
Sltitzo I'Ctito
ROZU
NO TSUBONB
LEGEND
Kings),
and
is
shown
in full
armour, with a
JAPANESE ART.
IN
shrine,
and
in the left
life
of
The
a lance.
Maharajah
Shotoku Taishi,
Buddhism Moriya.
fierce expression,
of the
latter attribute
of war.
west he
is
one
of the Shi
war against
Shotoku Taishi had in
According to tradition,
the
enemy
his
man.
their living as
the
first
Amma
San,
and they form an unending theme for funny carvings or other artistic presentment,
either single with a huge sponge, or in pairs with all their working paraphernalia,
their whistles
Blind
and
men
sticks, or at
feeling
work on a
an elephant
is
patient,
common
and often
in
and
subject,
humorous groups.
there
is
a story that
once an Indian elephant having been brought to Japan, a party of blind people
went
to feel
it,
monster, finding
like
it
in their opinions of
of
tree, as
And a moral
is
deduced therefrom,
not to judge of anything on the impression caused by parts only, instead of the
86.
BOEI
^^
is
KAGEKIYO, and
their
headman holds an
official
Kan
dynasty.
SHIKWA then resigned their respective governorships of Suikwa and Bui, and
went to the eastern mounts where he instructed them, (sitting on a cloud).
87.
BOKKO
?fC
He
is
and
BOKU-O
dynasty of
CHOW
in
shrouded in legend.
^ f| 3
(See
MUHWANG).
Two
Fifth sovereign of
till
947
and
B.C.,
;
the
fifth
his history is
LEGEND
Wang Mu
JAPANESE ART.
IN
(Seiobo) in the
met with
fairly often
in Japanese art.
BOMO
89.
7$ H!
or
MAO-MENG
of
Kanyo, one
of
the Sennins,
shown
standing on the head of a dragon, was a servant and pupil of Kikoku Sensei.
He went
to
carried to heaven
of
Koshi, the gth month, the 3oth year of the beginning of the Shin dynasty.
BOKUSH1
go.
Sayu was
He
is
BRIDGES
91.
See :-
Banyu Gawa,
Ichirai Hoshi,
Rohan
Tawara Toda,
NGAN
is
spirit.
Tanabata.
LAN K'lAO
jj^
or INDIGO
BRIDGE on CH'ANG
having been given an appointment under the bridge by a woman, was overtaken
by a sudden
abandon
with a
his tryst,
girl
but
flood,
who
let
himself be
to spend a
BUGAKU
|8| =H|
P'ei
see
drowned clasping a
Hang under
and
month
of
pillar rather
than
the
and
pestle
place.
BUJUTSU (CHO-) $1 ft
(See Yojo).
26
BISIIAMON
(<;.//..V.)
BUTTERFLY DANCE
BISHAMO.N
(ir.L.B.)
(ir.C.,/.)
BOMO
(If.L.K.)
BUWO
('./..y;.)
BUSHISHI
(//'./.. K.)
HORSES OF BOKUO
(./.)
LEGEND
BUNGORO
94.
;>
JAPANESE ART.
IN
jS. 115
(DAIGOZAN-).
The son
of
BUZAYEMON, born at
two feet high by the
Murakami
is
in
1788,
sometimes quoted as an illustration of a large but weak thing, like the big
"
Udo no Tai-boku."
(Stenackers).
^ H J|
BUNKI MANDARA
95.
When CHUJO-HIME 4 $f
1
JH-
#15
Tayema Dera
At
in the flesh.
last
before her, with lotus fibres, a picture of Paradise, fifteen feet square, in a
room
of
96.
BUMBUKU CHAGAMA
This
is
'
stories
One day
as the priest
kettle
on the
fire,
appear at the bottom, the spout change into the neck and head of a badger,
and a long bushy tail shoot out at the back. The kettle also became covered with
hair, and assuming the shape of a badger, started running round the temple.
After a difficult chase it was secured, and placed in a box, where it resumed its
The
normal shape.
the night
saw
started as a
his wife
Meng
98.
for
twenty
vin to
it
BUNSHO
On
3t
Jit-
it
was
laid
and
after
amongst the
making a
treasures.
generally
shown w ith
BUSHISHI j
jj^
i- The
it
showman
fortune, took
97.
priest sold
wherever he pleased.
27
Wu
Sennin
scroll, as
LEGEND
99.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
BUTTERFLY DANCE. A
Its
butterfly
is
"
FEI,
in
lilies."
100.
who
BUWO
^ 3E (Wu WANG).
Founder
At the
battle of
Bokuya
flight
SHU (Cnow)
dynasty,
the revolt against SHO (SHANG).
of the
spear,
101.
CARP
$$[ (Koi).
a Chinese story of a sturgeon of the Hang- Ho, which having swam up the river,
crossed the rapids of Lung Men (Dragon Gate), on the third day of the third
month, and
became a dragon.
itself
The carp
an attribute
is
CASH.
when from
from old times sixteen cakes were eaten as a charm against pestilence
people
who
could not afford sixteen cakes, had sixteen cash worth, and in
tails,
called
is
103.
CASTLE
104.
CATS
and a long
the story of
3f.
Go Saga
Go Kajo.
one
is
Manx
cats,
and
keeping the
of
memory
tailed
called Mike-Neko,
them capable
poor
by
sailors,
If
who
a cat
believe
is
left
LEGEND
IN
JAPANESE ART.
with a dead body, the corpse will get up and dance. At the time of Buddha's
death (Nehon no Shako) all the animals wept with the exception of the Cat.
representations of
two
cats,
woman
Maneki Neko
A story of
is
two
cats
is
given in Mitford's
tales.
A man
torn
might be
her,
he decided
But at night, the cat came and told him that really it was an old
the loft which was in love with the girl, and he dogged her footsteps
He
to protect her.
further advised
him
to
some Ajikawa man, so that with its help they might kill the rat. The old man
followed the cat's advice, and during the same night was awakened by a great
to
cut
its
The two
throat.
for the
two
cats.
He
thereupon,
in the temple.
NEKO f$ H
One of the Daimios of Hizen
$f.
named O TOYO, who one night was killed by a large
NABESHIMA NO
had a favourite
cat, the brute
life
proved
It
ineffective, as
men should
One
Ruiten of Miyo-In to
recite prayers,
with
Buddha, and on enquiry, found that he was praying to the same end as himself,
because being of too small a rank, he could not be allowed to watch in the
Ruiten arranged that this very loyal Ito Soda should watch
that same night. At the usual time, all the retainers succombed to that strange
Daimio's room.
slumber except
Ito,
who, as he
dug
felt sleep
29
it
in the
wound
LEGEND
O
as sleep
JAPANESE ART.
IN
thereafter the
sleep.
feel
this over-
of the apparent
Toyo's witchcraft, and induced Isahaya Buzen, the Daimio's chief councillor,
to set
her
an armed watch around the castle whilst he went to attack the witch
own room
when
him
after fighting
two
tails,
for
in
and escaped,
to be later caught
amongst
the mountains.
105.
CATFISH
106.
CHA NO YU
(See
jH;.
0) H|.
Reduced
The
room
Cha no yu,
of simple con-
their
rules.
Shogun Sanetomo to
this ruler was addicted.
the
complete
set of utensils
these impliments
its
Shortly
after,
a Buddhist
of the
By
that
of tea.
It
in
Ma cha
made
(powder
is
name
of
tea).
Kitanuki Dochin and Takeno Showo followed Shuko as tea experts (Chajin),
and
their pupil
and
later to
Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
3
in that capacity to
Oda Nobunaga,
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Rikiu codified the rules of the Cha no yu to a greater nicety of detail than
his predecessors, and, perhaps
owing
long internal wars, perhaps also from purely sesthetic motives connected with
the highly religious associations of the Cha no yu, he decreed that the utensils
were to be without intrinsic value, and the Cha no yu rooms, then called Sukiya,
small (four-and-a-half mats), simple and decorated in the plainest possible style.
The
the
priests of the
Zen-Shu
in
sect
to
critics,
whom
of
were
attributes the taste of Japanese for plain pottery in a lecture delivered at the
Musee Guimet,
It is
in January, 1898.
dition of the
Cha no ym became
bamboo
It
is
later affected
first
whisks, kettles,
etc.,
its
apex before
Hei-Shin,
The
at
rules of
Cha
details of
more or
weak
tea,
The
The
less
importance.
tea, said to
resemble
weak
spinach.
The host
programme of the ceremony is as follows
(i)
room (2) The guests, on arrival, assemble in a Pavilion in a garden
:
by means
of a
guests
general
prepares the
(3)
retire to the
garden
(6)
They
of
re-enter the
a light repast
room
(7)
(5)
The
The
guests
from his kitchen (Mizu-ya) the various implements which are duly admired one
The host
by one in rotation and their artistic value commented upon
(8)
;
LEGEND
places in a tea
the mixture to
JAPANESE ART.
IN
bowl a spoonful of ground Uji tea, pours water over it, whisks
a frothy mass, and hands it to the chief guest who raises the bowl
which he received
When
of the brew,
and
turn on
and
after
drinks, lowers
it
it,
it
itself
it,
it
passes
again, brings
it
it
to the
back, he drains
it,
it
round again
for
examination,
in
memory
of a chajin
Cha
Rosha who
no
Japanese."
As the implements
of the tea
ceremony are
our illustration has been prepared chiefly from the Nikon Fuzoku Shi, and
the following
list
names
gives the
of collectors.
r.
CHA
IRE,
Tea caddy.
3.
4.
CHA
5.
6.
2.
7.
8.
SEN,
Silk
bag
for same.
Tea whisk.
10.
n.
12.
13.
9.
bowl.
id.
32
CHA NO VU
i\
TEA GATHERER
(./.)
CHAJIN ASLEEP
CHAJIN
(-Y.)
IMPLEMENTS
(1I.S.T.)
(II.S.T.)
CHAJIN (/!/..)
CHAJIN EXPERT (f.D.)
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
14.
15.
1 6.
KWAN,
17.
RAKU, Nane
1 8.
KAMA,
19.
20.
21.
22.
CHIZUKEI,
22A.
KAKE HANA
23.
JIZAI,
24.
KAMA
SHIKI,
25.
26.
KANKEI,
27.
28.
29.
30.
Split rings to
of
lift
the kettle.
Kettle.
Bamboo
jar.
in
flower stand.
IKE,
Bamboo mat
Lamp
fire.
for kettle.
stand.
use.
basin.
31.
Tea
gatherer, a
bonny
tea mill.
It is
case in
his
when he was
called
of the parties
upon
to try a
might prejudice
mind, he sat behind a screen grinding tea whilst the litigants gave their
evidence.
him
to a
died, but
rid of
Cha
no
escaped death.
It
is
told of
Rikiu, that once his servant having swept the garden path
Cha
33
went
out,
and
silently
shook a
tree,
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
He was allowed
make a
CHAN CHU
107.
frog
to
HiA-Mo symbol
of the archer
How-I.
dew
moon
$$i
ityt
of the rainy
When
the
moon,
moon was a
prisoner in
his arrows,
and
stole
Ch'ang Ngo
the sacred
is
in gratitude, Seiobo,
of Immortality, but
natural appearance.
its
it
and flew
to the
up
following legend
Chang
Yellow River,
is
this journey
Western China
trees,
and meeting
of Seiobo, the
flaming
He
K'ien travelled for seven days and nights up the Yellow River dis-
covering vine
bearing on
all
Kwei
3E
fruits of
everlasting
life
lover's feet
finally
sources he
saw a woman
the
and who was weaving the net of the Zodiac. He enquired what was her
name and what was that place, but she only showed him her radiant shuttle, telling
of stars,
him
Pei
;|j
^P, told
him
that no doubt he
on
his return.
had been as
meet her
had
month
leaves),
and that
Nil,
allowed
a bridge
in fact referring to
is
maple
at that very
Chih
Kum
star passing
LEGEND
He had
JAPANESE ART.
IN
travelled
therefore
it
Kwa.
The
by
was
the
carried
back by a
remainder of
his
would soon
ship
"The
who dropped
spirit,
sea
is
full of
but his
it
to
allusion
In
follow.
propitious stars,"
is
still
his
written
CHANG LIANG
no.
CHAO YUN
in.
is
(See CHORIO).
(See CHOUN).
are carried
%\j,
Bukuro, or Kinchaku.
The Exorcism
Oni
after
is
fixed the
head of a dried
and
which
fish (Iwashi).
if
allowed to grow on a
roof,
fire.
The Kusudama
components of
Amongst
is
leaves, used
animal
itself
his toe
a ring, meaning
The Ten
chrysanthemum
paper,
leaf,
newt are
specially valued,
only this
Money
philtre,
and the
made with
of belladonna to
oven
if
35
first
is
considered a token of
LEGEND
good
luck, the
series
started.
images are then buried in the garden of the temple, and a new
and
against the
of
visitors, the
A Poem
JAPANESE ART.
IN
to
by
Kappa
(q.v.).
Small Zori (straw sandals) are hung in front of doors to prevent children
diseases.
Gohei and Shimenawa, identical with those used in Shinto temples, form
of
part
the
of
working paraphernalia
the
Corean
Sorceress.
Sorcery
is
of paper or thin
wooden
They
their foot-
prints.
made
visits are
of brass,
and
bottom
of
which
is
placed a Zori
(straw sandal).
Unfortunately, there
is
inmates, and which consists in the would-be thief performing in the garden a
The burning
of
moxas
is
said to
make
fleeing afar.
sore
It
is
also
recommended
to apply
moxas
DOG AND
BABY.
mode
Q $f fa
"
,
an enemy or a
o'clock in the
faithless lover.
morning
evils.
36
is
Ox "
nails,
two
and
CHARM
CHINNAN
CAT GHOST (M.E.)
CARP (A )
CHINNAN
(M.E.)
[MITSl'MINK]
(ff.S.T.)
CHINNAN (.l/.r.)
CHIYO'S BUCKET (G.H.ff.)
LEGEND
sometimes a straw
IN
JAPANESE ART.
doomed
person.
nails in
a tree and prays for the demise of her enemy, repeating the invocations several
nights in succession.
Usually the
woman
lets
down
her hair
an iron tripod with three lighted candles, and wears very high
See Bimbogami, Nanakusa.
her head
CHENG
112.
(SHE
WANG
Ti)
jgr rj
clogs.
Jl ^].
Chinese Minister
whom
wall,
of
he
a few on medicine, Feng Shuy, and of those which, according to legend, were
He was
prophecy would be
A favorite
(he
little
of his forces in
fulfilled
tree,
sometimes as a boy,
one day a storm breaking whilst he was walking he ran for shelter under a
gnarled
tree,
CHENG
114.
CHENG TU
{jlj,
bowl
priest,
was a Chinese
priest
spring.
115.
CHESTNUTS.
See Emblems.
Story of the
CHIHAKU|H&.
SeeYojo.
117.
CHIHAYA=p
118.
CHINGI
ffi,
J^.
f!|,
37
LEGEND
Taoism
in
recognised,
wife KEISHI
in
JF -f
waggon remained
CHINHAKU
119.
CHINNAN
He ascended
his wife,
|$,
to
>fj|).
frost, after
who was
Kwaen
sick.
in their field
to heaven.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
of their ascent.
for pleasure.
also
called
Legend has
it
flesh,
making
baskets,
and hiding in the dust, besides transmuting metals, and concocting magic pills.
Once passing through a village in Sogo, he found the people praying for rain,
whereupon he thrust his stick into a pool of dried mud in which he detected the
presence of a dragon, and compelled the latter to open the cataracts of heaven
land.
He
is
was nobody
121.
paragons
CHIUYU
who
ffi ft,
the Chinese
CHUNG YEO
or
of the
filial
used to carry ice blocks on his back for the sustenance of his
disciples of Confucius.
He
CHISHI
480
B.C.,
HOTEI
to cross a river
to ferry him.
122.
it
God was
of
the
his father,
character.
name
(q.v.).
123.
CHIOSU.
the retainers of
his
life,
his
to
LEGEND
On
pieces.
as a
mark
JAPANESE ART.
IN
was presented by
his return he
of appreciation.
This story
his lord
with his
sometimes found
is
own
CHISHO-DAISHI |? gg ~X
126.
CHIYO
^p
ftl
(KAGA
NO).
fever, of
Posthumous name
frfi.
Poetess
armour
in prints.
124.
to
set of
pusillanimous
ordering him
which he
of
died.
ENSHIN [H ^r.
neighbours, saying
Asagao ni,
Tsurube
torarete,
Morai midzu.
"My
water
taken from
me by
"
?
CHOCHU
127.
5J^ tf.
which he took
CHODORIO
UJ|
his
it
he wore an
surname TETSUKAN-DOJIN.
gt
LING.
He was nine
two inches high, with features correspondingly large. A fine beard, green
triangular eyes, and arms so long that the tip of his fingers covered his knees when
feet
A.D.
34 at a place
Cho Shibo
San, and
in
Taoist books.
He was
The Ehon
of
(Chorio,
proficient in the
the
first
month
magic
q.v.).
arts.
of Juntei, to
Later they
both repaired to Mount Seijo, where they met six large devils, the chief of which
at
who
39
The
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
whom
he transformed
demons came
his followers,
in
Shinjin
then produced a Kinchiso (bird with golden wings) which sprang on the dragons
and
The
The
these fibres.
chief
and Lao
and he threw
of
feet,
Ts/.e himself
it
title
to crave
Sei
itsu
After spending
some years on the Lung Hit mountains, Chodorio compounded an elixir, and at
the ripe age of 123 became one of the Immortals.
His son Chang Heng followed
in his steps, and according to Mayers his descendants were invested with the
"
title
hereditary
Preceptor of
the
Heaven,"
spirit
of
Chodorio passing by
Chodorio
Our
of
same way
is
member
of
the
Lama.
in
Ehon
Shukit
Bai.
129.
CHOGEN
temple after
its
JH
destruction by
lire in
Old
$fj or SHI'XJO.
who had
priest
1180, the
Go Toba
who
work
and temple
in 1195.
of
a temple, Shunjo went mounted on mule and armed with an imperial rescript,
begging
for
alms
v\
CHOHI
H.
ff.
131.
CHOHI
J|
ffi.
GENTOKU, with
his exploits
is
He
whom
(CHANG
FEI).
Long
arms.
commonly
represented on his
in his hand.
See TENAGA, or
seller,
is
represented
and
4
arms
of
Kingdoms
in
in
after being a
KWANYU and
One of
184.
the Undefended
LEGEND
sent his
in the presence of
Finding himself
City.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
whom
sat
above the
main gate playing the harpischord, whilst another swept the road in front. His
troops effected a flanking movement, and joining some of his allies he attacked
Chohi was murdered by Fan Kiang
He
in 220.
is
characterised
by
CHOJI H.
132.
Mythical beings in
lEf.
"
se
73)
p.
dans
ears.
long
in the
des
terre
la
ble
le
et
air,
133.
CHOKIAKU
134.
CHOKITSU
j|
P.
Taoist worthy
J|. "p^.
He
CHOKO
135.
(CHANG HIAO)
is
legs).
who was
mother
after their
cane.
CHOREI
and
<JH
$|
by and came to
happened
to be hard
brother's,
136.
KWOH
CHOKWARO
set
set
kill
upon by
51
or
robbers,
Li)
first
and as he
life
exchange
for his
free.
TSUGEN $&
He
Ming Hwang,
him
fell
to court, the
first
two
who
preferring
his
and
Wu
Hii but
came
to
life
He
(CHANG
Once the
one of the eight chief Rishis of the Taoists, said to have lived at the end
(See KIGA).
own
offer his
them both
jjj
of
and
of
having
wandering
life
in
41
the
his
refused
portrait
the
placed
a high priestly
company
of
his
hand
in
office at
magic mule.
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
and required no
fodder,
Sennin
the
for
it
keeping
in
when not
gourd
mouth upon
Chokwaro
trip.
game
of chess.
the gourd, or
wrapped
in
cobwebs
(Detta)
meaning
a fresh
or,
as a pun, the
is
shown
Koma
is
always
pawn
(horse)
In the
first
case
it is
not as
Koma
for
the dried
of
legend of Chokwaro.
CHOKIUKA
exhibited his magic powers to the Emperor En, by cutting pieces of his
clothes,
when he clapped
butterflies,
his hands.
modified to the effect that he remonstrated with the Emperor, because the
clothes were too thin,
and that
his
own
latter's
monarch's robes.
138.
CHORIO H j, The
of China, said to
208
B.C.
He
is
drawn sword.
up a
shoe,
and
was one day crossing the bridge of the river I, when there passed mounted on
a mule, an old and poor looking man whose sandal had dropped from his foot
to the bank of the river.
According to one version the old man commanded
Chorio to pick up the shoe, which he did, moved to pity for the old man, though
feeling very
much
the indignity.
is
that he picked
42
up the shoe
of his
own
free
CHODORIO'.S EXORCISM.
THE EMPTY
CHORIO
(.l/.G.)
CITY.
(O.HJf.)
(K.S.)
CI10KIO
AM) KOSEKIKO
(,/.)
LEGEND
and gave
will
HWANG
IN
JAPANESE ART.
it
elder
postponed the
third
appointment he was
sufficiently
told
him
gift,
satisfied that
He
long interval.
that the
man who
on the
last
roll
of
manuscript, and
the King.
This book
is
China
to
and
Kiichi Hogen,
to
He
him that
also told
the river
adherents
its
of
foundation of the
from public
life
Han
in
to Kosekiko.
his
revolt
dynasty.
who had
incident
Dragon
of the
in
first
He became one
in order to pursue
The shoe
Kuh
at
of its ministers,
but retired
elixir of eternal
life,
and as the
had nearly
latter
given up the use of ordinary food, his demise followed speedily in 198
B.C.
is
On
camp
of Kanshin, describing
for
to sell
many
them
to people
sold to
(as
Chorio was then called), and upon his affirmative answer asked him
Han (Kan no
Bukuroi).
43
Koso).
how
he
LEGEND
139.
CHOSANSHU
$|
He
JAPANESE ART.
IN
-jr,
wore
or
in all seasons
CHOSHI
(KiANG SHE).
of filial virtue.
141.
CHOSHIKWA
$| jg
head or feeling
to
He could
tired.
wet him.
together,
Tffl
Choshikwa spread
the
sat
alone, a crane flying from the sky alighted upon his head.
on
it
He
drinking
is
depicted
accordingly.
142.
CHOSHINJIN
J|L
i|j|
was a wizard
of
mount
dragon challenged with trumpets and gongs and leapt into the river, soon
coming back with the monster's head in his left hand and a dagger in the
other.
143.
CHOSOYU
brush,
flf"
his
painter of
last
touch
and lightning, and the dragon escaped from the room. Professor Giles gives a
variant according to which the two dragons were painted, without eyes, on
a wall of the Temple of Joy
^ ^ ^p
The same
144.
story
is
CHOUN
at Nankin.
away and
The
@.
celebrated
the wall
was
shattered to pieces.
see Godoshi.
A Tow,
of the adherents of
CHOHI
CHOUN
(ir.r.K.)
CHOKWARO
(./.)
CHOKVVARO
(xf.)
C1IOK1UKA
(T.I..]
CHOKWARO
CHOSOYU
(J.)
(M.T.)
(A.)
LEGEND
had to
JAPANESE ART.
IN
fly
represented as a
handsome warrior
of powerful stature,
145.
CHUGORO
J&
jfL
girl,
IB-
is
bosom
Choun
A.D.).
of his cloak.
fell
in
boy to suck
when
his blood.
146.
CHUJO HIME
147.
CHUNG KO
*$ ffi jg.
LAO.
148.
CHU-KO-LIANG.
149.
COCK ON DRUM.
Chokwaro
See KOMEI.
This
a very
is
common
it
general, the
drum
fell
Under the
into disuse,
Kamakura followed
The drum
his example.
comma shaped
circle,
fortune.
This design
come and
is
is
figures,
and which
is
of
DAIKOKU
hammer
The Shoguns
drums
(q.v.),
of the
and the
"
with the Hakke (divination sign) are found on the national Corean
COCK-CROW.
prisoner in the
and
and good
rule of
introduced this
of
drum was
some grievance.
(q.v.).
Thunder God
two comma
"
flag.
Once the Chinese hero Prince Tan Chu, son of Yao, being a
town of Kan Kok Kan, the doors of which were closed from
45
LEGEND
sunset
till
IN
JAPANESE ART.
Keimei.
in their design
skilful
imitation of the cock-crow which Keimei gave as they neared the gate of the
Moshogun, and
is
Tenno
(465 A.D.) as
appears from the Story of Sakytsuya in the Nihongi, and such rights are sometimes represented
its
long
tail feathers is
common theme
See Ebisu.
&
CONFUCIUS JL
He
is
is
150.
emptying
itself.
Hwang Kung
This
an allusion to
is
he explained
emblematic of moderation
the water, but
if
See KOSHI
^P-
to
filled
his
Three Sake
disciples
that
tomb
tasters.
of the
Emperor
emptied themselves.
CONFUCIUS,
TEN DISCIPLES
The most
virtuous
The
best speakers
The
administrators
Those with
151.
CROW
in
Chinese
myth
Bumpo
Sanjin, the
three-legged crow
is
a good omen,
a position immediately
jjff
literary talents
J^.
worshipped,
]Jb
}j
are
of the three-legged
crow which
46
it
is
Its origin is
lives
in the
called
YATA
traceable to
sun and
is
COCK ON DRUM
(/'./..)
DAIKOKU
CONFUCIUS
DA1KO1UJ
(C..H.L.)
(.I/. 7'.)
DAIKOKU MAHAKARA
(..!/.)
(j/.(.V.)
LEGEND
and
powers
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Crows are
significances.
often
silhouette
in
depicted
partly
The croaking
an ordinary crow
of
is
is
quite in
crows passing in the sky caused the Chinese Emperor Tsao-Tsao (Soso)
to stand in his boat and compose a poem, and he is often thus depicted.
Two
"
CUCKOO
152.
%$
also
|| and fc
is
its
1~,
note,
and
and the
moon.
it
The
occult
How
meaning
of
which
is
rise
"
?
to soar,
how
is
it
so?"
\
to
which allusion
to his
own
verse"]",
also
command,"
and
"
I
This
last
only bent
my Bow and
the
Arrow
sped."
(See Yorimasa.)
"
When I gaze towards
Another poem dating from the twelfth century, says
the place where the Cuckoo once sang, nothing remains but the moon in the
:
early
morn
"
:
Hototoguisu,
Nagamureba,
Tada
ariake no,
Tsuki zo nokoreru.
*
47
Yumihari
LEGEND
CUTTLE FISH
153.
classes,
make
and
its
JAPANESE ART.
IN
The Octopus
(TAKO).
strange appearance
often
is
is
an
met with
in art so treated
as to
features suggest
who
representation
Its
presents.
of
large
the
into pieces
of
piece
cuttle
occasionally
extricating the
hook
HOHODEMI
of
to
for
(q.v.)
which used
fish
Dragon king
full
as
acts
We
vase,
its
DAIGO TENNO 1H
Hjjj
and
Physician-in-waiting,
find
TAKO
Monkey and
Covering with
with
Fukuro-
of
pan
in
attendance,
154.
shown, as
be sent
(q.v.)
fish,
the Jelly
is
it
kujiu.
In
cuts
now
or
fish).
in the
See also
Go
DAIGO.
;?C j|l.
palace of Seirioden, killing the Dainagon Fujiwara Kiotsura, Taira Mareyo and
Daigo Tenno took refuge in the Jonaiden palace. In the fire which
succeeded the storm the sacred Mirror was found to have removed itself from the
several others,
itself in
tree,
it.
See
Michizane.
155.
DAI JIN ^C
156.
of
or
rice.
TOCHIU %$ %&.
It
DAIJINGU Jt 0$ H
is
indentified with
MONJU BOSATSU,
(q.v.)
the
different.
(q.v.).
157.
One
Mikami
,,-'
DAIKOKU
;fc
H&, or
DAIKOKU TEN.
One
His Shinto
of
the SHICHI
name
is
FUKU
JIN,
HANGONKO
(Mall
Gnrl'titt collection}
LEGEND
No
JAPANESE ART.
IN
He
is
is
particularly worshipped at
said to honour
He
God MAHAKARA,
the colour of
its
image
after
who
revealed to KOBODAISHI,
sented
his
Hammer
the black
God
(Daikokujin), so
represents also
named because
of
oil.
is
repre-
with three rings across, embodying the spirit of the JIN (Yin) and Yo (Yang), or male
and female
is
also
three
its recipient.
finally
stroke of
Daikoku
is
Lucky
The Rat
Mallet.)
is
A common
showing
his treasures to
somewhat rough
his bales, or
A common
Daikoku and
him seated on
variant shows
minded
style called
Kammiyama
temple in
"
group
is
that of
a coups de serpe
"
(Nata tsu
or irreverently as revellers,
Ise,
rat,
and watch
to prevent
This rat
head protruding, or on
it,
is
it
from dwindling
away under
hammer
its
sometimes a swarm of
shown, and the rodent plays the main role in the following story The
Buddhist idols wished to be rid of Daikoku, to whom the Japanese were still
rats
is
and incense
way.
void of
its
owner.
YEMMA
,to get
O, the regent
Daikoku out
to Daikoku's castle,
which he found
49
of the
saw
the
LEGEND
God
The
Daikoku called
seated.
IN
JAPANESE ART.
to find
who was
near.
saw
the Oni,
*.
This
is
The bag
or precious things
The
is
of holly
wedged
(q.v.)
in the
door of a house, to prevent the return of the Oni after the Oni Yarai
proceedings.
Daikoku
New
of
(q.v.),
Daikoku,
is
shown seated
Takaramono
in the
bag which
pulling along.
rat
is
emblem, because
his festival
is
held on
the day of the rat, the Katsushi of the Cycle, and on the Kinoye days one hundred
ROKU DAIKOKU (The Six Daikoku) are given in the Banbutsu Hinakata
Makura Daikoku, ordinary form with hammer on lotus leaf,
as
Ojikara Daikoku, youthful, with sword in the right hand and vajra
in the
left,
Bika Daikoku as a
priest,
left,
Yasha Daikoku, youth, with the wheel of the law (Rimbo or Chakra)
in his right hand,
left
of rice
on her
also
shown
hand,
head.
As a modification
of the
Hindoo God
War
of
MAVISHI TEN, he
is
with MARISHITEN and BISHAMONTEN, as the San Senjin, or Three Gods of War, in
the form of a man with three heads and six arms riding on a boar. This form is
also
known
as
SANMEN DAIKOKU,
or three-faced Daikoku,
and
is
called
San Tenjin
158.
DAI
MOKUREN
jg.
One
it
to her
lips.
50
of the disciples of
Hungry
Buddha who,
into flames
as
LEGEND
He asked
the
Buddha
life
JAPANESE ART.
IN
for
his
and that the only way to obtain her release from perpetual hunger was
on the tenth day of the seventh month the souls of all the great priests
priest,
to
feed
of
Dai Mokuren
Notwithstanding the
all countries.
succeeded, and in his joy at seeing his mother relieved, started to dance.
performance
of the
Dead
is
said to be the origin of the Bon Odori dances during the Festival
(July 13-16).
159.
;fc
#11
One
3fc.
of
His
perfect purity-
name
TA
(Chinese
FUGEN BOSATSU
shown
generally
the Dai
Nichi of
Material
World he
is
162.
DAKIU K;
163.
DANKA.
Zen
seated, in
TENGU
DAI
sect of
is
the
spiritual father
and
^ $J.
;fc
is
Jff
Buddhism
in
fish
See Games.
of Polo.
wooden drum,
in the
form of
head (Waniguchi).
BODHI DHARMA.
China
tiara.
See TENGU.
of
See Mio O.
The Game
PJ.
As Dai Nichi
MAHADEVA.
bell (Mokugyo), or
DARUMA
164.
the
161.
a jingling
somewhat
he
DAI ITOKU.
60.
is
seated, as
He
(q.v.).
wisdom and
This
is
left
Sage to
attributed.
He
whom
is
the introduction of
and
retired in
520 to
which, temptations were heaped upon* him by the evil spirits without any result
and he
is
accordingly often
of
both sexes,
like
Saint Anthony, or being bitten in the ear or other parts of his holy person by rats.
his legs
The humorous
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
is
thrown on the ground, took the form of the Tea tree. A less common, though
quite as irreverent a presentment, shows the Sage surrounded with cobwebs, and
even a female Daruma may be met with, sarcastically directed at the weaker
sex,
no member
temptation to
of
An owl
talk.
is
sometimes shown
in the
garb of Daruma.
Japan
by a
millet stalk, or a
He
is
is
life
snow-man
opened" by the
priests,
revenge themselves
who
when
Daruma sometimes
Legend has
it
Humorous
hand.
He
or a reed.
is
the favourite
taking
bamboo
in allusion to the
and one
prints
shut,
show
and
the toy
when
see,
hear and
irreverently treated.
is
foot
in his
burial,
had
in
it
his
right hand.
left
behind him.
165.
DEMONS.
for a cast
off
to
See ONI.
J| and DENKO
J|f were the three
Chinese brothers TIEN CHEN, KING, and KWANG. They inherited a rose tree at
the death of their father, and as they could not agree as to ownership, they split
1
66.
DENSHIN
|B jg,
when
DENKEI
of course
it
died.
they remained
DARUMA ON REED
(lI'.L.K.
EBISU
(j.)
(MG.)
(st.T.)
LEGEND
DOG HUNTING ^
167.
IN
JAPANESE ART.
arrows,
is
from
Tamamo
no Maye, because dogs chased her upon the moor of Nasu when
from Abe no Seimei's exorcism in the shape of a nine-tail fox.
(Shaho
she fled
Bukuro, Vol
It
I.)
No
forms a part of a
NO
dance.
168.
DOJOJI
169.
DOJOJIN it ff
JjitjJ.
170.
DOKEI
Name assumed
when he
jj|i
UTAI.
H?.
See KIYOHIME.
The
by Ashikaga Yoshimasa,
1473
DOLPHIN.
made
of solid gold,
and said
worth nine
to be
thousand pounds each, were made by order of Kato Kiyomasa in 1610, and placed
on the top
One
them, which
of
years before
many
1873, at the
exhibited, in
Vienna exhibition.
DOMEJIN JH
173.
DOSOJIN if
Wft
H 1$
thief,
(SAi
was
The
j$.
The
of
of a
whose
feast
is
See Koshin.
decorated bamboo, which were burnt, on the i4th of January, with all the writings
made on
on that
the
first
of the year
and Mochi
(rice
cake)
was cooked
fire.
174.
DOYO,
the temple of
Fudo
and meditation
to him,
and
usually called
at Narita,
in the
offered
YUTEN SHONIN
jjffi
53
a priest of
in contemplative prayers
him
^ _h A> was
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Fudo drove
it
became deeply
instituted
and
as
he
Doyo
and
out,
learned.
a three weeks'
fast to
vision.
DRAGON f|.
175.
Of
all the
is
its
greatly differ from that of the Chinese Dragon, except in the matter of claws,
three of
Dragon and
The Dragon
is
strikes
its
throat
is
touched.
four limbs.
full of
when
its
to
The ordinary
five
its
body
in its entirety
without provocation, as
for instance
of
faced."
an
An
&
scaly animals,
On
and
It
also given
is
Mikado
[See Griffis
hare's
(?
its
those of a carp,
mouth
its
rule,
Its
paws
it
by the
deaf
is
head
is
like
its
54
it
like
is
the largest of
a camel's,
bull's, its
tiger's,
and
its
its
neck
horns
like
claws like
without which
Its
it
each side of
The
it
eagle's.
of its
call the
iguana's,
an
seq.].
The Chinese
like
article
exhaustive description
478
is
it
CHINESE DRAGON
(/<"./...)
AMAKUR1KARA
(iy.L.K.)
RAIN DRAGON
(G.H.lf.)
(//'./-..)
LEGEND
come
its
horns
symbolical
lines.
In front of
more or
is
fond of
it
of iron.
JAPANESE ART.
The dragon
swallows,
IN
less
formation at will,
carries
it
It
It
is
and
also afraid
it is
The
ruler of
the waters,
Ryu o
Kio, or
Ryujin, or Ryujin Sama, lives beneath the seas, or at the bottom of lakes in the
Monkey and
Jelly-fish
See
the
Castle,
Mikoto.
Riujin has a messenger in Ryuja sama or Hakuja, the small white serpent
man
Mani
and he
(Tama, the
(q.v.), etc.
is
one
etc.
Chinese astronomy limit the habitable earth, are ruled over by four
Dragon Kings.
The celestial dragon
from decay.
The
spiritual
The
The dragon
of
rain.
There
is
is
the
Shachi Hoko.
fifty
Goncho, with a
terrible
famine
LEGEND
and
IN
JAPANESE ART.
pestilence.
Bimbo).
is,
The
Chinese attribute the origin of their system of writing to the yellow dragon,
presented to
Fuh Hi a
who
scroll inscribed
by Mayers
fall
when
in pain, the
water
HAN RYU
is
It
is
and
KA RYU
is
dragon of
The dragon
indifferent
fiery
of
sight,
of
whom
the luck
is
bad or
creature.
HAN RYU
in particular.
Dragons can breed by intercourse with ordinary animals, with a mare, a Ryu-Me,
with a cow, a Ki-Riu.
is
and
corals,
with
As an emblem the dragon represents both the male and female principle, the
continous changes and variations of life, as symbolised by its unlimited powers
of adaption
accommodating
itself to all
life.
some bamboos,
the dragon in the sky represents the power of the elements over the strongest
animals.*
The
represent the
Emperor and
The dragon
* Anderson calls
association of
it
is
the
two
creatures
was meant
in Chinese to
his ministers.
it is
and
stories.
56
See Bashiko,
LEGEND
etc.,
JAPANESE ART.
IN
;
and Take no
is
three relics of
fire
is
Yamato
the eight-
tail of
headed dragon.
Two
bells,
Tama
also a very
it is
common mode
of decoration of
BENTEN
is
often
in
a cloud
is
symbolic of success in
life.
intercession in
Enoshima
against the troubles caused by such a creature, belongs to the story of Hojo
Tokimasa
In fact this
(q.v.).
KWANNON
is
Goddess
also represented in
is
said to be
"
"
partly
a dragon.
scaly
A
the
man who
"It
is
The Kumozui
- Ja
detta) almost identical with Hyotan
named Makatsugyo.
KAN NO Koso, SUSANO-O, etc., are shown killing
body
slayer
of a
fish,
was T'an
dragons, one with wings called Shi fun, and one with large
the
and
Kara Koma
represents
(in
which
is
dragons.
whom
Another dragon
the
God
of the
it,
LEGEND
DREAMS ^.
176.
Dreams
Clam's dream
is
another
name
work
dream
is
the fallacy of
classical
of
represented
are often
Baku
JAPANESE ART.
IN
worldly honours
to Lii Yen.
is
frequently
Yu FEN
^jjk
-f
^, who
thought that he had lived for several years in a palace, and on waking up after
a while, under a tree in his garden, told the story to his friends.
as he fell asleep
his beard,
and went
They
said that
by
thinking there might be a connection between the Ant and his dream, they dug
up the
place,
called in Japanese
author of which
Nan Ko
no
Yume, and
its
Kung
Tso.
It
is
in Chinese lore
and sometimes
illustrated,
Jl
that
is
^fi J$|
man
Tsai Siang loved to eat quails, and one night in a dream he saw a young
clad in yellow who, in eight verses, reproached
creatures necessary to satisfy his appetite.
JH.
of living
in grey
and
came
later
to
thank him
became a
in another dream.
ways
minister.*
his
^ $3 ^
(q.v.),
dream
is
that of Raiko
also called
58
is
Sukuna Bikona.
dwarf
\y
LEGEND
Dreams
of Fuji
Yama,
of
IN
JAPANESE ART.
to the dreamer.
that
FISH
EARTHQUAKE
Jjjj
f| ^,
in his sleep.
NAMAZU
or
is
who dreamt
177.
life
fruits of
This
or JISHINUWO.
body
like
an
eel,
is
and long feelers on both sides of its mouth, it lies with its
tail under the provinces of Shimosa and Hidachi, and when angry, wriggles
about, shaking the foundations of Japan. A large stone rests on its back, the
large flattened head,
Kaname
Ishi,
it
God KASHIMA
is
to
when
sword through the earth, the mighty blade shrank and became the
Kaname Ishi which Kashima alone can move. Kadori Miojin is Futsu Nuchi no
thrust his
Mikoto, he has a gourd, and with that gourd and the help of Kadori, this
keeps the
fish quiet.
Namazu,
is
thought of
(meaning
sometimes a subject
if
which
178.
also
beetle,
named
supposed to
EBISU
lj$.
named HIRUKO.
like
His
efforts
are little
beetle,
is
it.
Tokugawa leyasu,
dug around the Kaname Ishi,
quake
God
gourd on the
fish's skin.
live
jfc ^jf,
He
is
Sometimes
name
59
of
New
a place
Year's
LEGEND
IN
JAPANESE ART.
wa
gichi gichi
Fuku no Kami yo
Gichi, gichi kogeba.
etc.
made
is
of pottery,
and
metal ornaments for pouches, bearing his traditional appearance, are regular
Legend has
articles of trade.
it
in
Ebisu
October
is
so
deaf,
much
October.
It
is
name means
"
festival,
summons which
the
temple of Izumo.
happy
This infirmity
the twentieth of
his
countenance
is
in
His very
altogether that of an
individual.
points, or
Daikoku
in
(q.v.),
somewhat varied
it
less
in their treatment
he
may
his
own emblems
be cutting up his
or trying to
more or
the
Ebisu
is
God
of
the
Hearn
(U.
J.
God
food;
most common
or
hugging
striking
or dancing with
etc.
of honest dealing, he
often
with his rod one of Daikoku's rats having a fight with the Tai
the fish strapped on his back,
fish
are
coupled with
in households.
is
Daikoku
This
as
God
the
and
Miho
at night,
and
it is
it
was time
made
for
it
him
60
IKKIlt ANT)
(Sheza
Kato
THK JOKO
collection)
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
upon themselves.
EISHUKUKEI Hf
Go above.) One day
179.
playing
Eishukukei
lived, as
the
was known
it
JJpp.
Chuzan that he
eat
mother-of-pearl,
of the sage,
hunt up his
seated on a rock floored with jewels and shaded by a purple cloud, occupied at
He inquired who were the
playing with several other sages a game of Go.
players,
and
him
and
He
Ojishin.
then reproved him for his interference, and telling him that there was a talisman
80.
181.
EMMA
O,
ENCHIN
EMMA
TEN.
also called
He
Sect.
wife of a Samurai,
receive
in
Go Daigo
from
received
the
^ ^ ^ ^, (MONGAKU SHONIN)
^ 3^ ^ ^ ^, from
kill
of Hell.
%,
ENDO MORITO
182.
to
YEMMA, Regent
posthumous
CHISHO DAISHI.
title of
|S| He,
See
(Ehon Kojidan.}
her husband
him
in
|ffc
living in Kyoto,
WATANABE WATARU
he vowed to
and became
kill
kill
his
^C
^ _h A
who
$
fj|f
^,
in love
in
with KESA
1143.
As she
wife.
She
him
made an appointment
when he would
him.
fell
to
husband asleep
Endo came, and cut off the head
find her
was the lady herself, who, taking the opportunity of her husband being
on a journey, had dressed herself in some of his clothes, and sacrificed her
it
61
LEGEND
life
to
grief,
JAPANESE ART.
IN
and, repenting his evil ways, shaved his head and became a monk,
He
to
retired
and
handle of his
bell,
Machi (Kumano,
Kii).
name
of
back
Mongakuzan,
which he managed
to
One
life.
in his honour,
to attain.
penance on
his
lifted
froze,
the icicles
of
and
body
in
commemoration
of the holiness
common
a pretty
is
subject.
He
said
is
YORITOMO
to
where he
died,
Mikado)
in
to
the TAIRA,
fight
because of
to
Izu
in
and
1179,
have
to
incited
and
later
plot
to
from a
183.
his
ENJOBO was
having got
rid of
BIMBOGAMI, the
God
of Poverty,
by means
of
a charm, used
whilst imitating with peach tree twigs the action of pushing someone out of
184.
the
ENKO
monk GENKU,
DAISHI
also called
;)fc
;fc
(See
Posthumous
^ifi.
HONEN SHONIN
Bimbogami.)
bestowed
title
upon
four years in the monastery of Hiyeizan, without finding the complete truth
he
was
seeking,
left
it
when
eighteen
Jodo
sect.
He
is
Tendai
old
years
sect,
to
became the
name
62
of the
go
to
first
Kurodani,
exponent
to the repetition
Buddha Amithaba.
LEGEND
ENOKI
185.
Wildenoiviana
it
sacred to the
inhabited by malevolent
Its
onis.
tree
is
the
Celtus
Sinensis
or
Celtus
There
ART.
JAPANESE
The Enoki
;fif.
is
IN
is
tree), to
latter decided to
have the
from the
castle,
tree felled, as
it
preceding the day fixed for the work, a dragon appeared to Satsuma's mother,
predicting the end of her son's race
if
to
and the work was proceeded with. As the tree fell to the ground, a
terrible noise like a loud moan was heard, and Satsuma's mother, his wife, his
children, his retainers, and finally himself started to howl and run like mad
all prayers,
animals.
himself,
and
his
Satsuma family, who had become a nun under the name of Jikin
the neighbouring Yamashiro temple of Kwannon, was prevailed upon to
princess of the
in
exorcise
it.
EN-NO-SHOKAKU
86.
Prophets of
of
several
Japan living
the
highest
in
^ /h
the
One
j.
seventeenth
of
the
century,
mountains,
Buddhist
earliest
Daisen,
etc.,
to
of
Shokaku
bridges
is
over
Yenno Guioja.
His supernatural
He is depicted
powers were objected to, and he died in exile at Oshima.
in an okimono preserved at the Musee Guimet, amongst the
patriarchs of the
Shingon
187.
SAICHO
sect of
Japanese Buddhism.
ENRYAKU-JI $E
(later
dignified
^f.
with the
the Hiyeizan by
788,
during the
LEGEND
Enryaku Nengo
and
of Kyoto,
its
of
whose
the Yamabushi,
who
(782-805).
they were
erection;
JAPANESE ART.
IN
dissolute
to rebel,
and
purified
lot
to ashes.
1
in
ENSHI
88.
deer's hide.
of deer
^.
$\\
His mother suffered from an eye disease for which the milk
was reputed
He went
was a
severe
from
hiding
of
party
disgusted
mountains to get
a doe.
All he got
the
to
who, however,
hunters,
his story.
FANS.
The
189.
before 1868,
prince
fan
characteristic
is
was the
it
and likewise
of
the
Japanese
it
was put
of
two
sorts
the
flat,
in general use
up
times,
It
is
the attribute of
Fukurokujiu, Jurojin, Benten, Bishamon, Seiobo and the Queen of the Sea,
The
had
decreed,
to
The
Atsumori
invention
(q.v.),
who
of
is
the
maker
of
the
Tenji
period
it
staff,
at
belt,
when appearing
fan
folding
etc.
is
its
attributed
to
the
widow
i.e.,
or Chinese, fan,
and remained
olden
in
Fans are
of
by
living
near
Kyoto,
at
Tamba, and
forgotten.
64
the poor
animal
ENSI1I
K\l)0
(//..V.7-.)
FOX GHOST
MOKITO
(ir.!..K.)
FOXES WEDDING
(.;.)
(7..V.C.)
(/t.S.T.)
EARTHQUAKE FISH
(t:./f.\.)
LEGEND
came
The
curved
of a
by means
rivetted
folding fan
a bit
of
given to
floor.
name Hi Ogi
fixed
are
slats
it
put
its
in
first
The
to
ART.
JAPANESE
in
sleeve.
IN
one's
slats
of
it.
or parent
hone,
sticks,
slightly
(Crab's eye).
Daggers (Tanto) are often made with the scabbard and handle shaped
like a closed fan.
War Fans
bronze as a rule
those
used
by Generals bore on one side the red Sun of Yamato on gold ground, and on
but the decoration of
the other the moon or dragons and groups of stars
;
The following
Akoya Ogi,
of
names
gives the
list
sixteen
with
painted
blades,
emblematic
designs
and
from the two outside sticks of which depended bunches of long streamers.
Gwcishiki,
(Isai
Akome
1864.)
The
Ogi.
inside
of thirty-nine
of longevity
type of fan
the
to
Chukei.
Gumbai
Uclriiva,
fan carried
made
by
of
and nobles.
pieces
of
leather,
or
Gun
Sen.
This
priests
two
in lacquer.
either
flat
or folding,
of
war
iron,
fastened
only.
and made
of metal,
chiefly iron.
Hi Ogi, made
of
Sen,
camp
It
fan
made
of
of feathers, frequently
shown
in the
hands of
65
LEGEND
Komori.
Open
coloured
pasted
JAPANESE ART.
IN
bamboo
upon which is
any shade, except the unlucky green and light
court
with fourteen
fan,
paper of
sticks,
purple.
Mai
Ogi.
ribs only,
Maki Uchhva.
like
up
Fans made
Mizn Uchhva.
are
in
dipped
occasionally
in
They
They
of their
are built
are covered
being rolled
stick.
Fukui,
with
use.
the
lacquered.
Mita Ogi,
and
are
festivities.
Hinoki wood.
Rikin
XVIIth
Tea
Ogi.
century
NO-RiKir, of tea
Shibu
with the
their
mucilage
evil-smelling
name.
which consists of
of
Tetsn
Sen,
are
fifteen,
war
the folding
eighteen,
fans,
or
No
dances,
and the
twenty-five sticks.
stiff
ribs,
dating from
monochrome
paper,
Uma
sticks
it
Jirushi
five
feet
was used
For
an
as
(horse
long,
ensign),
mounted
at
was a
extensive
illustrated
Society
66
LEGEND
The
fan
plays
in
role
JAPANESE ART.
IN
many
great
amongst which
stories,
see
the wrestler.
FAN DANCES.
190.
The
fan
shown
is
the attribute
most
hands
the
commonly used
Kagura dancers
The Kagura
(see Manzai dancers) or of the performer with the Shishi mask.
dance is said to commemorate the performance of UZUME when getting
In the Fan Dance, which is, however, more
Amaterasu out of the cave.
dances
in
is
it
generally
performance than
of a juggler's
the
in
of
the fan
dance,
represents
the
a pine
tree,
191.
FAN GAMES.
192.
FAN
193.
FIREFLY LOVER.
194.
FISH
^&.
195.
FISH
and
Kodzukas
it
recipient
will
It
mame
has
is
See
HOTARU HIME.
See
Given
hidden
be "well preserved"
forms
often
anyone
expresses
a hidden meaning
KONOSHIRO
the
to
illustrated
in
(to
it)
print,
the
the
like
their expulsion
gara
pray
after
means
lest
you
partake,
demons
under CHARMS.
shinjin
entering
the
wish
for
upon a
that
the
"
burnt
grilled
castle,"
HERRING
and
this
IWASHI, a sardine,
castles.
of
motive
also
fearing
return
health.
in
if
and
meaning,
it
mo
*$}
a present to
as
own
FISH.
EARTHQUAKE
also
some
until
HANREI.
See
(DRIED) or HIMONO -f
of
See GAMES.
?H.
Netsuke.
has
journey,
LI
leaves
of a
long enough."
rise
Himono,
on
New
their
to a proverb
sardine
And
is
to
Iwashi no atama
the proverb
is
sometimes
found
it.
LEGEND
KAZUNOKO
of
expression
(dried
wish
this
Shinto temples;
gongs,
made
in
of
roe
it is
New
fish,
On
paper).
an allusion
as
to
and
The
a son.
in
no
Tango
father
197.
In
or boys'
Sekku,
made
of
perseverance
the
of
festival,
paper or of cotton
poles,
in
the household,
which
A'oz,
(see
swims
In
CARP).
refusing
to
return
to
the
name
witli
live
passed by.
in
married
there,
departure for his native land, his Chinese wife gave birth to
his
after
drum
the world.
in
FISH SAVE.
196.
and
even
is
as
the
emblematic
the
used as a sort of
is
.and
children,
Year's festival.
head
fish
many
called
commonly
of
means
herring),
hollow
the shape of a
FISH (made
ART.
JAPANESE
used in the
is
A wooden
FISH HEAD.
IN
sea,
his
where a
fish
picked him
Fish
Save.
INDIVIDUALS.
bodies are partly related to the genus Homo, and which are called Mythical
CHOHI
GEKIBOKU,
tailed
ground
flying
creature can
and return
the British
Museum
legs.
HITOBAN,
of this
in
or
CHOJI, long
in the
etc.,
also fly
away
in
the
68
his
mate
(Vol.
III).
LEGEND
KAFURI UMIN,
in Vol. XL with
and
shown
men,
flying
human
JAPANESE ART.
IN
face.
in
They
Vol.
III.
with
are
said
to
bird's
Funtan.
in
live
bill,
See TENGU.
KOGAN,
nape
KUKOKU,
to
bow and
with
eye,
inches
arrow.
high.
dog's
of
him).
MUFUKU, no belly.
MITSUME KOZO, with
a third eye
centre of
in
is
forehead,
one
of
the Bakemono
ROKUROKUBI,
SANSHIU,
SANSHIN,
SENKIO,
the
although
whirling neck.
triple
face.
triple
Kana
Several of
in
Wakan
the
creatures
the
(like
the
Mangwa
reads
Kenkio,
Senkio A^jMJj&j
san
Kafuri Umin).
described as Goblins.
however, have
artists,
as
the chapters on
the
in
name
the
gives
legs.
men (same
flying
Anderson
q.v.
transliteration
TEIREI, horse
UMIN,
chest.
perforated
only.
not,
as
rule,
given
much prominence
countries
;
Japanese
to
these
the
hair,
leading a Karashishi
at
the end of
a chain
are
creature,
(q.v.),
bears
The Fox
great
and capable
misfortune
B.
FOX ^.
of
the
many
bears the
name
more
men with
of Kitsune,
so
than
curly hair.
and
is
reputed an
the
Badger (Tanuki)
This form of
demoniacal powers, such as possession.
degrees
recognised
name
of
Kitsune-tsuki,
69
and, according to
LEGEND
is
it
still
mere
the
An
the
Vol.
Japan,
had
harvest
perhaps
become
to
&
316,
creature,
well-disposed
will
subject
pp.
/.,
the
of
description
essay on
these
in
magic came
foxes'
in
belief
even
strong,
JAPANESE ART.
IN
are
enlightened
China about
from
would
deeds
of
foxes
be
found
in
Lafcadio
The
seq.
the
Inari
messenger
but
and
bad,
the
the
others,
than
worse
all
volume.
Unfamiliar
is
is
exception,
God
the
of
fill
by
and
century,
Hearn's
fox,
The
scepticism.
the tenth
evil
benevolent,
Reikko,
of
years
rice
and
field
fox,
the
the
man
fox,
of
are
with
fox
animals
long-lived
brush
in
at
its
the
age
of
mouth,
represents
Kuzunoha.
When
"
away from a
HI
f4*
warrior,
Fox,"
predicts
Shunan.
According to legend,
TA
woman
(see
in
TAMAMO NO
form
Ki J&
the
ti>
story
jj:^ jiff
the favourite of
of
Go
TOBA'S
|lj
Mount
Chow
Sin,
concubine,
MATE).
met with
with
posture,
White
or
foxes,
met
wedding,
or
is
in the
subject
flying
The
often
hands,
when he
was a fox
human
depicted with
is
shown contemplating a
is
""?*
evil
tail
with
with
in
the
art.
sacred
many
other places.
jewel
in
their
ttvlons,
the
sun
is
are sometimes a
shines amidst
Every fox
is
the rain,
said
to
have
family of seventy-five, and possesses the infinite vision (Ten Gan), the
70
the
all-
LEGEND
him
(Shiyuki
shin
(7'a
and
in
drum
With
the Will-o'-the-wisp.
times
shown
with
fox
the
and
consist
tricks
in
When
They
besides
Isun),
the fox
it
is,
like
Hotei
make them
fire
its
belly
(kitsune-bi),
the
badger, some-
at
To
hachi
ken.
monks
look like
in
tails,
is
the
in
sky
can
they
manage
take
to
its
form.
are,
to
moon
the
past
men
universal
a priest, or uses
with
the
men.
generates
playing
fish,
open knowledge
kyan
(Zhin
as
distended belly
its
is
transmutation, of which he
itself
or
of
knowledge
designs upon
Isuziuni),
Fugu
souls of others
present
disguises
ham
no
(Kitsune
full
universal
evil
its
the
self-transformation
use
largest
the
of
of
powers
makes the
He has
Isun).
mei tsim),
the widest
JAPANESE ART.
IN
The
fox
Jigyoba no
is
worshipped
Inari,
in
and prayed
to
by
people
Kodomo no
whose children
fall
Inari,
or
sick,
or
One
the Kanzen
(from
Yawa)
Maki moor,
the hedge
'
moment
later
he would accompany
On
that
of
Tokutaro, of Iwahara, in
into
visit to
her.
is
made
now Lord
He
when
to
be
so.
to
to
a post, to wait
for
judgment.
till
the
In
fire.
a servant,
and
tied
of Iwahara, with
ropes
who
priest of the
temple Anrakuji,
headman
of
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
grief,
any other cause than his belief that she was a fox.
agreed, Tokutaro's head was duly shaved by the
priest
.In
the
morning, Tokutaro awoke in the middle of the moor, to find that he had
pate was bare, and he became
priest
The
is
own
his
son
and the physician ordered him as the one and only cure the
None could be
fox.
liver,
procured, but
to
tried
procure
it
liver of
live
stating that
the very
at
late
got sick,
but had
name
he gave,
This person
failed.
being invited to dinner, after the child had recovered, was quite surprised
at his host's expressions of gratitude, as apparently he
messenger
knew nothing
of the
the liver.
During the same night the man had a dream, in which the old vixen
told him that she had killed her cub to requite her debt to him, and that
her mate had acted as messenger in
town,
the
the Fox.
the circumstance.
taking
fox,
human
shape,
.was
shamming.
began.
The son
The man
of
the
killed
fox
the
fox.
made a wager
him and
Then
He would,
72
to
the
changing
role in
money
it,
the
that he
tale
of
would
bridge unheeded.
him
carry
for
straits
he would pretend to be
should
turns.
sore
in
vengeance
so
disguise
to recognize
and
in
that
LEGEND
The badger heard
this,
JAPANESE ART.
IN
and
went
the
to
his retinue,
to
Late in
watch.
to
bridge
away he
himself
gave
him:
to
killed
him on
the spot.
another
In
fox
of
story
revenge,
of
goldsmith
whose work
Oji,
consisted in chasing
which the lady took from him, begging that he would wait at the
door of a castle on the Oto-nashi-gawa.
While the man waited, he saw
along,
the
and crumble
decay
building
under
dust
to
his
very
eyes
nothing
bewildered goldsmith.
girl
young
story.
prince,
girl,
was
him
revealed to
later
.In
one
of
the
according to which
No
dances
Inari
is
Sama,
the "occasion
of
for
Inari
is
the
was sleeping
a fox.
of
the
preserved
she
as
the
smith
Sanjo
Emperor.
blew
the
commemorated
in
the
fires
the
lighted on
on the 8th of
November.
Kitsune Tsuki
is
common
subject in art
dress,
finds
the animal,
is
them
food,
it is
The
it.
fox,
wrapped
hunter,
who
in
a man's
unexpectedly
to
death.
73
LEGEND
gives the following
names
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Goblin foxes
of
FROG.
199.
and the
frog
See TOAD,
art.
Japanese
The
by Takehara Shunsen).
illustrated
vols.,
(3
GAMA
toad
common
of
are
occurrence
in
ONO NO TOFU,
CHUGORO, TOKUBEE.
a lotus leaf while a kingfisher watches his opportunity to pick the delicate
morsel
lotus
leaves
frog's
head
or
and
and
another
worshipping
like
drilling
frogs
while Fuji
fruits,
frog,
can
snake
secretion
the
seated
frog,
common
company with
huge
leaves
amongst
like
an
and
snake
the
of
an
form
slug,
allegory
called Sa
the
in
the appearance
of
soldiers,
The
takes
itself
bigger
box made
hats,
eat
the
the latter
of
of
legend
fatal
is
Jiraiya,
which
frog,
disposes of the
This belief
to the snake.
where magic
powers
the
in
snail,
is
same
made
use of in
relation
to
one
There
know
is
"
and
"
What
it
is
and an Osaka
feeling hurt
frog,
upon their
Ocean and the China Sea
many
hardships,
and
the
between
suggested
return to their
instead
own
of
going
And
but
consoling
themselves
home
with
that there
further,
feeling
the
old
should both
they
themselves
saving
wells,
They found
like.
them, according to
that
They met on
respectively.
that
further
set
trouble
back and
and
travel.
proverb
that
"
Even
Kobodaishi
may
account for
The croaking
their
of frogs
is
nightingales,
74
with
the
exception of the
Kajika,
KITSUXE TADANOIIU
(r.)
KIT.SUNE TSUK1
KUZUNOHA
(a.s.T.)
FOXWOMAN
Ll.)
(U.S. r.)
K1TSUNE ODOKI
(./.)
LEGEND
whose
The
esteemed.
is
cry
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Go
Emperor
to
objected
strongly
Shike-kuro-no
of
frogs
TOBA
have
Ike
been
silent (q.v.).
ONO NO TOFU,
the caligraphist
(q.v.),
was encouraged
A man
his face,
in
is
FU DAISHI
200.
He
century.
ff
FUKEN
The
set).
@p.
called
by Toyokuni.)
(See drawings
Chinese
priest,
who
two
is
by
in
crouching,
studies
his
used in the
is
subject
leaf
in
WARAI BOTOKE
Vlth
lived in the
sons,
FUJO
an d
jfc
He
is
credited with the invention of the revolving bookcase, or Rinso, containing the
the
would
as
The
of
FUDO
Immovable
Nyorai
He
is
Tenrinzo,
its
is
he
>T
thus secured by
Mangwa, and
Hokusai's
in
figured
Buddhistic
I|J].
or
divinity,
identical
also called
is
other Sanskrit
is
sometimes
according to some,
the rope
more constant
is
is
the
In his right
Amakurikara,
in
results,
to
draw men
to
ACHALA
the
or standing
left
on
a vajra hilted
carries
the
the
hand he
and
in
115.
with
is
201.
texts,
Fu
life
Butsu Zo Zui.
illustration of the
Rinzo, or
times to
which,
be
first
work
merit
besides
whole,
means
the
much
as
acquire
it
rope,
which,
According to Buddhist
line,
where
His head
is
strands extending
the
left
shoulder.
75
LEGEND
He
is
both
DOJI,
JAPANESE ART.
IN
KONGARA
is
whom
of
are
often
He has two
Wisdom.
of
a red
like
SEITAKA
and
CHOCEN
with
indentified
in
acolytes:
is
lotus,
life
CHOAKU,
respectively.
FUGEN BOSATSU
202.
^|
as a rule
lotus,
shown with a
and seated
three pairs
He
is
tusks
of
the
roll of texts
on an elephant,
left
Fugen
is
of the Chinese.
FUJI
204.
celebrated in art
the
God who
latter
and
knowledge
dispenses
and
wisdom,
is
the
HI
^^,
or
Eight Diagrams
See SHINNO.
YAMA
and
in
FUJI
Uj,
"
SAN.
The
"
mountain
of
Japan,
Hokusai devotes to
appearance the hundred views of Fuji (Fuji Hyakkei), and the thirty-six
of
He
(Sheika)..
FUH
203.
is
Buddha
the
of
spiritual
its
(SAMAXTA BHADRA).
common
snow-clad mountain
subject, not only for the artist, but even for the free caricature
the school-boy.
his
retinue at
Jofuku
to
have
is
"".)
(/f^
said
the foot of
ascended
Fuji,
the elixir of
life
tear
the
himself
peak,
away from
result that
poem.
^E
Fuji, immortal),
master, the Chinese Emperor, SHIN NO SHIKO (see CHENG), had sent
with the
composing
it,
which
him
his
to seek,
His
the books
all
deception
being
destroyed.
legend
is
sages
not in
as
is
Fuji
San.
Fuji
is
associated
with
76
dreams,
as
the
at
the
omen
same time
of
greatest
NARIHIRA
(//.)
FUJI IN
FUJI
(,/.)
HIME
(../.)
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
luck.
common
205.
legend,
art
Patriot and,
)^] (FUJIWARA).
[jj$
FUJIFUSA $ffc
later, monk (1335) who accompanied the Emperor, Go
The Yedo
his exile.
Yama.
Osetsuyo
HIME
FUJI
206.
Fuji
subjects.
She
is
jj$
Princess
$|.
name
the
in
of
shown with
the head of
claw-like
three
fingers
VASU
when without
"plant,"
very
the Empress
and
211.
CASH.
adventures
their
the
spear,
much
of
He
it.
is
spear from
one of
is
he grasps
his
attributes
the
of
worse
for
wear,
or
fighting
in
the
sky.
and the
nobility.
From
chief officials.
its
also
been honoured by
FUJIWARA HIDESATO
FUJIWARA SADATOSHI
him by
sent
hand;
in the Kojiki
other holds a
the
210.
of
in her
practically
209.
)fc)
FUJIWARA
208.
artists
pictorially
Ji,
thus depicted he
their
wistaria
Some
is
whilst
When
a red pennant.
inhabits
of
IXYAXAGA HIME.
FUJIX (FUTEX) 5c
207.
is
who
divinity
^ t>
*^.
who
and a twig
and Fuji
the
Fuji,
to flower" (Ko-no-hana-saku-ya-hime), or
represented with
DAIGO, during
28)
(I.
according to
his
Chinese master,
FUJITSUNA
||fc
$PSJ
|jjp.
jf|
^.
See
TAWARA TODA
(HIDESATO).
Shown unwrapping
Liu (RenjSbo).
(Aworo SAYEMON).
(Zen
Ken
the
Kojitsu.}
Biwa
rice
to
LEGEND
a convent, when
FUJITSUNA said
one
"
of
his
how
See
JAPANESE ART.
IN
oxen
relieved
himself in
ox
follows
the
the
a paddy
field
suffering
master."
waiting until
to the river,
came
it
across
who
Shogun,
him a
offered
place at court,
212.
213.
FUKIUHAKU
214.
FUKUJIN
Bonheur,"
of
was appreciated by
wit
Fujitsuna's
instead
of water,
full
his
of
AWOTO
example
to
rice
the river.
^ i&-
ffi
H p.
to
according
Sons of Fu Daishi
(q.v.).
See
"
SHICHI
Humbert,
FUKUJIN.
Sept
Seven
the
called
generally
Les
du
Dieux
Household
FUKUKONGO,
215.
AMOGHA VAJRA
who went
from India,
priest
or
to
new alphabet
FUKUROKUJIU
216.
shown with a
body.
accompanied
sacred
or
emblematic
legend,
it
age,
is
the
crane
of
much
long
life,
the
first
which
jewel,
is
God
the
and
Prosperity,
Tama,
by
is
he
the
Accord-
sect.
transliteration
Seven
the
of
than
longer
item of
it
carries
in
often
is
whole
the
of
his
represented by the
stag,
also
thousand years
Luck,
such, usually
hand.
his
The
of
His
tortoise.
Gods
and as
of Longevity,
of
translations.
One
tp.
jfg jfc
head, sometimes
tall
Tantra
for
Pu KUNG.
<*?
A.D.
(704-774)
and
old,
to
its
black at
old
its
second millenium.
Fukurokujiu
some
see
identify
in
is
him a presentment
him with
and
bald-headed,
Jurojin,
of
from
dressed
in
old-fashioned
whom
78
he
often
garments
borrows
the
staff
and
'
FUKUROKUJIU
(H.S.T.)
FUJI MI SAICYO
(M.Ut.)
SAIHYO
(..!/.)
FUKOROKUJIU
FUGEN
(MGI.)
FU'lEN
(T.L.)
(U.GI.)
LEGEND
fan and
the
makimono, or
dignified countenance.
humorous
or
the
is
Luck, or even
of
to
head-gear,
peculiar
In fact, Fukurokujiu
groups.
Gods
other
the
JAPANESE ART.
IN
is
ordinary
particularly
Kubi
Kitbi
(neck
of tables, etc.
his
in
head,
New
Shichi
was
q.v.),
was
It
Fukujin.
total
Saisho,
is,
with
ship,
of
shaving
height
he
boisterous,
feet
this
is
of
standing
it,
of
texts,
held
in
or
or
in
part of the
Ya Kuwaboku (KIKWAHAKU,
five
broad,
feet high,
whose head
is
that
dress,
Noticing
(Tablet).
and
roll
whole
the
either
disciple of
game
this
the
is
by a dwarf, three
visited
half his
treasure
with
play
to
He
attractive
the Tarakabune,
in pleasant
a modified
skill
the
on
climbing
pulling),
who
boys,
the
this
disciple
The author
of
in
Fnzoku
In
is
it
recorded
holy one
217.
who prolonged
FUKUSUKE
|g
to
the
as
the
218.
circa
stool,
first
$)].
thanks to his
how
skill
dwarf answering to
the Emperor, So Chi Zung, and, after
was
(1086)
Rojinsei
of
the Southern
the
star,
of men.
A Toy made
a
model
for
in the
netsuke,
especially poised
on
figure
tells
visit
life
in
a lantern entertainment.
FUKUTOMI ORIBE
1340,
Gen yo
in
he
that
one foot or a
or
came
him
told
getting drunk,
that
as
jjjg
$j| gR.
tale
which
dates
cantankerous wife,
from
rich,
who was
LEGEND
called
One
nature.
of
The
attempt.
unexpected
the
not
find
puns
profitable
by
them
before
keeping
the
failed
who
make,
in
every
yearn for
the
of
example
to
easy
Fukutomi, but
imitating
other
any
unloveliness of her
tale
luck
thinking
try
could
they
her
of
the neighbours,
to
as
Demon,
ugliness
own work
his
up
gave
neighbours Mrs.
describe
to
way
his
by
JAPANESE ART.
IN
unlucky
Hokusho Tota.
neighbour,
FUKYOKU SENSEI
219.
Me
him:
ft
Jg]
&
"Who
could
One day
his living.
live in the
"
have a good medicine which can cure any disease," replied the sage, and
as a pestilence soon after decimated the land, he distributed it on the
I
curing no
door-steps,
less
payment.
FUMON MUKWAN
220.
lived
in
back to
1212-1291,
and who,
Tofukugi.
then
after
in
f$ M-
twelve
and succeeded
was rumoured
HH
years
vei
of
his master as
learned
travel
Abbot
priest
who
China, came
in
of the temple of
Higashiyama was
of
demon
He
queller.
sent for
Fumon, asking him whether he could lay the ghosts. The Abbot replied that
"
Even in the secular books it is said that a ghost cannot overcome virtue,
how
"
lives
built
after
in
in
possession
until
FUNDO.
222.
FUSE HIME
makimono and a
Hakkenden.
his
^^
death,
13 $$
pet
of SATOMI.
dog.
It
is
Lady depicted
an
in
court
her as a bride
to
dress,
with a
of SATOMI, in
whoever would
KUKIUHAKU (...)
FUKUSUKE (.,.
.,.
FUTEN
(y.. v
PUDOU)
-.)
FIIJ , H , ME (Wi A)
PLAYING AT FUKU BIKI
_
(if.c
LEGEND
him
bring
the
head
JAPANESE ART.
IN
one of his
of
The happy
enemies.
was a
suitor
dog.
FUTEN
JJS,
224.
FUTON
of
Heani
Lafcadio
by
in
223.
;.
See FUJIN.
TOTTORI
in
Jjfj
Jft.
Unfamiliar
0) ^\
dilapidated
Their
futon.
and
place,
landlord
heartless
is
little
were
boys
their
took possession of
poor innkeeper
where
in
snow by
the
the
side
of
and
it,
warmth and
turned them out of doors, where they hugged one another for
died in one another's arms,
living
mother.
their
Two
Japan.
This
Hfl.
house.
the
landlord, not
knowing
came from, was surprised night after night to hear the voices of
it
two brothers comforting one another, and found that the voices were
He gave the futon to the village temple, and
those of the two ghosts.
the
GAKI !$
226.
GAMA SENNIN
See GHOSTS.
j|.
4g
flj
A-
the Toad,
complement
of
How
and
and
in
His
eyebrows
or on
dress,
legs,
which
is
his skin
his
some
shoulder.
rare
cases
it
is
the
often
shown
animal
full
its
ffi,
or
One day
as he went
to bathe he
a frog, to
to
in the water.
Kosensei,
who put
his
He
is
sometimes
shown
in
pill
the
or frog.
81
act
of
giving the
pill
to
the
of
toad
LEGEND
IN
227.
Bibliography
The works
Chief!}'
GAMES.
Lafcadio Hearn,
of
JAPANESE ART.
Griffis,
Ayrton.
the following
that
AKAMBE
consists
word
the
ANA
in
ICHI
CHIXSHIN
consists
in
in
MUGA MUGA
xo
as
for
is
long a time
boards
ITA,
of
as
and
the picture.
'YVA,
wisdom,
is
ring of wisdom,
much
essentially
boy's
B. H.
craze
French
the
to
similar
in
1874;
to
have been
tells
were
in
told
Prof.
by
of polo,
game
it
entails.
It
carrying
is
the
in
became
it
responsible
for
figure.
reputed
to
so highly
esteemed
are
that
skill.
expense
de
it
Giles,
it
jeu
vogue
us that
game
possible
Chamberlain
DAKIU,
penny.
after
fashionable
of pitch
Western game
in
reconstitute
MOGURA
or
afterwards sawn
bar of metal,
the
back.
Pictures of
CHIYE xo
down
patience.
pulling
text.
hopping
CHIYE
list
in itself;
ball
of
differs
dressed
the
a distinctive
same colour as
his
in
colour,
dress
several points
enter the
balanced
The
in
field,
seven
each
sort
of
field,
82
LEGEND
The game
consists in
throwing into
this
bag
in
short
Its
JAPANESE ART.
IN
form
popular
New
played on the
is
Year's
and
Kyoto,
game
travelling
called
the
Game
Day,
and
upon
fifty-three
the
from
starting
players,
large
Tokaido road
of
sheet
the Tokaido,
of
stations
the
of
jeu de
Tokyo,
I'oie.
it
is
on
paper,
throw
dice
to
FLOATING FAN.
floating,
which
fans,
lacquered,
specially
rules.
from
was
stream
winding
Chinese
the
upon
who had to
selected,
two
compose poems during the time taken by the fan to travel between
stations,
say, for instance, two consecutive bends of the stream.
illustration will be
in
Vol.
of the
]'.
FUKU
BIKI
is
found
Japan
a
a bunch of ribbons,
An
Transaction.
Society's
One
cup
puns on
who
the prizes given, and the other ends are pulled by the other players,
must guess the nature of the things attached to the tapes they hold.
KARUTA, meaning card, probably from the Spanish Carta, forms
name
generic
of
the GENJI
In
and Minamoto
of a
consists
collection
of
games
GARUTA game
hundred
odes
ancient
upon
cards,
the
to
wars
Taira
the
of
is
the
GARUTA
HYAKU-NIX-ISSHIU
hundred odes.
fifty
GARUTA
KOKIN
the
several
the
matched by
consists of
initial
of
proverb pictures.
two
sets of cards,
one of which
is
adorned
with pictures and the other with the corresponding poems, which must be
matched.
In
cards
One hundred
the
being
HANA GARUTA,
devoted
to
each
month,
83
and
decorated
with
the
four
flower
LEGEND
emblematic
eularia
lespedeza,
The
ownia.
month
that
of
JAPANESE ART.
IN
plum,
Pine,
relative values
of
and
paulfurther
are
four
of
set
peony,
iris,
willow
maple,
chrysanthemum,
(Japonica),
wisteria,
cherry,
distinguished by
design.
with
set,
confined
children
with
to
if
ink,
and
represent,
opposite
attached
side
they
as
backs,
if
a boy,
had
players
the
to
clan
which
they
which the
receive
to
marked
have red or
earthenware pots,
heads
chanced
heads
the
The
wooden swords.
with
break
his face
her hair.
in
according
their
upon
carry
in
game,
This
frog.
opportunities for
it
stakes
a boy's game.
is
their
to
to
tries
without danger,
This
in
the
the
girl,
rule,
loser of the
the
who found
folks,
and
willow
the
many blows
as
the
pots.
GHOSTS GAMES.
most elementary
In the
BAKE
her hair over her face, and plays the role of the
of
rolling
gestures,
and
eyes,
of
lolling
in
tongue,
imitation
of popular
of
of
one wick
stories
wick
last
lighted
short
told,
is
is
removed
becomes
is
the
of
and
sundry
KON DAME
some dismal
exhausted,
snuffed,
accompaniment
game
is
the
ghost
noises
SHI,
ultimately,
till,
made by
or soul
for
appears
the
the
or
last
should
players.
examination.
tale
told,
the
to
the
appear
Another
A number
ghost
of flags are
set
in
are
reputed to wander, and at night stories are told, the players going in
place,
Go
is
as,
instance,
ghosts
84
LEGEND
to tradition, introduced to
and which we
(q.v.),
find
is
an
JAPANESE ART.
IN
number
equal
lines,
of
drawn
lines
at
side
intersect
other,
the
to
angles
right
the
to
Three
first.
hundred and sixty-one crossing points, called Me, are thus formed, and
the central one is named Taiyuki, or primordial principle
the remaining
;
and
three hundred
bodies
are
represented
and
hundred
one
ones
represent
The
day.
much
of
in
description of the
Asiatic Transactions,
five
get
HANETSUKI
New
about the
seed,
is
perhaps
is
the
cl
and one
in
in
round
crosses
lengthy
the
German
KORSCHELT'S paper
of
scq.
easier
game
of
player to
first
Year.
gilt,
and
into
wood and
an
as
stones,
consists
game
three
least
celestial
in
pawns
21
parts
GOMOKU NARABE,
chief
white
eighty
The
degrees of latitude.
represent
sixty
nearly square,
it
is
a heavier
implement
one side of
much
feathers,
like
made
is
it
of
purely
ornamental, carved with the figure of some hero or of some famous actor.
The
loser
fined
is
drawn around
his
HASAMI SHOGI
by having
face blackened,
The game
eyes.
is
his
is
common
or
to
merely
boys and
The game
is
attained,
HATATSUBURAKASHI.
the
point
that effect
of
which
The game
consists
is
in
of
Kite
cutting
attached to
to
his
ink
girls.
consists
of
rings
in
when
pushing
this result
lucky pawn.
fighting,
peculiar to
Nagasaki,
the
adversary's
kite.
loose
its
ordinary smooth
cord
To
(Jada
LEGEND
The cutting cord
clever
glue and
covered with
is
When
to
JAPANESE ART.
IN
powdered
meets
it
and attached
glass,
ISHINAJO,
Marbles.
of
game
JIUROKU MUSASHI.
on a divided board.
KABE DACHI.
touching
consists
in
raising
the
to
which
and
of
as
the
the
with
wall,
palm
of his
The
body
vertically,
so
that
clam
sixty
himself on
supporting
it,
floor,
and
Man's game.
shell
game,
The poems
refers.
one valve
shells,
verse
The
are
divided amongst
the players,
the pictures are thrown one after another on the mats, the holder
poem must
the corresponding
KAKUREMBO.
Hide and
One
KEHAZE KAMI.
the other tries
KEMARI.
to
kick
Football
it.
seek.
player stands,
holding a
paper at
arm's
length,
it
much favoured
made
at
Court
in
ancient
The
times.
Game
away by a
of
special
motion
.of
the
hard round
shells
which
finger,
like
in the Ishinajo.
KIOKUSUI
NO
YEN.
A game
Poems were
of the
to be
game and
stream,
along
which
of
If
it
if
he desired to
poem
in time to
86
LEGEND
he was expected to
the cup,
seize
JAPANESE ART.
IN
let
it
pass,
could
not
produce any poetry remained without wine until perchance a cup stopped
It
is
in front of them by accident.
reported that one of the Chinese
TOHACHI KEX,
players
depicts
Kitsnne
or
fox
the
Ken.
Played
one
people,
his
by placing
three
by
of
his
of
head
the
to
simulate the ears, another extends his arm to personify the hunter with his
a third one
gun
(teppo),
the
headman
players must be
game
is
the
of
sits sternly
village
made
The motions
(shoya).
the
of
of
fingers
as an
example
in
(kaeru)
KEN
is
in
magical powers.
The
European games,
similar in principle, but immensely easier, can be given the French Pigeon
MUSHI
the
(hebi),
The snake
is
the
vole.
frog
represented
Ko AWASE.
or
Incense
game
fully
described in
This
that
pastime necessitated
exquisite
"Ko Awase
such
an elaborate
of
utensils,
classified
amongst
set
collector's treasures.
The
of
principle
of
the
game
consists
in
of its smoke.
The
and
name
on the mats around a small scoring board were given counters, papers to
write poems or the
name
of
8?
LEGEND
round
incense
boxes
small
in
JAPANESE ART.
IN
The
narrow
for
at the
slit
top
and handed
but
closed
in
intricate rules.
Incense
sticks
vary
both
considerably
in
and
quality
in
and
price,
between the best blends being very subtle the players must
be endowed with very acute senses to hit upon the right names at the end
the
differences
of a long game.
KOMA
ASOBI.
Top
but
upper part
shod
is
iron.
bamboo with
holes
In
is
iron rings,
childrens'
side
a hard wooden
taper part
the
toys,
the
French
is
part
whilst
from
differs
to a point
round
to
the
of
the
the
in
boys.
very similar to
is
cylindrical,
with
is
for
spinning,
boys,
where
it
made
of
the
rotating,
plug.
in top fights.
Another game played with a top is called Fox Catching : the top is
placed on the floor, and the boy "fox" attempts to reach it without getting
his head caught in a hoop held by his playmates between him and his
prize.
KOTORO KOTORO.
Catching the
The
child.
players
walk
to
is
single
swing
child,
his
who
the Oni,
he succeed, the
"
father
"
scarf joining
head forwards
MAKURA
tied
till
in
file,
contact
with
Should
line.
The two
their
which
foreheads,
ARASOI.
come
single
whose duty
file,
not
in
is
set
pull
moving
by
the
in.
The two
Pillow catching.
they
at
some distance
in
front
of
each and
they must reach the pillows without toppling one another over.
MARITSUKI.
Girls'
MAWARI KOBOTOKE.
in
game, playing at
Childrens'
game
88
ball.
:
in
dancing
LEGEND
MAWARI SEKKO.
no incense
JAPANESE ART.
IN
circulating,
word the
first
in
sit
circle
and
there
is
make poems,
last
previous player.
ME
or
KAKUSHI,
MEKUSAN.
Blind
man's
This
buff.
game
finds
its
NAMAKO
SUBERI.
This
man who
really
NE No Hi No
exercise than a
more a physical
game:
number, naked and with the skin well greased, and
is
down
is
the winner.
The amusement
ASOBI.
the
of
day
of
the Rat.
Old-
On
the
first
day
of the
Rat
of the
first
The two
players
sit
One
face to face.
with a piece of paper stuck to his forehead makes grimaces to cause his
partner to laugh without smiling himself.
OGI
two
OTOSHI,
better
girl's
game played by
a fashion that
it
The
ONI GOKKO.
The
turned on
itself
"puss
in
in
its
the
trajectory.
corner,"
the French
or
quatre coins.
OSAMA KEN.
In this
game some
six or seven
OSHIKURA.
with small
drop
in grade.
OTEDAMA
rise or
or
OJAMME.
seeds.
89
filled
LEGEND
POETRY.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
the
of Yoshiiye
SAJI
in the
hand, and with the right hand they try to throw one another down.
left
SARU KABURI
basket, through
The
HIKAKI KABURI.
or
which he cannot
SHITAE TACHI.
his
left
A man
and attempts
see,
to kick
it
off.
back, and he must touch the wall with his forehead without, tumbling
over.
The game
SHOGI.
of chess, played
side),
SUGOROKU.
Travelling
TAKE UMA.
Literally
TAKO AGE.
Kite
TEMARI.
TENUGUI
game such
Sennins,
it
or
girl's
BIKI.
TSUBO UCHI.
An
the
game
old Chinese
TSURU No HERIORI.
fruit
Hoop
filled
man's game.
trundling.
be
YAMI SAIKU
Otafuku,
or
is
it.
90
in shooting
with peas.
in
tied
teeth
between
the
used,
stick
this
game
Western boys
held fast by
The only
to
is
WAMAWASHI.
of
is
The towel
TOKAIDO ROAD.
TOKO
as that of the
type,
is
cut
into
large
parts,
mask
and the
LEGEND
Thumb
YUBI ZUMO.
The two
pressing.
thumbs together
force their
JAPANESE ART.
IN
and
face
to
face
sit
players
as a trial of strength.
There are many variants to the trials of strength, they may be made
with the legs, the fists, the hands; Kubihiki takes place with a long endless
rope passing from neck to neck of the players under their bodies while on
all
fours,
etc.,
game and
there
until
the physical
is
exercise,
popular games.
When
who
meets, one
company
will perform
He
some game.
sits
is
hand
in the
is
circle,
and the person who then holds the object must begin
the entertainment.
GARIO
228.
of
Vishnu
|$H /iff
3$!}
GARUDA.
or
UW,
Mythical
or
BINGA,
half
creature,
like
tail
The companion
BINGACHO.
woman
a
half
bird,
sort
of
Crane.
It
is
also
GEESE
229.
called
See
(Wild).
EMBLEMS,
TAKENORI,
SENNINS,
YOSHIIYK,
HACHIMANTARO.
GEESE, with rushes
be
should
when
exercised
geese carry
in
their
their
in
bills
are
bills,
an
selecting
bits of rushes,
emblematic
abode,
as
believed
is
it
care which
the
of
in
that
ponds, before
GEKIBOKU
231.
GEKKAWO ^
MUSUBI NO
$$
KAMI, YUEH
vet-
T H.
LAO
thread
Poetical
^,
the
name
the
God
of
In
the
of
Marriage:
Moon, who
LEGEND
old
man
down
its
varies
occupation, and by
this
foliage
JAPANESE ART.
IN
is
in
growing
everlastingly
it
daughters of
physical
Kwoh
exercise,
chops
the
The
a red colour.
of
way
red
thread
silk
GENII
232.
They
^ f$,
^fl
in
are presented
the
the HAPPY, or
guise
of
WAGO
JIN.
treasures
underfoot.
GEMPEI
^ ^.
The war
of
GENJI
(or
Xllth Century.
GENJI
no Ura
after
The
victor,
YORITOMO, became Shogun, but died, after having driven his half-brother,
The GENJI clan became extinct in 1219,
YOHITSUNE, to commit suicide.
when SANETOMO, second son of Yoritomo, was treacherously murdered by his
GENJI.
236.
GENJI
WHITE BANNER
MONOGATARI
of the
jg
Genji.
& $9
of
meizo (1804).
Lengthy novel
g-
Hachiman,
in
fifty-four
volumes, written at the end of the Xth Century by the poetess MURASAKI
SHIKIBU
(q.v.).
of Prince
Genji,
Thirty-one of
biographical volume in
old
its
includes
the
adventures
necessitates
itself.
237.
GENKEI
man
I^C III-
prototype of a great
it
to
Chinese sage,
many rough
netsuke.
92
He
is
said
to
have
lost
his
way
LEGEND
in the
Tendai mountains
IN
middle of the
in the
ART.
JAPANESE
century, A.D., in
first
company
with Ryushin.
they received, and after leaving them they found themselves seven generations
See RYUSHIN.
older.
GENKU
238.
with the
titles of
Kamakura,
the priest
is
Nazumo
who, with
ABE xo
(See
GENSO
the
Tsung
Tang
flft
his hosso,
the
Tamamo
A humorous
SEIMEI.)
temple of
Maye had
no
picture of this
been
incident
See STONES.
dynasty, born 685, and adopted son of the then Emperor Jui
whom
to
j|l.
(q.v.).
IP?,
7ft]
of
0%
in
transformed.
is
GENXO OSHO
239.
of
$j| 2j5.
he
succeeded in 713
Genso delighted
A.D.
in
the con-
tree,
slow to open according to his Imperial opinion, he had the drum beaten
by
his
to
wife of his
own
son,
and
of
whom
he had
He
hurry.
the
sisters
generally
the erstwhile
(q.v.),
took her in his seraglio, gave his son another consort, and
of
is
left
the cares
The
Tartar minion,
of
Ming Hwang,
GENSUKE BASHIRA
which was
in
the
the
sisters,
in 756.
fljj
& A tt & EE
or
in
debauchery, the
Pillar of Gensuke,
was swallowed
jt|
of the
own companion
in
licence
over
the
Matsue
93
river,
but
and when
HORIO YOSHIHARU,
stone
after
stone
LEGEND
was
by burying a
the
that
Hakama, the
in
the form
of a
story
attaches
some
later
to
live
fire
the
bridge
of
dark
on
visible
man,
nights.
Nagara famous
in
It
happened
haunted the
after
pillar,
human
At
Japanese poetry.
spirit
sacrifices.
make a building
to
was decided
it
as
red
date wicker or
is
and
piers,
There
one of the
in
known
man named
be a
man
live
stiffener
structure.
man who
first
to
finished,
except
JAPANESE ART.
IN
and
secure
effect
strong,
of
the
immuring
Roumanian
the
in
ballad of Manoli.
GKNTOKU
242.
also
known
when
2lfl|.
as RIUBI (Liu
He
a child.
is
Han
relative of the
CHOIII,
whom
he
later
orchard,
to
with
rulers.
and
usurp the throne, the three brothers in arms turned against him, from
when
and
Emperor
of
This
China.
Liu
was
One
of
Gentoku's
invited
him
to
some
the
title
during the
feast.
of the
deep
ravine.
Tsao
CHAO LIEH
Pei,
Ti,
as
is
classical
he
in Shuli.
was betrothed
to
the
at
The only
his
castle
place which
his son,
the
adventures
took
Pei
on
that
in
of Piety
Paragon
One
of
94
river
retainers,
Dankei
Iseki,
He
had,
which the
Gentoku's
who
occasion.
ran
the steep
its
course
showed him
that
GENTOKtl
GAMA
(ir.LJi.)
GOSH1S1IO
TOYS
(A.)
KIOKUSHI NO YEN
(ir.L.K.)
(ll.S.I.)
(C.//..V.)
(JAMA SKNXIN
G1OKUSHISI1O
(H.S.'J')
(if.L.B.)
(j.N.C.)
(A
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
the
jump
He
also
is
classics,
to accept the
Emperor's
For
offer.
his son,
A-Tow,
CHOUN.
see
243.
GHOSTS
Since
the
aunt,
the
painter,
then
request of the
the
artistic
See also
(Yitrei).
from
Shogun,
of
presentment
the
ghosts
first
ghost picture at
own dying
appearance of his
and
become
has
stories
ghost
common.
The
are
spirits
shown
with
long
hand
hair,
straight
waist
for
and
strongly delineated,
downwards,
ghosts
determinant
no
have
forms are
the
In
feet.
the
also
GINGA
245.
GIUBA -^
netsnke,
$j| yBf.
into
airy
this
point
is
latter
nothingness,
of
course
$jj
of
GO
jffic.
the sons
Yakuwo
of
Benten,
shown with
Bosatsu (Baichadryaraja).
Men playing Go
in
and
and taper
misty,
feature.
244.
246.
waving or
The head
Ehon
Wakan
zoho
Hokan.
In
guahon
a
Kagami
This
of
is
an allusion to
Hasegawa Yasuyoshi
in
garden
open them.
fruit,
and went
Go upon
split,
of
the
95
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
After a while, one of the sages pulled from his dress a dragon-shaped
close.
and
root,
all
and
drank some,
on
it
spat
calling for
then,
ground, where
the
water,
resolved
it
man
the old
into a
itself
The
story
is
some
In
it.
a ground cherry
places, however,
takes the place of the orange, but this variant could not be traced in books.
GOBLINS.
247.
See
also
GODS
the
of
Prince and
the
of
Tale
ADACHIGAIIARA,
the
in
Badger
sparrow,
Badger's
many
GOOD FORTUNE.
OF
cut
tongue
See
the
SIIICHI
FUKU
Hearn.
and
Jix,
GO DAIGO
j|)
tried to
but
failed,
the
Islands of Oki.
After the
of Japan,
Emperor
1333,
is
1332, to
in
happy campaign
of
Chiburi, one of
Nitta Yoshisada
(q.v.),
The
When
he
story
fled
weep
verse,
Sashite
yuku
Kasagi no yama wo
,1.
> v
i
\
ninty-sixth
Go
The
jjl-
who
of
^C
Ideshi yori
<
7
Ame
a,
"
:
Kakure ga
mo
have
left
Since
nothing shelters
To which
me from
ga shita
and
the shower."
Fujifusa replied
96
nashi,
the Kasagi
"
wa
ni
Since
have no
my
umbrella,
mountains,
have
lost
}'<iinatt(ik<i)
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Ikani sen
Tanomu kokage
ni
Tachiyoreba
Nawo
sode nurasu
Matsu no shita
meaning
"
...
in
which
the road
to
the Oki
sleeves."
shita
shade
if
do,
shelter
as
Whatever can we
tsuiyu,
means
tsuiyu
takes
still
rain
falling
one
drops,
or
tears
well.
On
monk RIOCHIYU
and with
the escort,
the
of
by the
rode in advance of
in his attempt,
sword
his
islands, several
cherry
tree
upon
(O Heaven
to
...
ni
x..,
still
-*e-
lives.)
give the
not
Mura,
in
and threw
away.
it
The
The
tree
Daigo
of
the
eluded
illness she
During her
Tottori.
fruit
guard
of
and
she
and
chestnuts.
Sasaki
died
at
Sozen
Goku
germinated into a
like tooth-bites,
tooth-marked
the
journey,
it
is
tree,
called
Hagata guri
no
Kiyotaka,
and
with
Minamoto
ki.
Go
no
Tadaaki, managed to reach a fishing boat, the skipper of which hid him
under loads of evil-smelling cuttle fish, and, telling the pursuing Kiyotaka
that
two
men
in
court
dress
had
been
seen
escaping
in
the
opposite
direction, took them across to Osaka no Minato, in Hoki, where the Emperor
Nagashige, took him to the summit of the Funa no ye Yama, and defeated
latter
arrived
in
97
hot
pursuit.
The triumph
of
the
fe
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
the
Yoshino
the
hand
tried
several
of
his
death
his
250.
GODOSHI
251.
GOKURAKU
252.
GOMO
^t
j||
=$.
to
to
fly
of
his
Yoshisada,
in
little
use.
Paradise.
Wu
%&.
had
TAO TSZE.
The Buddhist
^.
>gt
See Wi:
he
again
successors
the
After
dynasty.
soon
but
Masashige,
rapidly dwindled
followers
Ins
Kusunoki
of
whence he and
Yoshino,
called
Go Daigo
When
MENG.
eight years
This paragon of
filial
became a
piety
who
disciple of the
of
example
his
lived
as
with fan
in
He
stags.
winds
the
were
proficiency,
Fu Chen Kung.
is
253.
herself
the
GOMPACHI
lovers
faithful
is
of
half
Inabi,
the
killed
seventeenth
A and
girl,
represented
TSAI
an adept
(q.v.)
of Taoist
with
whom
of the
in
two
popular
Shirai
in
LWAN,
of
his
century,
he met a
also
$|
plays.
way
and
repre-
the boisterous
His daughter,
necromancy
is
3%
drawn by two
a giant snake, and his favourite
she
He
^ A ~T
often
is
waved over
credited
he
hand, driving
is
wizard TING
in
he,
too,
98
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
He
for
entertained
Joro,
arrival
timely
him
in
of robbers,
of
Yedo.
arrived from
just
the
She was no other than Komurasaki, whose people had met with misfortune,
herself
to
their
pay
debts.
in
Gompachi, deeply
love
himself, he
began a life of
crime, killing and robbing people to get enough money wherewith to buy her
He was caught and beheaded, Chobei buried his body at Ekko-in,
back.
Komurasaki
and
Their
came
common tomb
few
the
the
in
later
days
called
is
money
grave
of
on
herself
kill
the Shiyoku,
legendary bird
Shossestn
to
1804
grave.
and the
souls of
(q.v.).
See the
Hiyokudori
in
his
Yedo Mnrasaki
also
(Hokusai).
254.
GONGEN SAMA
255.
256.
GOSANKE
Tokugawa Shoguns.
^EL
-ff,
J^
%jj[.
It
Name
^C-
of
families
^ W
tffi.
Hi-
Wu
Yux,
issued from
KANAME
GOSHISHO ft
257.
Su -^
$P
|f|
also
the
ISHI.
called
bronze brazier,
is
generally represented
in
The Shaho
the act.
Bukupa. says
that
Goshisho
So (Cnu).
The Duke Ai, of Shin, desirous of grasping
the supreme power, had proposed an assembly of nobles at Rinto, where
was a general
all
were to discuss
with
little
orders
that
of
to
faith in chance, he
kill
to
power.
Being a
to
who
man
To with
further he proposed
should be a
man
of
great strength, capable of lifting a kanaye weighing 1000 kin (1329 pounds),
99
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
and, at the same time, of such literary attainments as to solve three riddles
which
of
election
his
through the
This was
had chosen.
the Duke,
he,
own
Ko
favourite,
all
who however
SONKO,
test.
rather
got
lamely
Lifting the
seat.
kanaye with one hand, he wrote the proper answers with the other, and the
Goshisho then asked the Duke to give
nobles enthusiastically elected him.
him
some
guard as
ill
in
his plans.
his
Go (^
head
to
was
Wii),
him a
at
be
girl,
of
Goshisho,
gift
and
of
to
have
According to
exposed.
legend,
the
King was
later
captured by the enemy, and, as he was led past the exposed head, this grim
(see
HANREI).
it
that
in
short history of his flight from his native country, T'su, to the Court of Wii,
after the treacherous execution of his father
of
258.
GOSHO NO GOROMARU
259.
GO
Japan,
TOP.A
who was
years
till
old,
TENNO
0)
^ Mj % ^ Jl.
I|$
A-
in B.C.
520.,
Dan no
invested
"
Ura,
in
1184.
fP $f
and brother
1198,
when he
government and
to
get
tried
rid
to
of
lived
take in his
then
four
peaceably
own hands
and
who were struggling for the regency of the Empire. After a short
in the Old Islands,
fight, Go Toba was captured and exiled to Amagori,
He is said to have whiled away his leisure by
where he lived till 1239.
Hojo,
forging swords called Goshokaji (palace forging) with the assistance of twelve
swordsmiths, one for each month of the year, in a smithy specially erected
100
LEGEND
in
his palace,
JAPANESE ART.
IN
it,
be
tree to
sleeping.
as the rustling of
still,
branches
in
pine
him from
dumb
disturbed
its
commanded a
his
since
1200, because,
august
and
he
their
nightly
croaking
commanded them
forthwith
at
be
to
silent.
260.
GOURDS
Banner
,,
fight
Xari Hisago.
At a
OTA NOBUNAGA,
Hideyoshi having no
to
carry
before
im-
him,
won
thereafter.
to
The
his
incident
met with
standard
it
as
After
pennon.
the
(HIOTAN).
in art,
is
for
strips,
is
common
each
and
feature frequently
it
in
some
GOYEMON
(ISHIKAWA)
JL
Hf PI Dft
)\\l
son
of
Ishikawa
Akashi was a celebrated bandit of the XVth century, who, when thirty-seven
he was taken to
years old, attempted to murder Taiko Sama, but failed
;
Kyoto and
of his
wife
who had
there publicly
Oritsu,
to
his
boiled
death in an
to
father-in-law
oil
Three
officials
name and
preserved, but
in
the humorous,
LEGEND
The penalty
to
of boiling
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Testament
of
leyasu.
Nobutora, and
it
had
just been
was suppressed by
stole
and wrapped
the
the
in
it
piece of Shokko no nishiki, rich brocade from the Chinese province of Shoku.
It
to
is
wanted to
belonging
&
A]
-*C
Ishikawa ya
j^
-)
Hama
jt
~y^
\ty
wa
no Masago
Tsukuru tomo
Yo ni nusu bito no
Tane wa tsukimaji
the
"Although
sandy shore,
sands are
yet
the
all
seed
of
gone
a
of
the
robber
Ishikawa
will
(river)
remain
not
and
of
every
exhausted
for
j j
ever.
MY EYE
262.
GREEN
IN
263.
GWAN
SHIN KEI
cane
which
to
MM
with a package on
represented
is
he was a learned
To
(game).
his
YEN CHI N
shoulder,
man who
held
office in
Chinese sage,
He
K'ING.
is
also called
the time of
GWAN
HITSU,
of
the
dynasty,
and refused
to
Many
(Lo
years
fuh),
rebuked him
to
after
in
life.
It
is
letter to
said that
take
once he
LEGEND
caused rain to
IN
JAPANESE ART.
fall
who had
GYOGI ff
264.
temple of Amaterasu, in
to
Ise,
erect at
or
GYOGI BOSATSU.
celebrated Buddhist
in 736,
who,
priest
^ ^ H|,
pray
for
He propagated
the Daibutsu.
of
the
doctrine of
the popular
of
name
Buddhism,
of Gongen.
flourished
religions
side
by side
in
common
temples until the Restoration in 1868 and the "revival of pure Shinto."
Gyogi
is
of several bridges,
besides
the
monk was
the
The
use
of
pottery
called
He
century.
died in 749.
GYOKUSHI 3L
trees or buildings,
now
of
~f,
fields.
and perhaps
266.
the
HACHIMAN
HI-
Hime
He
(Jingo Kogo).
He
clan,
who
is
War
in
is
-f
J|L.
HORSE.
posthumous title of
Tarashi Nakatsu Hiko and Okinaga Tarashi
eight banners,"
credited with a
of
"The
-fc
He
life
of
no
years,
and died
many
of his
numerous
I0 3
is
shrines.
often
was used
of the
shown
in
310
Minamoto
Born whilst
in
A.D.
his
the arms of
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
In his youth, he
growth on
his
and
called
the throne.
of the flowing
was
Dragon King,
in
of inspection,
Ojin
decided to leave the decision to the judgment of God, and the two brothers were
The Emperor
in
is
The
but he
is,
successful.
gentle dove
is
his messenger,
There
having
distilled
a strong
is
in
liquor, Ojin
partook of
for,
along the Osaka road, merrily singing, he hit a boulder with his
the stone ran out of his way.
267.
HACHIMANTARO
268.
HACHI NO
KI
&
it
and became
went
as he
staff
and
A If ^C
115-
See YOSHIIYE.
7|C.
taking the
title of
one companion, DOUN NIKIAIDO, also disguised as a monk. Both suffered greatly
from the hardships attending a winter trip, and one night when stopped by a
storm of unusual violence, they took refuge in the house of a
to the
Kamakura
ignored,
and
though
The
ill-will
rusty weapons.
refined
an unworthy kinsman.
clan,
On
man whose
104
GENTOKU (//.)
HAGOROMO (M.E.)
HAKUBAKU (.).)
HAGOROMO
GAMA SENNIN
(A.)
H1YAKUDORI
HADESU
(itr.G.)
(II'.L.B.)
(/<.)
LEGEND
IN
JAPANESE ART.
present of money, in exchange for which he received from Tsuneyo's wife a lock
Before they
of her hair.
left in
trees, the
pine, he
ceremonies, but
instead.
and from
the
all parts of
country warriors came to Kamakura, even long after the revolt had been quelled.
Amongst
was Tsuneyo,
in
of merriment.
whom
On
giving his
year.
In the
No
play
names
it
is
of
name he was
office,
to Pine,
and added
it
warm
to
the guest
room
HACHISUKE
the
bear
who
him
fed
right
and
to consciousness
his
story
excited wonder,
of the bear.
and
and
him and
died,
270.
HADESU
NO OMI,
who was
J^|
and skin
With
sent to
the bear,
and he took
to death
to
the
by
his
(3 or HASUHI.
of
own
family sickened
ox.*
Common name
of
KASHIWADE
in 545.
Compare this Indian story A Deer of five colours, with white horns, saved a man from drowning, and
made him swear to be silent. The Queen having dreamt of such an animal, rewards were offered for its disThe man betrayed the deer, which, on being caught, told the story to the King, and the perjured man
covery.
:
was beheaded.
LEGEND
He
is
story
with his
general!}' represented
is
told
in
JAPANESE ART.
IN
left
hand
in the
snow having
to
him
in
his
revenge.
large
bringing
its
have been a
271.
See under
272.
assist
His
in the
tiger.
of a tiger.
the Nihongi to the effect that, after several stormy days, his
mouth
cliff
presented
tiger
stabbed
it
itself,
the
In
unhappy
said
to
girl.
HAGATA GURI NO
The
KI.
tree of the
tooth-marked chestnuts.
Go DAIGO TENNO.
HAGOROMO
~& (Feathery
Subject of a
robe).
No
play.
An
Angel (Tennin) came once to the forest of Mio, near Okitsu, and climbed a
mountain to behold mount Fuji and the sea of Suruga. She admired the
view and then,
after
and
thought her a beautiful woman, but presumably his looks did not betoken
sufficient respect, for the Tennin was afraid and went straight back to Heaven,
minus her
robe,
which
is still
See Chamberlain's
Hagoromo
..
is
also
the popular
it
it.
&
is
name
of
some
sort
of
cake,
The
fact
is
stated in the
poem
and
as an
a tray with
Kwashibon no
Makie no matsu
ni
&
Kakari
J^
keri
Hagoromo
Yoberu
"The
sweetstuff called
Hagoromo
to
damo
senbei.
is
of
China,
1
quotes a somewhat
06
similar
Liu-chiu
LEGEND
IN
ART.
JAPANESE
story
a farmer
story
found
is
in
white
the
swan, or sometimes
seal,
which married a fisherman and gave him three children before leaving him,
finally, in Siberian and South African folklore; an essay on the subject can
be found
in
HAKUDO
273.
jj|i.
fjij
pole.
HAKUGA NO SAMMI
274.
or SEMI
|f
HH
whom
HAKUHAKU
flute
his
play
it.
in
to
Hakuga,
he could transmit
{fc.
undertaking.
him
to take
to
as his pupil,
|$
^,
or
Hakubaku, and
He
is
276.
later they
were
lost in
in
$j[
The
f^^|.
by
existence.
He came back
certain place
his master,
he had
the
located
story of
bag,
from
them from
stole
company
Hakuraku
is
of
also
a demon.
known
sent
all
as
over
Emperor
a
j|j<;
horse.
after
green
fire.
HAKURAKU
bay
mare
which
horse,
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
somewhat
of
Wang Yang
reference to
this
They were
this
is
true knowledge.
In allusion to
HAKUSEKISHO
277.
U ^
One
(Hakusekisei).
Vol. III.
He was
of
the
Taoist
is
thus
shown) until he had the sum of ten thousand gold pieces to procure the
materials of an elixir.
Once he boiled a white stone (Haku-seki) for his
food and he retired to the Mount Hakuseki, hence his name.
278.
HANASAKASE
who makes
JIJII
^,
Pfc
illustrated.
man
or
is
shown digging
dog near him, gold coins showing amongst the freshly-tilled soil, or sitting
under a dead tree with a box of ashes. There was once an old couple who
had a dog named
Shiro,
dog began
and barking
insistence
sniffing
that
came upon a
the old
large
man dug
number
the earth,
and
of
all
One day
of coins.
found to be
filled
with
filth
force.
and
The
offal.
the
own
garden,
the
was
the
dog
The old man, much grieved,
offered sacrifice upon the spot, and during the night was rewarded by the
ghost of Shiro whispering to him to cut the tree down and make a rice
mortar of its trunk. This mortar was endowed with the property of changing
and buried
it
some
they
tree.
mind
Thereupon
his
to obtain
of these riches
08
LEGEND
him
to
get
JAPANESE ART.
IN
and
to
scatter
trees.
fame
his
who
One
tested
to imitate
Prince's
but
still
more so
in
that
some
of the ashes
life
In
The good
man
old
was immediately
HANDAKA SONJA
j^f
Handaka's appearance
is
left
issues
is
forfeited.
iM
If:
^,
after
threatening:
he
One
PANTHAKA.
or
is
of
the
generally
He
shown with a
shown seated on a
and
trees,
life
wife,
279.
to
his
Sometimes
rock, the
HANGAKU
280.
latter
revolted
When
the
was
|g
amongst
Moritsuna,
woman was
is
of
Daughter
|||.
at last captured
by Sainen.
Jo no Sukemori.
q.v.)
wood
and
his
daughter fought
as missiles.
This strong
spirited illustration of
her fight
HANGONKO K^IW-
Smoke."
This
Yoshiwara
belle,
story
forms
the
"The
subject
of
Spirit
the
returning
play,
in
the
Incense
Sendai Hagi.
The
The
Prince, however,
hoping to succeed in
109
his suit,
bought
LEGEND
IN
JAPANESE ART.
her from the Joroya for her actual weight in gold, and she
him
follow
"We
it
be that
may
smoke
the
shall
I
to
saying:
Takao had
to his castle.
sticks,
Even
of this incense."
and her ghost appeared in the fragrant smoke before the eyes of Jusaburo,
See the Chinese story of Rifujin under Kan no Koso.
as she had promised.
HANKI
282.
He
dish.
is
One
fjs[ fi(.
and
is
His attribute
is
rice
a transformation of Sendanko
He
is
HANKWAI
generally
episode of his
HH".
lower class of the Chinese people, having been a dog butcher, but being one
of
of the
further
One
Han dynasty
Emperor HAN KAO Tsu (Kao Ti Japanese, KAN NO Koso), and became
attached to him when Kan no Koso married one of his relatives.
;
version has
it
KAO Yu was
that
life
of the
Emperor,
and Hankwai having heard that the conspirators were assembled in a room
feasting with Kan no Koso, he forced his way to it, and bursting open the
door entered the room with the door under his arm.
him
to
partake of the
after
The Emperor
invited
feast,
his
Yu
of treason,
leg,
(20
drunken man to give Kan no Koso time to escape with Chang Liang
During the following year the aged Emperor
(Ehon Riozai, Ehon Hokan).
raised him to the command of his troops, but on an accusation being made
of a
against
Thanks
him ordered
to
his
confinement in
his
minister,
relationship
jail,
with
Empress,
he
escaped
after
no
short
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
In
forbidding
palace,
anyone to
violently
HANNYA
284.
;.
$L
HANREI served
-Us-
KOSEN
He
twenty
is
to destroy
famous beauty,
washing silk, and who,
Go
Si
his
is
after
mistress of
of
his
own
Kow
and
represented
Kow
p. 379)
(UsAGi).
SEISHI),
terminating his
in
whom
See GOSHISHO.
rich.
See
Go
sending to the
he had found
is
made
The hare
is
moon
to
Upon
his fidelity
DAIGO.
of
drown
which SEISHI
is
the
her in a lake.
of
or
This appears, however, to be a mistake, perhaps due to a confusion with Chow Sin (1123 B.C.) or Kieh
although it has been said that after the fall of Fu Ch'a she had boasted that she would also captivate
Tsien, and Hanrei, to prevent this, took her one night in a boat over the Lake Suche (Sochu), where he
*
(1766
is
HARE
its
one
He
Anderson (Catalogue,
286.
$jj Japanese,
(j?
KOSEN
He
(Wu).
SHE
left
Kow
minister of
is
He became
Chinese Empire.
the
of
distracted
HANREI
who was
latter the
to
Li,
B.C.
years' warfare
"belle"
and
entry
in his belt
an
effected
self-
luxurious
in
See MASKS.
this description
"
in his
as a pillow.
up
fangs.
HANREI
285.
with
and spending
approach,
so
indulgence
resting
is
B.C.),
Ill
LEGEND
moon" and
"full
leapt
sent to the
to
become food
seeming
rush,
with
associated
the
like
Hindoo
keep company to
surrounded
represented
scouring
in reminiscence
in the fire to
moon
JAPANESE ART.
When
"rice cake."
IN
for
the
plants,
Equiseta
familiar
horse
tail,
or
to
The hare
It
artist,
is
also
KINTARO
of
companions
Century
is
said
(q.v.)
Jjp.
He
is
one of the
Toba
Sojo.
that
the sky
if
is
clear, or
the waves on
the
adventures of
it
is
fitting
preparing the
of
life.
in
given
crocodiles
go.
elixir
hare and a
descendant of
one
into
the
Kojiki
is
that
Hare
the
of
Old
jeered at them,
and
to
of
Inaba,
who
the
twitted
On
YAMA:
was
man caught
the animal
and took
it
in
it
the mountains,
his
old
home, hung
it
from the
rafters,
wife
;
and told
According to a Mexican legend quoted from Sahagun in Andrew Lang's Custom and Myth, the
man, and the marks upon its disk were produced by a RABBIT being thrown across his face.
originally a
112
the
moon
THREE EPISODES
HARE
IN
IN
HANASAKA
THE MOON
JIJI
(A.)
HARE
(lY.L.B.)
IN
THE MOON
(C.P.P.)
(H.S.T.)
HARE ON WAVES
(H.S.T.)
LEGEND
his wife he
woman
JAPANESE ART.
IN
kill
would
eat
The
it.
man
and cooked
Now
there
man
that he
had eaten
woodcutter,
when he met
the
in the
his wife,
its
After the
original form
and
to the mountain.
of the old
He
him and promised to avenge him.
man some hot grilled beans, and carried them in a bag
badger the latter wanted some of the beans, and the hare
went
he
her, presenting
to
see
flint
and
fired
the hay.
it
is
Click-click
hare, "this
was
sore
and
blistered,
burden.
went
He went
boat, in
what
results,
it
for
to
go to the moon
which was
plentiful
making a
he even proposed to
as a
of the clay
and
red pepper
just as
thereabouts.
boats the clay soon got sodden, and the badger's boat dropped to pieces
then the hare "finished" Tanuki with a few strokes of his oar,
delight of the woodcutter
"3
to
watch the
much
to the
fray.
LEGEND
and
287.
HASUI.
288.
HATAKEYAMA SHIGETADA H
descendant
See HADESU.
of
Taira no
captured
the
Tomoe Gozen
sleeve
his
hands.
to
JAPANESE ART.
IN
in
the care of a
In
of
of
Shigeyoshi
he
feud
she escaped,
nearly
her
leaving
in
Numada,
Ise,
to
the head
however, offended
Kamakura Govern-
the
complained to
latter
Wada
estate
his
left
Son
J&.
the
but
Gawa,
IJji
Shigetada had
Inube lyetsuna.
priest,
Takamochi.
at
Uj
ment, and Shigetada was deprived of his estate and confined to the house
of
Tanemasa, where he
Chiba
was
Finally he
him
his
loyalty
then
(Yoritomo,
when he heard
SOGA the hint
a
Minamoto
that
till
drunken
the
knotted
Hiraga
of the
the
treacherous
in
and
KAGEKIYO,
staff,
with
shot
and
is
turn red,
to
of
II.,
latter
Tokimasa,
was not
Shikken
the
H5jo
satisfied
1205)
he sent for
entered
Kamakura,
arrows
by
the
Hojo
BHADRA.
One
soldiers.
See
AKOYA.
{$
|?fc
occasionally
or
of
the
shown seated on a
rock.
He
Sixteen
he holds
is
also
powers
290.
He was a
murderer, and
their father's
Tomomasa, son-in-law
But
HATTARA SONJA
shown with
whom
of
leaves."
one
the
of
see the
executed.
upon
YOSHITSUNE,
289.
with
who was
set
first
Shigetada,
was
the
evening to
brawl
this
by
of
camp
treated
the
in
Hojo
Shogun
take
to
The
home.
wait
he
the
to
SOGA
the
of
friend
back
sent
refused
of faith.
HEAVEN,
Four Kings
of.
AM A
NO GAWA.
,,
River
,,
of.
See
TANABATA.
114
See
LEGEND
HEAVEN,
See JOKWA.
Pillars of.
HEIKE
201.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
0Sc
or HEISHI.
(q.v.).
HEIKE GANI
292.
or Heike crabs of
^,
Akamagaseki (Shimonoseki),
which attaches a curious legend, verging on superstition
Ifi
with
Dan no
of
battle
1185,
They
Minamoto
by the
of
the
of
it
Yoshitsune,
Tomomori.
specially
bottom
(q.v.)
sea
or
Hitachi,
the
with
HEITARO SONE
*$>
down
the
of
ghosts
For
ladles.
jf|$
still
ft* fl|.
the
roughly
crabs
the
surrounding
Taira
bail
the
legend,
see
nightly
similar
army,
to
rescue
Masayoshi
Heitaro Sone, of
father,
On
a boy.
being cut
shell
from
the
warriors
legend
bottomless
their
see
to
drowning
to
According
uncommon
not
is
of
and Tatsugashira, or
tree
in
Lira,
See Hearn.
(Genji).
the
Heike
a pilgrimage to
was used
in saving
Kumano,
a large willow
means
same day he met on the road a comely maiden, with whom he fell
in love, and their union was followed by the birth of a boy.
One day the
ex-Emperor, Shirakawa Tenno, who suffered from chronic headaches, went
On
the
Rengebo
of
Kumano
The
skull
dropped once
it
aloft.
Workmen were
tree,
in
and
river,
it
had
later
been
in
one that Heitaro had previously saved. At every blow of the felling axe Heitaro's
"5
LEGEND
wife became weaker, and she died
she
was
little
when
it
HELL
^fl,
and with
of
The august
jin san
of
working
Infernal
development
in
gen do at Kyoto.
is
EMMA
O, or
the
personage,
seated
Yama
Ql, King) on
their
two witnesses
MIRUMK with
insured by
is
at his right,
all-seeing
was enshrined
its
Deities,
YEMMA
head-dresses.
the female
until Heitaro's
it
skull
are,
fallen
/d^ (JIGOKU).
its
As the
skull.
it
correct
a host
efforts of
294.
fell,
The
the tree
JAPANESE ART.
IN
He
is
all
and
odours,
by another
also assisted
The
The Styx
Regents are
of classical tradition
is
here represented
Hades the
Old
Woman
eyes,
little
high,
dead of
consort,
up the
children,
in
NO KAWA, albeit
this labour
Yomi
Kuan, Sung
feet
of
Wu
is
made
everlasting
SANZU
Ugly females
of
The
representations of
Hell and
its
116
and
LEGEND
boiled,
chopped,
wealth of
and
it
o;n's
ground by grinning
with an
extraordinary
detail.
men
lucubrations, in which
their
are
JAPANESE ART.
IN
took
its
Hell
for
was
place
JIGOKU
is
called
NE NO KUNI
or
YOMI,
and
(Nihongi),
was
hells
visited
are frozen
lips
are frozen
the waters."
be found
295.
in the
lotus
hell,
cold,
"look
like a carpet of
white lotus on
Toung
HENJAKU
^jf *!j
series.
innkeeper
in
the
Chao province about the sixth century B.C., to whose house came the wizard
CHO So Kux (J|. jjji jjj Ch'ang sang Kung), who, detecting in his host
unusual attainments, taught him the rudiments of his
excelled the master,
spirits
to
are conveyed
first
art.
(i.e.,
to dissect the
of the channels
He
human
is
According to
body.
legend, however, he
depicted as a handsome
man
in
fine
raiment,
is
almost
HICHOBO
An
became a governor.
in the city
old
(FEI
q.v.)
Ko
Ko, with
went
whom
he
is
who
who
Jonan
sold drugs
Hichobo, observing
pay him
to
of
his respects,
often confused.
and
He
is
depicted riding on a crane in Ehon Hokan and in Sensai Yeitaku, but sometimes
like
Ko Ko
297.
HIDARI
Celebrated sculptor
JINGORO
who
lived
from
3L MR
1594
1*7
to
(Jingoro
1634.
it.
the
Amongst
left-handed).
his
famous
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
productions are the sleeping cat (nemuri no neko) in the temple of leyasu at
girl
on beholding the
damsel, he
fair
mirror,
fell
had dropped
When
in
Now,
its dress.
was com-
the statue
the
wood took
to
life,
and the carver became a happy man, but his loyalty to his lord was very great,
and when the head of the Daimio's daughter was requested by an enemy,
When
had
away came
to
man who
the
he had indeed murdered the Daimio's daughter, and severed his right hand.
the
much
to
sacred
like
precincts
the one
at
used
it
was deprived
of its
to
fields,
wandering
the
warrior in Japan,
greatest
title
TAIKO,
^^
HIDEYOSH1 (TOYOTOMI)
298.
meaning
retired
is
better
Prime
(jj|
).
Toyotomi HIDEVOSHI,
Minister,
or
by that
of
the
name
of
TAIKO SAMA.
of
Temmon
(1537).
when
He
received the
name
He then
sent
him
village
to
His
clever,
stepfather
although
had been a
full
of mis-
was returned
sent to
of HIYOSHI
to his
on with several masters, who could never keep him for more than a
month. Finally, when twenty years old, he became a servant of Matsushita
and
so
great
9 P
2S
- a!
= O
a
~i
Q -
LEGEND
confidence
suit of
One
him.
in
day,
lad,
JAPANESE ART.
IN
them that
in
to
were
Nobunaga
Momen
Tokichi.
proposed to
name
received his
of
KIXOSHITA HIDEYOSHI.
In
In
war against Asakura Yoshikage was rewarded with 30,000 kokn of rice.
1573 he attacked the castle of Odani and captured Asai Nagamasa, whose
He then, in 1574, built
personal estate of 180,000 koku became his reward.
for himself the castle of
as his
new
family
name
from the names of two of his generals, NIWA (Ha) and SHIBATA, and adopted
the Kiri crest
five
years subjugated
In
that
1583
very
In
(Pawlonia Imperialis).
night
hurried back
to
it,
and on
He
then
Akechi
Nobunaga: hence
He had
his
and
his uncle,
left
in the
of
Lieutenant-General, but
of
resigned these
Nobuo, acted as
hands
title
were actually
He
killed
Shibata Katsuiye, who, with Nobutaka, third son of Nobunaga, had plotted
to
destroy him.
He
Tokugawa
leyasu
was
afraid of him.
his influence
was then
with Nobuo to attack HIDEYOSHI, but was beaten and had to give his son
as hostage.
In 1584 HIDEYOSHI
became Dainagon
119
in
LEGEND
IN
ART.
JAPANESE
to
was
objected,
HIDEYOSHI, with
but
150,000 men,
him
defeated
year.
to
title
SHIMAZU,
the following
in
In 1590 he attacked
commands, and
his
he defeated them.
When
Kamukura
he entered
said that he
is
it
went
to a
temple where
was kept a
statue of
"
who
will send
In
sent to
in Hizen,
and promised
HIDEYOSHI that
to
King.
first
Ming ?
advanced to Nagoya,
who
of
"
He
army
he
if
be
to
He subjugated
hand
his
it
Taiko
drove
tearing
He
country*.
the
letter
to
then assembled a
the
three
great
ki}
the Coreans,
pieces
new army
the
Ming Emperor.
to be rude,
to invade
See
also
GOYEMON
the
see
ISIIIKAWA
KATO KIYOMASA.
HIDEYOSHI
When
is
he led his army through Hakone, before the battle of Ishikake yama,
s The
original letter
served under Hideyoshi.
is,
however, preserved to this day in the private collection of a noble whose ancestors
2O
KARHKAVA DOSHIN
(By courtesy af Messrs.
'ainamika)
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
that he killed
it
the
man.
MASAMUNE (who
Pope
some
hit
in
pet
became Daimio
later
servant, he
fight,
monkey hid
its
he then
monkey showed no
When Date Masamune was introduced in
more
and
of Mutsu,
until
fist
the
itself
usual manner.
knowing nothing
of
concluded that Date was a very strong man, rather to be feared, and with
whom
it
299.
would be policy
to be friendly.
Tsung of the Tang dynasty, circa, 845 A.D. He had the power of ubiquity,
was followed about by wild beasts, and his magic knowledge was unequalled.
Once, when received in audience by the Emperor, a court lady chided him, and
he caused her to be transformed into a wrinkled hag until she beseeched his
forgiveness,
when he allowed
with
KEN EN SHYU,
after
several
whom
of
centuries of
life,
He
is
is
identical
written that he
had not
failed in
HIKKEN
ifl
$i
or KOSEI,
also
KONGOSHU Bosatsu.
One
it
is
of
the
a trans-
formation of Vadjrapani.
301.
IIIKOHICHI
OMORI
-fc
121
^ ^
(often
given
as
OMORI
LEGEND
HIKOSHISHI), represented as a
(Hannya or
One
of
JAPANESE ART.
IN
demon
vassal
Kij'o).
Ashikaga Takauji
beautiful
at
woman who
the battle
of
met
he
1342,
saw
in
Minatogawa,
of
in
when
Takenobu's
in
followers of Yoshisada
Minatogawa
Go
(see
and
apparently
Tales,
differs
taken
from
The
at
The
noticing her,
there.
victors
later to his
house.
The
scuffle
in
which the
appeared,
through
Dogo's
on the road
and he
statements,
the
of
to the dance,
CHIHAYA,
girl
and
refused,
flatly
resulted,
HIKOHICHI
seeing
girl
daughter
of
on
the
claimed
Sumiyoshi
her
as
temple.
relative
He
then
spy.
juncture
girl
and,
of his,
the
took
the
Kusunoki
The
girl,
Masashige,
who was no
putting
on
other than
her
face
Hannya mask, drew a dagger and tried to cut HIKOHICHI'S throat, saying
"Remember the death of Masashige and the sacred dagger you took from
him."
She thought that he had caused her father to commit harakiri.
:
HIKOHICHI, however, had recognised her at the beginning, and he told her
so,
t It is interesting to note that in European folklore witches were credited with being unable to cross
water without taking the appearance of devils.
122
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
to explain
heads
to
valuable
it
blade,
the
till
the
Ashikaga,
peace
latter
was
the
necessary
the
meantime
seen
the
the
attack
Masashige
him
told
the
girl
instructions
his
of
and
DAIGO,
He gave
restored.
Go
him from
to
gift
the dagger
recognised
dagger
who
retainers,
to
keep
and
his
unmolested to
return
to
as
had
taken
to
the
flight
if
he
were
Masashige's
come and
to
ghost,
of
him
fight
if
he
dared,
he
departed.
HIMONO.
302.
see
Dried
FISH
(dried),
Oni Yarai.
303.
HINADORI
304.
of the
See KUGANOSUKE.
|}ft Jjj.
Daughter
Go
of
DAIGO.
tooth-marked chestnut.
HIOCHO
305.
/j
J^.
One
of the Chinese
HIRAI YASUMASA.
307.
HIRU KO NO MIKOTO
couple, Izanagi
fisherman,
308.
and the
battle of
@|
ifc,
or
to
first
fP J$[
the Kusanagi no Tsurugi, which was
Dan no
See YASUMASA.
HIRUNOGOZA NO TSURUGI
substituted for
sages,
Vol. III.
Mangwa,
306.
creative
and
see
fish;
sword
of
is
jfc
sacred sword
Yamato Dake
(q.v.),
123
lost
The
Tenno.
LEGEND
HITOBAN
309.
^|
51-
JOt
JAPANESE ART.
IN
See
MYTHICAL FOREIGNERS.
HITOMARU
310.
A. ^L
simmon
like
shown,
One
makimono.
reads
tree,
God
of Poetry,
Harima, and at
Ichi
no Moto.
poets,
seated
in
the
one
is
with temples
He
the foot
at
tree (Kaki)
most
HITOMARU
NO
deified as
and was
KAKINOMOTO
>)
(ffi
He
lived
in
of
a per-
is
usually
Japanese
of his
Ashibiki no
tpine
Yamadori no wo no
wo no
Shidari
5
"
Longer
oh,
how much
"
alone.
Jfc
HOHODEMI
the
famous
brother
his
bow
tail
of
your
for
one
who
pheasants
shall
new
sleep
^A&
IE
^,
or
YAMA
his
calling with
UMI
fisher,
whose hook he
until
lost.
his
brother,
UMI
refused to return to
because their change of sport had proved a failure in both cases, and
tried
ill-
He once changed
hunter.
the
Isshiu.
is
long
Hiakku Nin
HIYEIZAN
311.
how
mountains,
Undulating
Yama
to
hooks, but
it
was
all in
who
directed
that search
made amongst the fishes. The hook was found in the throat of
and Riujin sent Hohodemi back on a crocodile (Want) to his brother
should be
the Tai,
to return the
hook
in such
He
way
also gave
that
him
Umi would be
the
124
two jewels
greatly impoverished
of the
LEGEND
ebbing
whose
with
tides,
contortions
which
are
313.
HOJO
j|[
was
he
This
et seq.
subdue
to
later
in
WAXI
called the
314.
from
of Prosperity.
King
HOJO
1200
till
;jb
his attribute
1333
were the
This name
real
is
He
in
1199,
forced abdication
influence
their
better
HOCHO.
read
"
Kamakura
who
Shikken,"
The
first
When
the
through the
whom
is
more
is
no helmet, and he
Hunter.
is
Celebrated family of
his
by
Happy
South.
the
are
performed
Umi,
TOYOTAMA HIME.
fljf-.
brother
elder
dances
court
the
his
is
ZOCHO (Virudhaka),
usually called
ART.
JAPANESE
mimicked
IN
They
To
failed.
(see
Society,
1907).
315.
Fifth
HOJO TOKIYORI
shikken,
who
^b
& $f fl-
See NICHIREN
HOKEN.
317.
HOKEN ZENSHI
FENG KAN.
Shown
"
Four Sleepers
318.
feet
mad
Chinese general.
riding upon,
Sennins,
f|
Hachi no Ki.
to
be founded,
He
is
often
repre-
See SOMPIN.
(also
BUKAN ZENSHI)
or sleeping near a
tiger,
or
in
(Shi
company
Te)
(q.v.
").
HOKYOSHA
f|$ ife
evil-quelling sword.
see
Kamakura
Mount
used to
U.
sit
on a
He found on
flat
it
clouds, from
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
HOMMA MAGOSHIRO
319.
in the
TAKAUJI'S
fish
of
army
in his
fUJ
to
fell
of
this
in the sea.
story.
it
carries
is
fastened
the head,
Wada
at
Archer
j| 0J I|$ |T
While the army was awaiting the attack 'of
NITTA YOSHISADA.
as
came
fleet
nothing for
letter,
SHIGEU.TI
divinities
it
on
HONMA SUKEMASA ^
320.
is
shown
in
Son
of
"My
how anxious
to follow him."
321.
fortunate
crane,
HORAI
Islands
of
and the
the tortoise,
mention
made
is
HOKAIZANT.
grow
stag,
or
of
Elysian
Isle,
mountains
of the three
everlasting
in profusion, besides
an isolated arrangement of
HORSE.
One
322.
home
the
Paradise,
as
^ gt
am
$}
life,
in
the
live
the
the pine,
the
where
tree,
-its
in
place
Japanese
gardening
tortoise.
Jg.
HANGWAN,
HORSE OF
was
given
thought that
to
Ris
1000
Sen Ri no Uma.
this
for
monstrous yellow
Inaba,
but
gift
(miles)
several
it
Fujifusa
accorded
See HIROARI.
126
in
the.
HIEN YUAN
TSI (ir.L.K.)
GIONJI I'RIKST
(O.C.R.)
HO.NMA SUKEMASA
(j.)
().)
HITOMARU (.!/..)
HAXKWAI (/<.)
HORSE AM) GOURD.
OMORI
HIKOIIICI1I
HANHEI
(7..V.I.)
(ll.y.K.)
(G.ll..\.)
LEGEND
The HORSE
JAPANESE ART.
IN
emblematic of manhood.
is
of
with
back
its
between
and
a.m.
name
Its
legs.
i
p.m. ^p.
horse and
with
plum
flower,
and
to
is
One
One meets
occasionally with
it
monkey with
in front of
to
their
which he dances
in
Xew
about
priests
Year's
Day,
In
companion.
to a pole
^ J^
title
and
mind and
>^\ %j^
ba shin yen, a
above
to the character
)ft
emblematic of a
restless
is
monkey
is
emblematic
monkey
It
is
mind, as
it
it.
of selfishness.
by a chain
of fine teachings,
restlessness of
mind
the stable.
under the
(II),
the
of the
In Ehon Hokan
If
is
in
who
In connection
presentments of the
It
w hich
r
rat,
are,
or horary characters, as the horse, one of the signs of the Zodiac, represented
the
i
first
a.m.).
old
in
be found
The names
burial
of
hour of night
the dead,
whom
figures
they were
in the stories to
p.m. to
(n
and will
BATEISEKI,
GENTOKU,
KAJIWARA
KAGESUYE).
127
are
Horses
frequently
standing
met
with
with
as
LEGEND
netsuke (see Behrens'
"
JAPANESE ART.
IN
In pictorial treat-
Society).
ment, the fewer the number of brush strokes the more clever the work, seems
to have been a constant motto, another feature being the
numbers
of large
a great
other animals.
many
mounted
their horses
right,
of convenience
the
in
headgear
not clear.
is
first
horse head or a
or
case,
dislike
as
mounts
crowding together
applies, of course, to
in
feed
It
on the
same
the
in their stables so as to
for
in
of horses
other,
either as
the festivals
at
of
(Aston, Shinto).
becoming
Kanaoka, which went grazing at night, and to the picture of which peg
and tether had to be added to keep him indoors. See also HIDARI JINGORO.
of
There
horse
is
figured
the horse
is
used
modelling a horse
leaving marks
is
of
in the
is
his
all
water with
illustrated,
clay,
of chess,
game
sen,
move forward.
A man
named Komashiki
is
of miles,
became a
fell
it
In
and
jewel.
he sprayed
if
He
is
one of
the Sennins."
of a
Sennin
"
HOSO
320.
man
HOSHO
323.
|j
jjjfl
TR.
(or
HOSO-SENKO.
jj*) or
He was
man
of
in
the guise
(q.v.)
breath every three days, and could sleep in the water for a day at a time, or
lay motionless for a year,
fifty
till
is
identified
thick.
After living
He
him an inch
He
is
referred to in a joke of
later
TOBOSAKU.
LEGEND
He
or patriarch of P'eng.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
is
Emperor Chwan Hii, SENKYO (see SEIUKO). He was 767 years old
the end of the Yin dynasty in 1123 B.C., and appears to have lived nearly
son, of the
at
HOSO
325.
Chang) sent
known
later
in
~Jj
1123
Chinese general
^j.
HOSOKAWA
326.
the attacks of Si
to resist
B.C.
YUSAI
whom CHOW
jfgH
Muh ($
&
Jlj
^.
owed
SIN
jj^J"
Peh (Ch'ang
(Show
of
of
Chow),
See Buwo.
f Bokuya).
in
and
HOTARU.
327.
mentioned
War
the
largest
and
Taira
species
is
The
GAMES.
under
fireflies,
bright
number
dragon
her
fire
Genji
Botaru, and
are
associated
with
its
flies
members
but
HIME
jj.
lived in the
coquettish
Story of the
moat
firefly
of the castle of
daughter,
lover.
Hi O, the King of
in
turn by a
of lovers,
fly,
it
The hawk moth, however, had more cunning, and crawled inside
paper wick of a candle, but the candle was snuffed before he reached
burnt.
the
Ujigawa
(q.v.).
HOTARU
the
of
KIYOTADA
fireflies
called
Fireflies.
129
LEGEND
the flame.
wooed
her.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
firefly
happened to hear of the trouble, came round, and successBut even unto this day, when the priests find dead insects
around the temple lamps, they say: "Princess Hotaru must have had many
lovers to-night
"
(Griffis).
The game
of
which
is
of
after
many
Kumazawa
a scholar named
girl,
Banzan.
He
HOTEI
|.
tf\
One
is
fell
in love
of the
the
with a
Tokaido Road,
fireflies.
fireflies,
years
found a blind
328.
firefly-catching at
joyously laughing,
his
away
he stows
the
it,
either to sleep or
Sometimes shown
in
by boys, and then called Kitntma So, the waggon priest, oftener seen carrying
in one hand his bag and in the other a Chinese fan, or balancing on his
shoulder, at either end of a coolie pole, the bag of precious things and a boy.
In
some
hand a clam
shell,
How-
bowl, or interchanging attributes with some of the other Shichi Fuku Jin.
ever
of this
emblem
of contentment,
mountain
"
Hotei sometimes receives the appellation, Shichi Hiaku Sai,
flesh.
it
is
of
The Sage
of Seven Centuries."
He
is
CHISHI (Keishi)*,
who
lived at
Ming Chu
(the present
* Puini
(he. cit.) says, according to the Sogenjiro, his name
the Semingshan the Dentoroku calls him Choteishi.
Fung hwa, on
130
was
Keishi,
Xth
century,
Nimpo
monk
of the
in
named
Chekiang),
Gakurun Temple
of
IIOTEI
HOTEI IN BAG
(,;.)
II'PKN
SHONIX
KARAKO AND
(;;./...)
HOTEl's BAi;
INARI (.I/.GV.)
(.;.)
LEGEND
IN
JAPANESE ART.
and who was popularly called Putai no San Mr. Linen Bag from the sack
in which he carried his scanty belongings and whatever edibles were given
In the course of his travels,
him.
his vocation as a
Buddha
begging
his
craft of
a fortune-teller with
priest,
dividing
combining the
poem
often
myriads,
who
appeared to people
knew nothing of it. It seems that folks took this for a statement that he
was Maitreya, and then began picturing him. He died about 916 (Teimei 3).
In old books an easy
character
Vol.
way
Kokoro forming
>|^
of
his
drawing Hotei
arms,
neck
is
and
VI.).
HOTOKE
329.
doors statue)
ffi.
The
is
who
seek nutrition
to place
by invading the
Umi
Hotoke
HOWO
330.
the Phoenix.
It
Hwang, and
tail
long
peacock,
is
it
the
is
usually
idea
its
of
like
It
is
a composite
five principal
yellow, white
virtues
parts of
its
body
of virtuous rulers,
and
it
The Phoenix
is
Yao Shun
Han
in the
five
colours
its
during the
called
and
its
is
Bird,
corresponding to the
gorgeously
of
(in
represented as a
somewhat
description of either.
myth;
FENG
is
feathers,
the
Hono
JH, Jin or
dynasty.
Dragon
in
works of
art,
or,
like
LEGEND
catch
to
it
which
besides
creature of
it
is
the
some Sages.
331.
HUANG
332.
IBUKI
which
JAPANESE ART.
IN
attribute
See BAIFUKU
SHI KUNG.
YAMA
itself
Imperial
(Pawlonia),
authority
RIOGIOKU.
See KOSEKIKO.
Mountain
$*' Pfc
til-
Deity changed
of
tree
in
and Yamato
this creature
Wi SAME
his senses
named
(stand sober).
ICHIMOKU
333.
centre
mount he recovered
of
Cyclops, and
who
"live out
of the
North
Sea."
ICHIMOKUREN
334.
jj|.
Divinity of Tado,
IDATEN
shown
tion,
and
his
as a
J|L
young man
his feet as
Jfc
Ufa
Buddhist
of
specially
often
IGA
DAIGO'S Court.
he carries
halberd,
shown pursuing an
336.
martial character
It
Ise,
name.
335.
by
rain.
in
his
sword.
NO TSUBONE
$**
Jjjj.
is
also
depicted
Like Bishamon, he
away
woman of Go
by Ko NO MORONAO,
celebrated strong
following the flight of the Empress, she found the river Yoshino swollen by a
other side.
See KIYOTADA.
132
LEGEND
337.
IKAZUCHI
The
ff.
Gods
eight
Thunder
of
O-Ikazuchi, HO-NO-
WAKi-Ikazuchi,
SAKU-Ikazuchi,
KuRO-Ikazuchi,
Ikazuchi,
JAPANESE ART.
IN
TsucHi-Ikazuchi,
the
338.
IKIRIYO
339.
IKKIU
REIGAN
of a living person.
fife.
JIGOKU
hetaira
Ghost
fH.
(q.v.),
with
whom
XVth
century,
he
often
is
who adopted
See
pictured.
also SAIGYO.
In the Tei-yo-shu of the
book Ten
composed by
Ikkiu,
shu-shi, there
first
is
stanza of which
of the poetess
poem
is
>
Kikishi yori
/>
>
0*9
Mite osoroshiki
*>'/-,
Jigoku kana
Jigoku (Hell)
is
more awful
fall
down
1395 to
mo
me yawa.
Ochizara
"
'
*"*
that
is
why
the
"
(Gilbertson).
1481,
the painter,
of
Soga
Jasoku.
The head
priest
of
had a very
temple
his priests to
valuable
porcelain
Once, however,
whom
dropped
thinking
how
it,
incense- burner
....
Abbot," he
but
things?"
....
Then
"Must be broken,"
features of the
what?"
visitors,
was broken.
Koro,
one of
They were
when one
of the
"
:
All fragile
to detect,
and as
his
answer was uttered, the young Ikkiu presented to his gaze the remnants of the
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
His presence of mind not only gained the monks their pardon,
broken Koro.
IKKAKU SENNIN
340.
$j
f[Jj
horn Sage)
(single
sometimes
is
resist
that he
earth on
He
Mount Dankatola.
home on
carried
he
his
No
of the
INARI
341.
and
it
same name.
is
lived in
whom
he
woman on
IXARI
or
^nf,
cultivated
first
He
his shoulders.
SAMA.
This name
is
the hero of a
signifies
load of
rice,
He then
rice,
it
carrying on his
to the
August
of the
its
It
is
thought that
of rice,
man
of his temple.
God
and
See KIRIN.
Tradition has
Yashiro.
is
however, to the
is,
love with
in
fell
of living in the
power
version
correct
Vivandaka and
of
back
his
The
the spot.
loss of his
Spirit of
Food
Deity, or
Fox
(Kitsune),
shown
Inari.
Sama
in the guise of
is
often described
first
horse day
(Uma
on them, and
INARI
(November
is
is
usually
the
a bearded old
In the
as
offer
them
red,
yellow and
blue,
make
little
flags
of
to the temple.
also worshipped
8th), held in
KAMIYA
'34
(q.v.).
It
is
also worshipped as
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Fox
See
and Aston
also KOKAJI
342.
INKADA SONJA.
343.
INKI
shown
sitting
f3*
and
III.,
See ARHATS
YiN-Hi or KOBUN
on the ground
He
sit."
INKI
some
lived
B.C.
hundred years
five
IXKI
|P"
but
1070,
of
the
latter
^].
lotus
the
Hokusai's J\Iangiva,
in
^[
is
also
Vol.
Taoist legends
the
Hankuh
for
but holding
figured,
in
West by a black
besought Lao Tsze to
him with
credit
obedience to a
Lao
the passage of
the
to
on which
flower seat
life,
was taken
"
revelation,
When
about
[;
shown reading
is
the
RAKANS.
of
front
in
Shinto.
Tsze.
which had
buffalo
instruct
him, and
he received from the master manuscript of his work, the Tao Teh King.
INKYO
344.
no sport
the
God
he had the matter investigated by his diviners, and was told that
of the Island
of the sea,
woman named
island were
summoned, but
SASAJI
of
their
efforts
the crowd,
at the
All
the
in vain.
fish.
were
bottom
was ordered
to dive
and the Emperor swore that if she did not succeed he would kill
her husband. She found the jewel hidden in a large clam, and fell dead as
again,
she laid
345.
of
INYAKU
|J
in
it
1275,
IPPEN
j|||.
Buddhist priest
life
key.
who founded
the
Ji
or JISHU sect
as
LEGEND
themes for
many
It
prints.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
every time
that
said
is
he made a convert,
he started dancing with his co-workers, repeating the while the invocation
to the
Buddha Amithaba.
Some
Kokkwa
pictures
amongst which
relations,
was engaged
in
deep
Ippen
study.
snatched
monk had a
This
Guide
Go,
his
spot.
it
is
related (Murray's
Japan, 2nd edition) that once while the two ladies were playing
to
Ippen
saw
them
take
form of
the
heads
the
of
witches.
Once, when he was staying at the palace of the Daimio of Fuji, the
wife of the Prince became instantly converted, and leaving the castle went
to
that
he would
the
kill
priest,
in
which
Ippen was seated (apparently teaching the nun) he was struck with awe, and
throwing to the ground his drawn sword, he prostrated himself and was also
converted.
IPPEN died
347.
Western
in
IPPI
Sea,
1289.
^.
half
Mythical
who walk
in
"like fishes
pairs
or
birds,"
one
Kimmo
dzue,
V.),
left-
without
arm
and long
each,
hair.
ISETSU
Ifi
Chinese
'|J5.
Sage
in the
sides
who
became one
ISHIGAMI
/j
of the
Jffi.
No
349.
being
the
"
:
will
a coloured
go up to the sky on
Immortals.
Rock.
136
bells
and fan
the
God
HOWO
((,.7.)
IKKAKU
HOWO AND
JOFUKU
(.-;.)
KIRIX
(,;.)
JIXCO KOGO
.H'ROJIX
JO.MYO AT UJI
(../.)
(.^.)
GAWA
(G./fM.)
LEGEND
IN
350.
ISHIKAWA GOYEMON.
351.
ISHO
^ Jl>
JAPANESE ART.
See GOYEMON.
or YOKI.
DEVA, described as one of the sons of Benten, and often figured with a
bundle of clothing.
ISHUKU
352.
He
lotus flower.
IWAGENKAI
353.
^f.
ff
fP
ffi
was
354.
IWANAGA
355.
IWASHI,
356.
IWAZARU.
357.
IZANAGI
sent
make and
by
the
and
sea,
% 7%
Sardine.
$$.
Taoist
He
rode,
without a
worthy
bridle,
grass.
Upon
See AKOYA.
See FISH.
ffi
ffi
(.
The
Heavenly Deities
creative
(according
of
Divinity
to
Shintoist
Japan,
who
teachings)
to
the Deity
sister,
IZA-NA-MI-NO-KAMI, with the help of a jewelled spear, which they used from
the
Bridge of Heaven to
Onogoro.
stir
the
thus
brine
is
of
reckoned
the centre pillar of the land, they entered into a rather indelicate courtship
(set
forth in Latin
in
number
of
Deities.
number
After
of
giving
Islands
birth
to
and
later
to
an equally large
Kagutsuchi,
Izanami died, and Izanagi killed one of his children, from whose body and
blood were created eight more deities.
He then set forth to YOMI, the
yellow stream (Hades), to see IZANAMI, and call her back, but he was too
late.
He took no heed
of her
body
of her
(see IKAZUCHI).
Yomo Tsu
LEGEND
Shiko Me to pursue him.
IN
JAPANESE ART.
He however escaped
garments
and belongings, which formed eatables for the ugly female, and he blocked
the door of Hades with a rock which a thousand men could barely move;
IZANAMI
ffi
f^'
$ft
Kami
358.
IZORA.
359.
IZENSHUN
thereafter
2p!
See JINGO.
f^.
deities.
One day
feed.
He was
clog.)
off
and had
the
to
Heaven.
H ^.
360.
JAKO
361.
JEWEL
One
See TAMA.
(sacred).
See INJAKU.
some Arhats.
HACHIMAN
JIDO
jjj|.
MAGATAMA.
see
(q.v.).
The
Sennin,
TSZE TUNG,
netsuke,
363.
like
for
JIGEN DAISHI
H& ^C
Posthumous
gift.
century,
JIGOKU
JIJIN
jfa
is
priest of
fjfc.
^C-
gfc >fc
Jflj
of the soil.
367.
iflj
JIGOKU REIGAN
who was adopted by
KEUH
the poet
in
TENKAI who,
the Tendai Sect, and
title
of
See HELL.
Famous Hetaira
IKKIU
(q.v.)
She
the
of
is
also
XVth
called
Jffl.
or divinities,
protective
JIKAKU
^ ^
(DAISHI
terrific
ftp).
Buddhist
priest
who, coming
sea,
to appease
LEGEND
the waters,
had carved
to
of
God
of
own
The
JAPANESE ART.
IN
to
figure
its
eye disease.
presence
was revealed
to the priests in
his Yajra,
taki,
which never
dries up.
JIKOKU TEN $f
368.
of
Heaven,
|cj
One
Ji.
It
of
is
the SHI
DHRITARACHTRA.
JIKOKU
Meru.
He
supports
is
the
mountain
heavenly
Buddhist
fiction,
Mount
as
represented
of
JIMMU TENNO f$
369.
JINGORO.
370.
^^
First
Emperor of Japan,
a warrior, with abundant hair and beard.
Left
handed
Jl.
sculptor, better
known
usually
as HIDARI JINGORO.
KOGO
JINGO
371.
KASHI IDAI
f$ $] Jl jg
OKINAGA TARASU
HIME,
or
also
Empress of Japan.
Always shown in the garb of a
warrior, and usually with a wide band around her forehead*, often in the
MIOJIN,
OJIN
company
of her
SUKUNE.
See HACHIMAN.
The
son,
TENNO,
and
of
her
The
minister,
TAKENOUCHI
Emperor CHIUAI,
NO
to conquer
Okinaga Tarashi, as her name then was), and she transmitted the
request to the Emperor, who said: "There is no land to the west, these
rather
The
Gawa, with
The Empress
She stopped
LEGEND
being a lucky omen.
would part
have come
Izora,
as
she
to
her aid,
who
"borrow the
with
it
if
in
and
mud,
Kami
whom
The Korean
tide-ruling jewels."
Kami
All the
parted.
came clad
later
JAPANESE ART.
IN
fleet
she
the
of
sent
came
are said to
sea-shore,
to
to
Riujin
to
missively offered her their country, after which she planted her lance
upon
when
OJIN,
her
waist,
came back
whose
was born,
of
had
she
birth
delayed
the
attaching a heavy
by
bow
her
to
She
mouth), at Sakai.
(open
the words
stone
in
to Japan,
Koku
often
is
upon a
(ruler of state)
rock.
JIRAIYA j& f|
372.
Lord of Ogata,
in his
ili
by
in
DOJIN,
At the death
killed,
of
was
had
to
take
refuge
in
murder
her,
but
pieces,
who
was
the
of
their chief.
In
broken to
Jiraiya's retainer
become
snowstorm, and
woman.
man
or
,g|]
-Jj
rich old
[H
revealed
Toad
Spirit,
his
into
and
sword
was
a man, SENSO
finally
taught
him
all
of the Snail,
to
enable Jiraiya to
who
kill
lived at the
One day
while they were resting in a temple, the snake crawled upon the ceiling of
the room, and poured
him with
own
Jiraiya.
its
venom upon
The Abbot
of
140
who had
fled
away
from
LEGEND
only available
elixir.
made Daimio
of IDZU.
with
JAPANESE ART.
and
occasion,
IN
magical
He
preparations
is
in
spirit
(see
This
Griffis).
story
JISSHUDO
373.
"df
$,
?|n),
drawn
in
an
sell
elixir
vitre
for
fishes.
120,000 cash;
governor wished him to bring some to his palace, but Jisshudo then refused
to sell it for less than 1,200,000 cash, saying that a rich man could afford to
try
"
Doryo
He awoke and
JITTOKU
said
"
:
How
far
is
this
place from
ffi.
KANZAN
(q.v.),
and
tiger.
his
BUKEN ZENSMI,
mountains by Buken Zenshi, who
that his foundling was an incarna-
in the
(the
Four).
Chinese
sage
is
See
also
Rishi,
depicted
with
priest,
besom,
after
lengthy
After
what Ling Yii thought of his knowledge.
a weary journey, he bowed before the philosopher, who, instead of asking
"
What were your
Hiang Yen's studies, simply said
"
duties before your birth ?
and, on receiving no satisfactory answer but a
"
request for his own opinion, replied
My opinion is but my own what
good would
his
it
The
back to
temple and continued his studies, but after a few years, comparing the
141
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
allayed hunger
where Su chung once had lived. One day, sweeping the ground, he sent a
stone flying against a big bamboo, the trunk of which gave a ringing sound.
This
him
reminded
"
understood, and
of
he saw truth
JIUGO DOJI
375.
Ling
-f- 3JL
Yii's
reply,
the
of
depth
which
he
now
"
(Ehon Hokmi).
"The
Ip.
(q.v.)-
JIU XI
376.
Kings,
-f*
5E, or Jiu
NI
TEN ~h
H 5.
Buddhistic
Ill,
p.
20} illustrates
3^.-
illi
(Vol.
them as follows
(Sanskrit),
woman
holding in
her right hand a basket of peonies, the right hand held in a miidra.
GWATEX
in her right
/)
Jfc.
hand a
illustrates
Japonais,
or Soma, a
a somewhat
woman
holding
different
The head
is
is
moon
hare
God
BISIIAMON
of Riches;
J|, ^!?
(q- v -)>
P^ ^C
Kuvera, one of the Shi Tenno, and as such Guardian of the North.
was canonized
as
God
of Riches
by Hiuen Tsung
in 753,
him and
raised
him
Riches,
is
and
is
193).
He
left
|"J
when
as one
^, meaning
LEGEND
"universal hearing"
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Sometimes he
(Eitel).
is
or by KICHIJO TEN.
An
on a
tortoise,
FUTEN
Jill
An
SHIN).
^i
Vasu, the
(q-v.),
man
old
Deva
coiled a snake.
is
of the
holding in his
these
left
article
of leopard skin,
form, as an
om carrying
wind bag,
is
described in the
FUTEN.
SUITEX
7jC
^C
(q- v -)'
God
Gods
of the Waters, he
Heaven
of
man
and with
hand a sword,
five
left
BONTEX
hand
in his left
is
that of a
fj| ^Ij
^.
if
ready to
query mark,
strike.
raised in a miidra.
RASETSU TEX
hand, the
Jalapiti,
in which, as
sitting
of the West,
Brahmanic Pantheon,
in the
Guardian
also
He
is
the
King
of the Rakshasis.
NITTEN
f]
in the
^.
mudra
is
directed
downwards,
(q.v.)
described by
in
the
$j|
?']
ffi
eyes,
^.
fierce figure,
H3
LEGEND
The
left
in
JAPANESE ART.
IN
and which
the forehead,
to
according
the
often called
is
was seated
mountains
the
in
meditating.
His wife Uma, coming behind him, playfully clapped her hands
on
when
his
eyes,
was suddenly
the world
Siva's favourite
mount, a white
is
bull,
The
written
is
identifies
description,
^ t&
fjP*
of interest,
"f
[-4
>
as an attempt
in its short
(q.v.),
J|t
by Buddhists
to
which
The
is
fact
TAISHAKU TEN
*j^ fa|
Sakra,
3^-
Devas, to
as a
KWATEN ^C
The
^C..
$jj
$, and
He
was depicted
seven arms and three
figure he
thread,
a garland
He may be
of
a red
as
legs,
fruit,
fire
riding on
etc.,
ram,
in
leaves
Brahmanic
In the
Hindoo
wearing
Brahmanical
the
his
YEMMA TEN
jfc
JH
The Deva
^.
of
man
mouth.
wood-
Wood Engraving.
Hades,
The Butsu
his
right
hand a
sceptre
various appearances of
says that
Yemma
him
in
are
dealt
with in a separate
article.
of the
The
Eitel
South
LEGEND
and Judge
Dead.
the
of
Buddhist lore he
In
his earthly
having during
JAPANESE ART.
IN
is
life
is
the head.
in the
in
way
Besides the
in
JITRI
377.
only
their
head
Kimmo
(Todo
5J^
is
dzue).
half
Mythical
^Ij.
men,
in
the
etc.
number
is
soft
FOREIGNERS.
The Indian
BOSATSU (Chinese, Ti TSANG).
It is
KSHITEGARBHA, sometimes thought to be a form of Kwannon.
JIZO
378.
deity,
Jjjj.
^,
or
Jix.o
the
such
the
as
Never
Slumbering,
the
Dragon
Diamond
Praiser,
of
He
or
is
or ringed
etc.
Tamo) and
Piety,
staff,
a lotus
flute.
He spends most
of his
time in the Sat no Kaivara, the river of souls, with the children, helping them
to pile stones as prayers (see HELL).
forms,
called
Roku Jizo
patron of pregnant
(the
women
and
Six
He
Jizo),
he receives the
as such his
name KOYASU
figure
is
often
Jizo.
He
is
As
also
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
often
jawless,
is
He
is
Jizo), whilst
AGONASHI Jizo
the
(q.v.),
because
of
numerous
his
he
no
"If one
tatsu."
"Jizo no
"
...
his
straightens
belly
Kao mo
or
less
Jizo,
"Abuse
literally:
of
was a human being who lived ten thousand Kos before the Christian
and who, being filled with the desire to convert all living beings of the
era,
six
worlds and the four births, was enabled to multiply his body so as to be at
same time amongst them all in the six states of transient existence, or
Roku Sho, namely, Jigoku, Gaki, Chikusho, Shura, Ningen, Tenjo, whose
Once a monk was taken by Ono no
dwellers were thereby converted.
the
Takamura
to
visit
Yemma, and
in
Hades found
Jizo
who expressed his disgust at the lack of worshippers on earth, and when the
monk came back to his temple he started upon a statue of Jizo which was
It is now in the temple of
miraculously finished by a supernatural being.
Yata
no
Jizo,
was
Saito
near Nara.
sent to
is
sword when
In
arm
very
curious
arm with
in
fuchi-kachira
Yemma O
fishing;
two
oni,
Vol.
full
/.,
article
and
Toku Den
Jizo
upon
also
in
ffl.
ffi
As a transformation
be found in Hearn's
the
of
will
shown
is
Unfamiliar Japan,
See also the
Kan
Hayashi Tanji.
of Jizo,
is
called Keisho
or Akujo.
379.
JO AND UBA
and
jj
[^ $>
146
U #].
The
Spirits
hunting the
JIRAIYA (r./..)
jo (M.E.)
JUROJIN
(IV.L.S.'J
JIRAIYA
JIZO
(a.ir.)
(J/.CC.)
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
There
is
No
in
(XVth
of
century).
The two
old
are
people
and the
SUWA
accompanied
usually
by
attributes
the
of
tortoise.
those of the
spirits are
who were
Daimiojin,
in
command
of Jingo's fleet of a
but
barges,
the
and wedded
who was
Both
her.
KURA NO
and pursue
their
human shape
work
to
abide in the
spirits
revisit
fell
tree,
but on
See
KODAMA
Jo.
On weddings
the
Takasago no Utai
380.
who
JOFUKU
Sii
f$; j|.
Fuh),
is
recited,
and
JOTOMBA,
wedding room.
physician, Su
SHE
of
who was
figures of
sent
it
was
to
most important Chinese books, sailing away never to return. These books are
sometimes credited with being the only ones to have escaped the general
destruction which
anachronism, as
B.C.
of
the
in
212.
This
is
Mayers says
LEGEND
the fleet
that although
was
JAPANESE ART.
IN
steered
JOFUKU
is
381.
JOGA.
382.
JOGEN FUJIN
See MOON.
J:
% ^c
A-
in the period of
Gempo,
Emperor Wu Ti, of the Han dynasty. She rode a unicorn, and wore a blue
Her hair was partly made up into three plaits and partly loose, reaching
coat.
to her waist.
383.
JOKWA
and successor
of
i^.
"$
FUH
Hi.
(KuNG KUNG),
of the
by the
two erstwhile
fire,
is
variously told.
sister
When KOKAI
rivals,
the generals
HAKO and
EIDO, and
down
knocked with
his
"Imperfect Mountain."
the
five colours,
JOKWA
of
the sacred
repaired
and
tortoise;
red;
of
of the
JORAN CHO
385.
JOMYO
ffi
tortoise, entirely
to
in the
pieces
white.
Taira army.
When
by the Minamoto,
during the revolt of Yorimasa, to prevent the Taira from crossing the Ujigawa,
the cross beams were left in place.
Jomyo sprung then from beam to beam to
148
NIUXRIII KOSONSHO
(KHON SUIKHDKN)
(Shozo Kato collection)
LEGEND
A
Minamoto.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
named
soldier
challenge
the
challenge,
HOSHI
ICHIRAI
several
for
his
accepted
result.
JOSAKEI
386.
in the
^^
To
period of the
Tempo
He was wont
dynasty.
Shoku
to
came
Sage
back
the
carrying
and
arrow,
narrated
the
incident
to
his
on the wall,
returned to him.
387.
as a tall
JUROJIN Sp
old man in the
One
A..
dress of a scholar,
makimono,
solemn
hand
either in his
not
mien,
often
so
or
of the
crane.
attached to his
with
playing
He
the sun.
of
circle
staff;
children as
carries a roll,
he
or
generally of
is
Fukurokujiu
(q.v.),
though the latter exchanges attributes with Juro. It is thought that Jurojin
is only a variant of the ever-smiling divinity with the
elongated brain pan,
Fukurokujiu, but
at
an
early
if
date.
Ehon Kojidan,
so
does
Jurojin
(Vol.
//)
not
company
Seven Gods in
Benten.
of
388.
JURO SUKENARI
389.
JUSHA
-$
^,
!ft
or SEMUI,
f&
or
Ruui BOSATSU.
One
of
the
sons
fr
fr
t>
t>
\\\.
See
under
HARE,
page in.
391.
(mythical).
KAFURI UMIN
They
live
t$
jg.
Flying
men.
sea)
See
under
FOREIGNERS
cliff).
LEGEND
KAGEKIYO
392.
[^
jp; ffi
the
in
This episode
shown hanging
often
Akushibioye (miscreant
is
Yashima
to
Shibioye)
his
of
latter,
Yoritomo
in
the Daibutsu
his
his
enemy
though
it
is
said that
the
of
priest
he believed to
legend has
that
it
his
attempt to murder
He
uncle,
whom
name
his
Hatakeyama Shigetada.
triumph of
and Kagekiyo
be a creature of Yoritomo.
the
combat, he
single
He owed
of
Fujiwara
Minamoto MIYO NO
of
spear.
murder
his
in
battle,
called
the shikoro on
of
is
is
-fc
Tadamitsu.
of
YASHIRO KUNITOSHI.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
is
wooden
prison,
thirst.
were partly
In
and
there
embodied
another
is
in
play
the
play,
called
Mekura
(Blind) Kagekiyo.
393.
of
KAGESUYE
YOSHITSUNE
quell
(q.v.),
jjf;
whom
2p.
men
to a
ford
the Uji
River,
YORITOMO.
who knew
recognizable.
of the pennate
This
is
a favourite scene
The mon
(crest)
of
Kagesuye
is
the
and
is
Takanoha formed
feathers)
that
LEGEND
Takatsuna
of
The
incident
consists
of
two groups
four
of
illustration.
often described
is
JAPANESE ART.
Yotsume, and
the
called
is
IN
of
the
battle
of
LJji
GAWA.
KaGESUYE, at the battle
large branch of
mark
for the
plum
of the
Twice he dashed
KAGUHANA
395.
KAI AWASE.
He was
pulled out of
AND MIRUME.
The
shell
The two
Game.
See HELL.
witnesses.
See GAMES.
KAIRISHI.
396.
397.
KAI RYU
398.
KAISHO
Another name
$| f| 3Eof
J|t,
Chinese
KAIKEI.
for RIUGIN.
sage
who
399.
KAJIWARA KAGETOKI
YORITOMO
(q.v.),
Iffe
J&
from
He kept
ever
in appearance.
young
tree,
on Mount
lived
of
easy
394.
Inari
made him an
form a
Ikuta,
tree
of
forest
or poking his
Bosom
jjt $f.
friend
He
of YOSHITSUNE.
bow
into
and adviser
is
generally
the hollow of an
old
pursuers
when he had
in
to llee
from
Ishi
Bashi Yama, in
He was
1181,
tree.
His
the
father
full
of
Kagekiyo.
400.
river
the
time
KAKO
and a
fastness
of
the
rice field)
of
fnj -^f.
who
Emperor U
(Yu)
of
three hundred
the
Ka
(HSIA)
Emperor GYO
of his
relatives.
(YAO), in
In
the
LEGEND
Emperors gave him an
elixir in
JAPANESE ART.
wine.
his
IN
which rose
to the sky
with
it
in
without
it
of his house,
KAKU BAKU.
Chinese
KAKUDAITSU
f$
philosopher,
identical with
depicted
with
demon
Hakuhaku.
^ }, or TENNENSHI.
The Taoist
rishi,
Ho TANG|
pile
when
upon
the tower
He remained
his
was
head
in
finished he ordered
to
them never
when
amuse
to touch
and
theniselves,
it
or
damage
it.
KAKKEI
Placing the abacus on his knees, he divined what was going on wherever he
stayed.
404.
virtue,
KAKKIO
KWOH
M>
i||5
KWAKKIO.
of
who
filial
carries
Kakkio digs a grave for the baby, as, being too poor
old mother and his own family, he would have buried his son
to sustain his
have more
Sometimes Kwannon
405.
is
KAKURE ZATO
ft 4* g|.
The blind
old
man
entrusted with
KAKWOKO
3[
Q.
three others,
in
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
KAU
intended
Tsui,
century,
Crown
the
banish
to
Han
his ends.
They were:
appointed on the recommendation of CHORYO to defeat
See illustrations in
KA-KWO-KO, LOK-LI-SEN-SAI, KI-LI-KI, and TOYEN-KO.
Kokkiva,
Vol.
Relics.
407.
He was but
eye,
1060,
H It HI
IB :S
in
TOURINOUMI YASABURO.
KAMA ITACHI
408.
about and
is
||.
mythical creature
the
sickle,
who
flies
Upon
this
This
sickle."
KAMATARI
409.
KUKWAN
the
but without even drawing the weapon from his eye, he shot dead
his opponent,
with the
was
ifc
J|f|
xl,
$&
itachi ni kirare ta
when sandal
often used
is
& (NAKATOMI
the
is
Kama
is:
founder
of
NO
the
The
J53L).
FUJIWARA
also
called TAISHO-
clan.
He
became
the
of
In a popular play he
his
no
He
Iruka, in 644,
name
daughter
is
made
to attempt the
given
of Iruka,
is
life
as
was
Motome.
his
It
mistress,
is
of the minister,
Soga
retainer of
stated
and she
153
murder
led
later.
him through
the devious
LEGEND
passages of her
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Motome had
But
father's
own
suspicions,
had followed him by means of another thread, which she had deftly attached
to his kimono.
She thus thwarted his efforts at the cost of her own life,
occurrence in
art.
It
is
said
scuffle,
but,
is
illustrations
which are
of
that
Tsung (627-650
A.D.),
is
of frequent
had become
and
that, after
To
Japan.
achieve
this
she
purpose
collected
number
of
very
valuable objects, amongst which was a jewel the fame of which spread over
the three Empires of India, China and Japan.
named Manko,
retainer,
King
who had
Dragon
standing,
tree to
the
who
trunk.
stranger,
Manko,
after
Soon
entrusted.
felt
while,
passionately
drawn
after
the
show her
towards
siren
the
gem
It
of his misfortune,
committed
He met on
he
suicide.
whom
had been
Kamatari
and
woman was
his
was
He stopped
suddenly disappeared.
married.
apprising
Fukuzan
life.
after
who
of a
LEGEND
higher station
several
his
than
years of
past
knowing
bliss,
but
him a
she bore
unworthy
commit
She
son,
his
previous
marry so
far
below
his rank),
and,
life,
custom
she decided
wished,
the precious
from
to
from
refrained
history.
herself
herself,
JAPANESE ART.
IN
gem and
land
the
however, before
return
it
dying,
to Kamatari.
many thousands
for
to
of
ri,
To
this end,
so fast
that
she
swam away
Kamatari and
his
and
finally
noticed a sharp cut in her breast, evidently self-inflicted, from which issued
a dazzling
light.
woman had
It
In
it
was concealed
the precious
gem which
the courageous
was put
as
an attribute
in the
hand
of the statue of
Buddha
in the
Kifukuji temple.
The
episode
is
on a stormy sea, beholding the jewel which has just been rescued
but
more often with the woman holding the jewel and fighting the dragon.
;
410.
KAMI
jji$.
Generic
name
of the
numberless
legions
of
Shinto
which the Kojiki and Nihongi should be conThe soul of every man becomes Kami after death.
sulted.!
girl,
failing
which he
will
destroy the
155
LEGEND
Kami
Several of the
the
is
of the wells.
god
the kitchen
of
KOJIX,
is
SAMA
SUIJIN
JAPANESE ART.
IN
by the
assisted
fire,
of
deities
the cauldron,
KITSU HIKO (Kudo no Kami), and of the saucepan, O Krrsu HIME (Kobe no
Kami), and the god of the rice pots, O KAMA SAMA; while the ponds chief
The
deity is IKE NO NUSHI NO KAMI, the god of trees, KUKUNOCHI NO KAMI.
goddess of grasses
of
JOKWA; the
deity,
Kami
the
are
mouths.
of
her
of
hunger,
of
obstacles,
of trees
divinity of fever
is
AMANOKO.
KARU, depicted
is
fish
Some
is
the
small
pox
starving circle of
of
penuriousness,
they have
black;
(Hoso
(Bimbogami),
poverty
no
Hell,
of
Kami),
colds
(Kaze
Kami),
of
pestilence (Yakubiogami).
Lightning
dragons,
and
was forged by
SARASVATI
is
NO KORE,
ISHI
the
of
goddess
god of the
language, borrowed from the
TAJIKARA
the
is
Kami
ovoshi
character,
which
411.
a sort of ecstatic
is
trance,
perhaps of an auto-hypnotic
is
killed
jji$
Jlf ?f|
JJ
was a woman
It
is
of the time of
generally
agreed
that she killed many, but that these spiders, seven feet long, were robbers
in ordinary
human
had been
love of legend.
412.
KANAME
ISHI 3g
~fi.
see
MlTSUKUNI.
413.
KANAYE KABURI
$& fr
&
156
ty
See SUKUMAMO.
MITO KOMON
EBIRA KAGESUYE
(s
KATO KIYOMASA
KINTARO (If.L.B.)
KAN NO KOSO
KENSU
(r./..)
(O.C.K.)
KANF-KO
(./.)
KAKUDA1TSU (ir.l..K.)
KANSHIN (7K/..S.)
LEGEND
KANEKO
414.
IN
JAPANESE ART.
(KUGUTSUNE).
-f
in
woman,
strong
often depicted
horse by treading on the tether which he dragged on the road (see Hokusai's
arm under
own without
her
she
a
spilling
the
of
drop
liquid,
her
despite
assaulter's wrigglings.
^ ^.
KANJIA
415.
One
of
Ao
nor
raw and
does
When
in
new
the
the Suye-hiro-
Kanjia
of
the
latter's
polished
speech.
asked for one thing he brings another, dancing about with the wrong
implement
KANKO.
417.
KAN NO BUTI
Drum
^ ^.
g|
B.C.
victorious
whilst
after
wars
Wu Ti
Wu
reign
in
of
in a
See COCK.
the palace.
of
87
him
416.
Han
whose
frolicsome,
is
Kanjia
dancing.
in
fifty-four
He
rulers.
died
years.
in
central
Asia,
in
Yunnan,
At
first
Confucian doctrines, he leant later towards Buddhism and the black arts of
the Taoist sect.
Finding
it
temples, he liberated a
number
He
feet
in height erected
in
was
is
of felons
said
to
his
Ti's
was a
beautiful
bronze
figure,
in
Nen
it
in
dew from
Wu
control.
^,
He was
told
once by
of her eyes
was enough
to destroy
LEGEND
a
and
castle,
if
greatly elated
JAPANESE ART.
IN
could
she
Kan no
by
ruin
kingdom.
Although
was
Buti's enthusiasm
chilled
and kingdoms,
of
^^
RIFUJIN
yet
She
A.-
??S
^b
(or Li
;|j
placed
arts,
which
in
his
after
palaces.
Wu
wizard
Ti.
Ti
was
watching the
favourite,
then
duration.
Kan no
visit
SHO Ko
known legendary
it
Rifugin's brother
VII.}.
and
lady,
after causing
fell
into
disgrace
Jin),
to death.
is
that
said
when
down by
return,
at
later,
tears
Han
Wang Mu
(SEIOBO, q.v.)
traditions,
dynasty, the
the usurper.
in
portrait
deeply
her
stars in his
days'
One
loss,
the
of seven
her
at
Kojidan,
(Ehon
Wu
called her
grief
of a
appeared smiling to
the
who
cities
by
his
he
wreck
the monarch,
to
often
illustrated,
(q.v.),
and
are well-
418.
KAN NO KOSO
igj
|R,
or
KAO Tsu;
Founder of the HAN dynasty of China, though from very low birth.
He
was supported by CH'EN PING (Chimpei), CHANG LIANG (Chorio), FANKWAI
(Hankwai), and
rose
from
his
HAN
self-assumed
title
of
Duke
158
of
throne,
LEGEND
which at
JAPANESE ART.
IN
to
See
consort.
his
Lii,
KAKWOKO.
some years
After
of wise
credited
women and
eunuchs,
much
KAN NO Koso
the
Hankwai
The
j|j.
celebrated
shows
two
to
standing in single
or
coolies,
file
warriors,
him
or
HAN
Chinese,
his
amongst
who upbraided
to
him
leads
show
The most
SIN.
between
crawling
number
(q.v.),
is
to death.
his palace
and
is
KANSHIN
419.
to the disgust of
in
licence,
five
like
or
the
to
increase
more
Chinese,
legs
boys
and one
some poor woman took pity upon him. A braggart once challenged
him to creep between his legs, in a public place, and Kanshin consented to
until
this
humiliating
man
of
low birth
rather
performance
but
later,
when he became a
he caused the
caused the
with a large
sum
no Koso, and
later
rendered
to
her
of
money.
by the Empress
late consort, had
He
presented
treason by
of
also
Kan
Lii,
Kanshin amongst the three Heroes of Han, with Ch'eng Ping and Chang
It is sometimes said that
the old woman was a dyer by trade,
Liang.
and that
before
KANSHOSHI $f
420.
usually
it
shown playing
was a pupil
carried
to
of
$H -f
the flute
RIOTOSHIN
(Lu
legs
tree
growing near
the
palace
of
LEGEND
he
Seiobo,
immortality as he
with
filled
grow out
421.
wine
it
He
fell.
the
through
of a
breaking
bough,
is
and
life
magically
of
KANSHUSAI
in
If 5|
was
he
890,
the
in
sent
one
to
MICHIZANE.
of
of
his
and Matsue,
to kill
and
it,
two
sent
The
men,
his
Genzo
retainers,
of his
to
After
Takebe, who, with his wife Tonami, kept a school near Kyoto.
of
entering
downfall
father's
from
dropped
JAPANESE ART.
IN
chief
Gemba
the boy.
mother to save
his
master's
late
came
she
managed
shroud
amiss,
of
from
falling
the
who,
son to the
legend,
which Genzo
tried
to
fell
it
her.
his
fears
trusting
Genzo's
to
loyalty
to
kill
sent
his
save Kanshusai.
tenarj kagami,
been
having
school,
with
in
to
Matsue,
own
to
After he
son.
in
English
some
fifteen
years
ago.
422.
KANZAN
with JITTOKU
scroll.
ll|.
to
whom
(q.v.),
Both lived
in
The Taoist
HANZAN, shown
rishi
he apparently
expounds
to
the
in
company
contents
everyone
else,
of
like
resenting
visitors,
423.
to
KAO
TSU.
See
KAN NO Koso.
1
60
SENNIN WITH
KATSUYU
SI11S11I
KAWA/.U THROW
KARASHISHI
Walter
I..
Rehreui Collection
KAKKIO
LEGEND
KAPPA
424.
the
in
KAWAKO.
or
jjf',
vfij"
JAPANESE ART.
IN
rivers
Child
the
of
of
Island
the
river:
of
Kiushiu.
mythical
has
It
the body of a tortoise, the limbs of a frog, and the head of a monkey, with
but there
its
is
skull,
which
in
in
return as deeply
human
strength.
to
is
very civil
is
and
as
its
though
often;
be very
attack:
in
so
it
the
doing
it
and bow
polite
and
ferocious,
bow
will
its
spills
beings,
life
to
you
fluid
and
Dzite
lies
In
As
sign
and
netsiike,
with scales
a tiger;
like
it
all
over
after
its
they touch
it
back.
It
hides in
it."
bond not
it
the river of
of a horse,
to
it
describes
like a child
"It
gives
the belly-band
to
sometimes
whole
the
creature,
its
beast.
head,
with
lanky straight hair, are met with; some carvers even disdain the traditional
features, and simply depict a child with gnarled limbs and a saucer-shaped
its
head amongst
name Kappa
the
is
often
Buddhist stone
lions,
rough hanging
hair.
It
ni Kittri.
KARASHISHI
425.
J|f $jp
-fv
temples,
like
the
Koma
;:
or simply Siiisin.
Inn.
They
are
characterised
by
their
fierce
expression,
peonies,
or
large eyes
with
the
sacred
*
jewel,
which
often
161
takes
the
shape
of
an
LEGEND
intricately
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Buddha
some-
times with a small ball in the mouth, or leaping a waterfall, or several shishi
They
import.
On
are
and
waterfalls
peonies.
such a lion rides Monju Bosatsu, whilst the same creature crouches at
the
of
vitality
cliff
(shishi
no
certain
to
live
long.
This
Shishi
performers
are
mask movable,
horns,
Tama
new
often
met
of
partaking
often
is
carved
illustrated.
as
name
with
uetsuke,
laughing
face
the
of
appearance
lower jaw of
the
with
an
finished
boy,
Kirin
the
of
Such
of Shishi mai.
detail.
was
it
the
in
the
the
of
it
otoshi).
disclosing
perfection
exquisite
saka
Legend has
their
of
top
with rocks,
associated
usually
one
(q.v.),
even
or
or
two
carrying
the
on
her
on the head.
KARIYOBIXGA
426.
$to
%g
KARU.
The goddess
shoulder and mounted astride a
427.
KARUKAYA DOSHIX
See GARIO.
$ff Ufl.
of
with
fevers,
toad
yellow
fish.
)flj
}j|
g.
It
known
personage,
who was
also
He
Another well-
delusions.
and
took the
mistresses
shape
of
writhing
life
serpents.
under the
is
questions,
and
Koyasan a young
struck with the adolescent's face, he asked him
a story relating
found
that
of
Ishido
the fact
162
was
that
in
looking
the boy
for
was
his
his
father.
own
son,
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
but worldly matters were for ever forgotten by the hermit, and telling the
home he passed on
to return
boy
KARU NO
429.
DAIJIN $g
his
way.
g.
made a mute,
be
be
tortured,
the
the
Demon
to
Candlestick.
the
if
place
to
Emperor
caused him to
painted
his skin,
that
on
to be
who
it
return
to
to
him
(compare Abe no
his request
Nakamaro).
The foundation
HARUHIRA, who,
The
old
man
was buried
in
died,
this
656 (Saimyo,
on
his
legend
2),
way home,
Iwo
in the island of
in
Satsuma, and
in
Haruhira
of
is
filial
virtue
(Shaho Bukuro).
KASENKO
430.
young woman
talking
to
[ft]
clothed
in
phoenix,
or
for
woman
The female
1$.
fll]
mugwort, holding a
is
lotus
carrying in a basket
depicted
her sick
Ho
rishi,
loquat
fruits,
mother.
of the time of
Wu,
of the
To
%$z
moved
1Hj
there
I&
wh
as
swiftly as
learnt
Taoism
in the
fairy
her residence.
may be
come
She
a bird.
left.
NANGAKU
to
him
163
at
after she
had been
blue
whilst journeying to
the Court of
LEGEND
the
Wu
Empress,
ascended
she
How,
occasionally
KASENYO
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Heaven
to
broad
in
in
The wizard
Ho
SIEN
live
bees,
Hokusai's
X.,
431.
take a mouthful of
Mangwa,
j|j.
fti]
rice
Vol.
KASHO
One
$N Iff.
whose body became as brilliant
both the sun and the moon.
433.
first
of
as
%^
FUJIWARA
the
of
grains
See
f$.
HJ
FISH.
EARTHQUAKE
of
disciples
j<
Posthumous
ft-
Nakatomi no Muraji,
clan,
Compare
again.
Buddha (KASYAPPA),
burnished gold after he had swallowed
the
KASUGA DAIMIOJIN
434.
rice
6.
page
KASHIMA DAIMIOJIN $
432.
and
daylight,
Ama
or
title of
the
no Kayane, with
temple in Nara.
KATSUGEN
435.
shown born on
],
The
or KATSIT-SEXKO.
He went
KWOII
Rishi
YUEN,
Go, but their ships were wrecked in a storm, and no one knew what had
KATSUYU
436.
man
looking
KATSUYU
One
sheep.
riding on
lived in
day,
The
&.
the
Rishi
following
HOII
Yiu,
day
walking on the
depicted
wild-
as
a goat.
and
sold carved
images of
voyage to Shokuchu, some people followed him, and those who went with
him to the top of the Mount Tai never came back because he taught them
magic.
KAWAI MATAGORO
437.
Watanabe Kinemon,
friend
of
death,
his
did
not
own
fulfil
M
to
'P*
whom
3l.
|H-
father's
father
was a
precious katana
his
Kawai's
it,
Kawai
his
son,
KAl'I'A
(.l/.t.)
KATO
IN
(./.)
(M.i;.)
KOREA
(M.I;.)
LEGEND
following this
Yukie,
him on
is
JAPANESE ART.
IN
son,
the spot.
few
This
years.
438.
KAWAKO.
439.
brated
wrestler,
See KAPPA.
shown
usually
lifted
by
his
ypj
loin
KAZE NO KAMI.
440.
I nar i
no
He
san.
the
is
Divinity of
cloth
by
his
Cele-
opponent
throw).
Matsue;
also
called
Kamiya san
of
god
^ H M l& ^-
See
YUKI OXXA.
KEHAYA
441.
Kern
(kick)
and Haya
the strongest
as
man
Hpjt
jjg|
(fast),
in
(TALMA
}||
ran
all
xo),
who took
his
name from
of
them by smart
sundry;
strong
therefore,
kicks.
on the advice
of
Nagaochi,
and
was
called
he
so
sent
to
Idzumo
trouble,
of
his
all
and
for
the
442.
KEN EN SHYU
ijtf
|J| JH,
to
poor people
his
travels.
the
'65
the
He
LEGEND
many thousands
distributed
inexhaustible.
sun
the
wed
to
and exiled
reaching
but
Koryo,
his
was
supply
On
daughter SHOKUJO.
his
so
much
Kengiu
to
the
up
or KINGEN.
SfB *%,
to
herself
gave
before
(See 299).
KENGIU
443.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
frivolous
other
the
side
of
while
Shokujo
only meet once a
(Chih Nu).
They may
on
the
year,
7th day of the seventh month, when the milky way
HWAI NAN
is
spanned,
The Chinese
some by maple leaves, called Ushaku Koyo no Hashi).
name of the herdsman is K'IEX Niu, and there are several different versions
to
two
this
legend,
and they
of age,
of
allowed to pollute
spirits
listen
seventh
the
Buddhist
to
with
entrusted
her
gave
as
husband
Another
of
version
has
for
garments
that
it
the
these
human
to
the
of
Emperor
duties,
attention
scant
to
was
the spinner
the heavenly
She
paid
therein,
river.
then
their spirits
daily
month were
seventh
one
lover,
the
which
its
making
the
of
day
chants.
the
of age, after
and only on
and 99 years
lived to 103
cross
more
poems attached
story
is
frequently
to trees,
attributes
indicated
above,
by
the
by
mere
milky
cryptic
One emblematic
theme
of
tsuba
representation of the
decoration
in
illustrated, either
or
in
used
way,
66
The
their usual
spanned
as
Tanabata
by the Umetada:
1
perhaps
(q.v.).
festival
was a
familiar
upon an inkstone
lies
LEGEND
a
leaf,
shuttle
also
are
Japanese Court
the
the
Puevaria
each
Kuzu
(Dioscorea
The
upon
enlarged
the
by
leaves
were
of
the
(see
and
Thunbevgiana)
stone
and
copied
number
reverse
metal.
was
which
ceremonial
Chinese
old
on
in
wrought
JAPANESE ART.
IN
of
seven
and
brushes
the
some
besides
slips,
is
plant
vermicelli
bunch
an equal
inkstones,
Kuzunoha
of
story
paper
two
presented
courtiers
Yam
of
the
with
leaves
balaias).
inkstones,
Yam
carefully washed,
leaves,
and the
stems
of
bamboo,
the
of
generally
and
leaves placed
and
five
which
to
were
colours
mystic
attached
coloured
attributed
to
the
of
paper,
Tanabata
stars;
slips
day came everybody wrote poems with the ink freshly prepared
upon the new stones with the drops of the Ama no gawa.
as the
To
which
the
it
devoted
Way
inspired
charming
(Constable,
olden times,
in
essay,
under
Therein
1905).
the
the
the Alanyoshiu
Professor Lafcadio
late
the
in
title
The
reader will
Romance
find
of
Hearn has
the
Milky
of vigour,
444.
vessel
445.
KEN-RO-JI-JIN.
in
away with
CHANG KIEX.
One
KENGIU
of the Earth
is
KENSHI
'/^
^.
Taoist
Sennin
shown hooking a
fish
whilst
He
LEGEND
IN
hundred
years
three
lived
Man,
He took
constituting
is
also
three
(the philosophy of
of
powers
Heaven, Earth
to angling,
There
the
he wrote forty-
and
JAPANESE ART.
with Taikobo,
easy confusion
who
in her belly.
with a straight
fished
KENSU was a
Keichofu, whose
of
priest
KESA
446.
prawn on
was
Jg
the wife
name
is
than wrong her husband and cause his death, laid her
sword
of
his
written
own
her
her nickname,
name
the
after
her
of
-p.
rather
under the
(q.v.).
mother,
KOROMO GAWA.
of
j!|J|
life
with
identified
of
the
Osho,
Arnold's
Her
romance,
Azuma.
KEZORI KUYEMON
447.
jl
$lj
ffi
ffi.
who
Great pirate
lived
at Akata, in
and
which
of
is
is
the hero of
daring career.
KIBIDAIJIN
448.
ijj
Df ^C
Posthumous
[5.
title
of
SHIMOMICHI NO
secrets of the
He went
to
754 without having achieved his purpose, but with the art of embroidery,
the game of Go, the musical instrument called Biwa, and his syllabary.
in
Whilst
together
to
in
puzzle
the
jumbled
him.
letters
He was
to
numerous
assisted
1
68
such
as
piecing
of a classical
then
trials,
(.!/.<;.)
KIBIDAIJI.N (M.G.)
KENGIU
(A.)
KARASH1SHI (.l/.i'.J
KIO\U (j.)
LEGEND
which went
from
inscription.
inviting
the
him
stakes
to
the
it
the
of
Nakamaro stand by
an
Kibidaijin's
side
rules of
Abe no
the
game
swallowed
wife
His partner's
side.
till
but
wife,
ghost of
hand
His
head.
clever
the
his
guide
own
his
by
helped
and
the
for
anachronism), makes
ended
was
ministers,
commits
store
in
of
sequence
proper
of
secrets
the
in
being
legend (though
JAPANESE ART.
character
to
character
GENTO, one
partner,
IN
this
making the game appear a draw, but on counting the stones it was
found that one was missing, and witli the aid of the magic mirror (Ts'in
The Emperor ordered her
King) it was shown in the woman's body.*
piece,
execution,
her
let
However,
live.
a plot was being hatched to kill Kibidaijin, and he would have been
murdered but for this woman, who showed her gratitude by warning him
He became minister
and helping him to escape.
(KOKEN), and died in 775, at the age of 83.
He
449.
merchant
sit
also
is
KIBI NO MABI.
called
^&
KICHIBEI
of
There
ftf.
was
of
cooking
But the
fish.
450.
KICHIZA.
451.
KIDOMARU
tried
companions
to
of
kill
is
interesting to
and the
who
It
rotisseur,
latter,
Kichibei,
to
miserly
go and
eating
his
of his eels,
compare
this tale
See OSHICHI.
Jfe.
jjr ^L.
One
of the
Raiko.
but
rich
money used
to save
his
once
full
Empress SHOTOKU
of the
done
to
death
by
the
* In Ehon
Kojidan a picture is given of the Magic Mirror ot the Tan dynasty,
inside of a man's body.
the
behold
The drawing shows the heart, lungs, and part of the
the mirror.
169
abdomen
to
reflected in
LEGEND
KIGA
JAPANESE ART.
IN
him
before
alighted
above
from
CHOKITSU.
railed
also
2f: 1p|,
with
Chinese
book, and
said,
"Our Emperor
has
you!''
which wetted
tears,
KIICHI
453.
and
the
his
collar,
HOGEN
inventor of the
was a
p6))
at the temple
Tora-no-maki,
from
father
son
to
It
is
Kurama, ardently
strategist,
arts of war,
in
Kiichi
the
Legend has it, and a play has been written on this story, that
Yoshitsune went on foot to try and reach Kiichi's house, but was set upon
by some evil-minded people and rescued by Kiichi himself, who took him
family.
of
fallen
daughter,
in
Minazuru
Kiichi
love.
...
is
Hime,
whom
with
often seen
in
prints,
the
on the request
times
who
hears
no
covering
evil,
KIKU
455.
the
KIKAZARU
454.
Imperial
its
ears
~$$.
badge.
#*
One
Ht
with
its
of
is
hands.
The chrysanthemum.
It
the
thought
that
The
Hideyoshi
used
and
is
called
this
crest
of
crest.
Kusunoki,
Ktkusui.
KIKUCHI JAKWA
before the
temple
Kushida; his horse shied without apparent reason, and Kikuchi, who was
a
170
at
the
temple.
dragon
LEGEND
feet
thirty
was
long
temple, a
terrific
killed
his
by
ART.
JAPANESE
arrow,
and
fell
KIKUJIDO
457.
IN
%H
^J
also
(see
JIDO).
Some
foot.
exile
of
him a
Keuh
rival reported
Buddha
sentence of
(sic,
in
940
the
to
Muh Wang,
but
Tsze,
the fact
before
B.C.
!),
sending
is
Kikujido
words, and
458.
is
usually
shown painting on
KIKWAHAKU
where
Shyunan,
the
many
ftl]
fO *H (with
disciples
dwarf)
lived
in
the
Mounts
one of his disciples to have dinner ready for a stranger who would arrive
on a subsequent day, and forbade him to observe them through cracks in
the walls. The stranger came; he was five feet high, of which the head
he was three
occupied half;
and stroked
had a
his
459.
Wang
Ti,
This
who
but
successor of
his
KILILI
grey heads,"
beard,
and when
sceptre,
He was
ears.
long
$jjf
J| *p
feet
opened
his
KA-Kwo
great
laughter.
mouth seemed
(see also
Ko).
One
to
He
reach his
See FUKUROKUJIU.
of the four "recluse
Kan no
Koso.
51
article
Saltarel's colleceion.
31^ !U 7
_K TO SHOTEI and
171
LEGEND
460.
KILIN.
The Chinese
461.
KIMOX
See KIRIN.
unicorn.
DEMON GATE.
or
f"j,
JAPANESE ART.
IN
the north side, and through which the spirits of evil are supposed to pass.
A
its
Shinto shrine
is
Chinese prototype:
from coming
spirits
KINKO
462.
custom with
this
of
in.
Sennin shown on a
(KINKAO).
i^5
fishes.
Compare
cap,
in the
is
or even several
fish,
mounted
astride a large
winged carp
(Koi);
and who
strolled
He
KENHYO.
of
his
the
lead
in
Clio,
King
life
of
(two centuries)
the fishes
and then
return.
came
he would
After
be skilled on the
to
lute,
for
fishes.
painting
him and
to
world
river
said
Takugun
water
of
long span of
bathed,
to
about
recluse
said
One day
would
like
agreed,
and
that he
a short period;
he
as he
on the back of a carp, the event being witnessed by more than 10,000
people and by his disciples, who had awaited him on the banks, spending
the time in purifications.
fishes,
After
kill
any
463.
KINRYO
reflection of
f|.
ance of motion.
464.
SHUME
forest,
KINTARO
J|,
&
-fc
J$-
GORO 3t
IB,
No KINTOKI
&
also
1$.
named SAKATA
The
child
of
the
was
lost in the
nurse, the
mountains by
YAMA
UBA,
it
that
his mother,
who adopted
LEGEND
all
is
two.
kites he
on children's
One
of
is
which he made a
bridge
over
is
mountain
the stag,
the bear,
torrent
foaming
and
hare,
the
it.
feats
generally
in the
the
deer,
His weapon
celebrated
his
the
are
is
represented
frequently
of
for
huge
himself,
tree,
with
his
three
followers,
storm
]|f ^L.
adopted.
with
JAPANESE ART.
IN
on
way home.
their
need of a squire, he noticed a curious cloud over a mountain, and sent his
was brought
him share his
to
Raiko,
who
in the
etc.,
which appear
eleventh century.
to
let
have
See RAIKO;
see
some
strong child,
cases the
Momotaro
(q.v.),
the
little
is
peachling.
Maeri.
KIOSHI
465.
who with
his wife,
g^f.
CHOSHI (CHANG
SE),
of filial virtue,
KIANG SHE,
The
lady was rather fond of the water of a certain lake and also of raw
and
for
strength
for
to
their
every day
466.
do
fish,
many
the water
old
so.
piety
One day
caused
KIOSHIGA
the
Gods took
spring
to
^ ^ 3f,
or
TAIKOBO
(%
!g).
The Chinese
sage,
LEGEND
KIANG TSZE YA,
lived
He
busy.
also called
Xllth
the
in
JAPANESE ART.
IN
century,
is
'
PEH,
by a wizard, as he
told
set
river,
fishing
He met
and understood from him that he was awaiting to catch a big fish,
that many fishes had already fastened themselves to his implement, though
bait,
him.
scientific
after
twenty years at court the sage returned loaded with honours to his native
On his way home he met two outcasts, who prostrated themprovince.
On inquiry he found
him and begged for his forgiveness.
that they were his wife and her husband, as the woman, after deserting
him whilst he was fishing, had married a scavenger and fallen to the
before
selves
He
deepest depravation.
the ground, said:
this
later
at
no more possible
is
for
after such
in
"It
spilt
Then he departed on
broken cup."
his
on
it
to
wife to be reunited
this
road to be replaced
1120.
in
man and
and throwing
The
CHU
of
story varies
him
gave
his
expectation,
He
a
somewhat
jar,
SAJI,
is
name
is
more
also
of
Tai
Rung Mang
but
lie
shown with a
often
fishing
BuN-5
meaning grandfather's
(Taikobo),
of Sei.
fan,
with
straight
pin.
Compare KEISHI
KENSHI.
467.
KIOYU
adviser of the
f\
fjj,
or KIYOYU.
Emperor YAO
in
the semi-mythological
174
sage,
Hi) YEO,
LEGEND
When
B.C.
2360
his
wash
by listening
JAPANESE ART.
IN
his ears
His
such a temptation.
to
and washed
better,
and eyes
his ears
of
taint
water.
the
he rushed to
waterfall,
of
one
compelled to go
felt
the
it
palm
up
when he broke
to
shell
is
often illustrated.
is
it,
as
even that rude music reminded him of the outside world (Shaho Bukuro).
KIRI
468.
and racemes
own
the
crest
upright racemes.
KIRIN
469.
body
its
is
that of
of
two outers
tail
its
is
to
endow
it
produce
with
appealed to in
difficult
nor
mother
of Confucius
The Kirin
is
and
fairly
but
scales,
and
filial
high,
it
is
is
lion.
K'ILIN,
combining
name.
Its
as
lucky omen.
It
in fact,
it
This mythical
Some
colours.
so
head
The Li Ki book
of five
living,
its
It
yellow.
and
on the
respectively
anything
by the
rulers
colour
feet
hurting
cases
an ox or a
its
Chinese
a paragon of virtue,
no sound,
like
fleshy;
from the
monster
differs
K'l,
is
"mon"
a horse or a dragon,
representations
five;
$$t $$JL
male animal,
the
like
It
or KIRIMON.
of flowers
Emperor's
$,
^jjjj
so
lightly
as
it
was
living alone,
and
just
that
appeared to the
to Confucius himself.
often
met with
175
in
Japanese
art.
In
its
squatting
LEGEND
position
has served as a model for netsuke, with the horn resting on the
the body shown with scales, or with protuberances, perhaps
it
and
back
intended
to
make
with flames.
It
it
appear
horse,
Picard,
the forehead,
This tradition
Xlllth century,
of the
who
the lost
human
a creature with a
says that
Inn)
piebald
is
Maha
like
Its
describes a race of
of
JAPANESE ART.
IN
face
feet
One wet day the creature slipped and broke a water jar;
commanded the Gods to stop all rain for ever, and the land
from the drought.
to lose its
and succeeded
in
and
fell.
who succumbed
her
to
charms,
also
is
upon which
The
fall
said
is
of
In
chastity.
Brown
suffered greatly
his
kingdom
to
rain
the
tempting
creature,
(q.v.),
No
Muller.
in
in the classical
fact,
German by
is
emblematic
the
in
it
anger
This
the
of
Ikkaku Sennin
which
its
based a
of
of the unicorn,
to
the
in
is
an emblem
of
the moon.
Several varieties
met
are
with
from
few
Mr.
Kilins
Chinese
in
of
sources,
Deshayes'
art,
it
may
lecture,
and
as
the
Japanese
artists
have
freely
at
the Musee
Guimet
in
April,
1902.
The
horse),
HIAI-CHI
is
found on
176
It
its
is
is
hornless;
back.
figured
Kakutan
KUDAN (TAKUJIU)
SUISEI
(/;'./..)
HAKUTAKU
KIRIN STANDING
(1I'.I..K.)
Sui
CONFUCIUS ON KIRIN
WJ..K.
sei
(IY.L.B.)
Si- niit
HAKUTAKU
(^.)
(sl.B.)
SINIU
(u'.I-.K.)
KIRIN
(li:/..B.)
LEGEND
IN
and locks
ART.
JAPANESE
tail,
of a Shishi.
The KIOTOAN
is
(Japanese, Kaktitan)
It
more akin
is
p.
describes
it
Pin
two
horns, bushy
its
TSIEH
has an elongated
(Hakutakii)
tail,
and appeared
talk,
to
Taisei,
devours
it
that
all
Ti.
Huang
the
in
goat)
It
is
also
Kumozui,
evil.
is
described by
is
its
pictures
single horn.
Shishi
called
The PIH
and a
body.
Kien,
although Morrisson
chapter 38,
34.
Ku
The
mi horned
Liu, or Liu
The POH,
devour tigers
the
HOANSU
is
a unicorn
The SZE
Suisai)
horns,
and
is
is
the
sometimes
Gould gives
470.
giraffe
the
goat
the
single horn
:
it
is
it
the Si NIU
embellished
Soga brothers
to
is
by
it
some
father's
If.
murderer,
long necked,
is
surrounded
The CHUI
has often
artists
to be a deer pure
)\\
and
horned leopard
"living in rivers";
# $&
kill
same shape.
KISEGAWA KAMEGIKU
to
strength
in the
Monsters.
KUTIAO,
;
head
tiger's
rhinoceros
three
the
affects practically
cow with
the Si appears to be a
(Japanese,
in Gould's Mythical
way
is
The TOUNGTOUNG
with flames.
with a
illustrated
is
ass,
si
two
with
and simple.
Ming tombs.
led the
Kudo Saemom.
See
SOGA.
471.
or SRI
red
KISHIDJO
DEVI).
She
TENNO
is
jjj
5t (probably an adaptation
of
LAKSHMI
holding in her
177
left
LEGEND
Pantheon the
She
one of the
is
a son
take
also called
is
titles
the
the Japanese
in
the
of
of
Fukurokujiu
Kudoku Niyo, or Tai Kudoku
Mahesvara
of
Takchaka (King
of
is
works
some
in
ART.
JAPANESE
BISHAMON.
of
sister
KISHIJOTEN
Devi
She
gems about.
scattering
IN
place
and
Naga)
Haritei
of
Sri
ten.
to be
by the Sogenjigo
said
(Siva),
amongst
tzu
(Kwei
mu,
or Kishimojin).
KISHIMOJIN
472.
DAITJA MATRI
woman
comely
Sanskrit, HARITI or
Jl,
holding a naked
baby on
or
her
a lotus
left
is
as
represented
arm,
the
blossom, the
hand
right
first
"
fruit
of
to
pomegranates
young human
thousand
the
to
being
and
of
youngest
was condemned
to
which,
the
Demons.
re-born
in
birth
give
reputed
similar
to
gave
that
of
woman, mother of a
BINGARA, was converted by
was a cannibal
KISHIMOJIN
flesh.
children,
flavour
their
eat,
Buddha,
is
to
five
hundred
children
in
the shape of a
five
hundred
devils,
of
which she was to eat one a day, because she had once sworn to devour all
She was converted during
the children living in the town of Rajagriha.
her
second
prayed
to
for
Japan she
In
existence.
but
offsprings,
she
is
is
the deity of
also
in particular.
honoured
She
is
women
as
in
childbirth,
protector
of
the
473.
KITSUNE &.
474.
KITZUKI
JJ?f
See Fox.
feet
long, found
ffS.
LEGEND
was a god
p.
in the
IN
JAPANESE
ART.
form of a dragon.
1,
193-5.
KIYOHIME
475.
:Jff
of the
at
of
an innkeeper at Masago,
monastery of DOJOJI
^p,
Kumano.
of
}|
monk's
the
till
refusals
changed
this
getting more
life,
into
passion
girl's
to no avail.
from
but
not
him
the
visit
importune
when
ten feet
bell,
of
the
him from
evil,
incensed
bell,
lashed
herself
into
fury,
face
like the
grew
scales,
her
herself
around the
legs
and
joined
bell,
it
striking
into
grew
tail,
got red hot and finally melted, Kiyohime falling in the molten mass, from
which
was
whilst
the horrified
the
debris
body
heard
only
of the
in
whisper
the
last
Namu Amida
monk.
have changed
herself
of
of
the scene.
Anchin,
From
Of Kiyohime
into a
Biitsu
there
was no
trace.
She
is
also said to
rise
to the
No
LEGEND
As a
on the
itself,
but
often
in
Hannya on
different
The Kiyohime
shapes.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
dance
in
KIYOKU
This
stream.
banks
is
SUI
curious
NO EN
in the
shape of
tentacles, or as
leaf.
g] ?K
>
a Chinese recreation
of a
netsuke
side
the other.
is
in
an octopus, dressed
one,
No
of the
bell
for
The
literati,
make poems.
who
From
could
take
not
curious
the exception of
took
until
any cup
proceeding
place
in
KIYOMASA
iff
JH (KATO #n
the
rule
of
impetuosity
he
Hideyoshi
as
earn
to
One
the
the
himself
the
He became one
This
gardens of the
directed
for
j&).
naturally.
See GAMES.
feet
Korean
surname
war
of
(1592-8)
Under
with
such
warrior (KJsho
devil
HIGO;
but
the
credited with
shogun
had
no
encompassed
having
the
death
of
captains,
Kiyomasa,
in
and he
1614,
is
by
causing one of his retainers to poison him at a tea ceremony least he might
join
hands with
Kato Kiyomasa
his
in
rival,
There
Hideyori.
Kato Kiyomasa
is
said
to
is
the
Nichiren
sect,
equestrian statue of
Museum.
of
fine
80
Namu
feet
high.
He
memory.
K1VO.MORI
KOAN
KOKO
(a.^/.)
KIYOMOKI
(x.M.)
(O.C.K.)
SOTOBA KOMACHI
DOJOJI
(H.S.T
(j.)
KUMASAKA
(../.)
KUDAN
(A'..l/)
KOAX
(II'./.K.)
KUDAN
(ir.L.S.)
(./.)
(M.K.)
LEGEND
His
crest
(man)
a large
is
JAPANESE ART.
IN
circle
recognisable.
its
478.
in
and danced
to him,
and down
Kami,
GOZEN,
a
^)
(TAIRA
:jpf
the
all-powerful
to
whose
at
exile,
three
monastery,
Shirakawa
his
in
the
May.
Shirakawa
of
IGA,
Tenno,
He fought and
court.
of
fifth
He became governor
TADAMORI.
YORITOMO
sent
in
Jfc
JjL Jjg
supported
became
to
this
of
to Taira
skill
KIYOMORI
479.
their sleeves.
From
the son
master.
its
the
defeated
victorious
Minamoto,
sons,
Imawaka,
clemency
being
and
Otowaka,
he
sent
stepmother,
Ike-
Ushiwaka,
his
by
requested
TOKIWA
no-Zenni.
Elevated
to
the
dignity
of
Dajo
Daijin
in
1167,
relatives,
he distributed the
real
last
set
The imperious
top of the roof, and with his fan kept beckoning back the
the
To
He
name
then
him
in
is
181
To go more easily
be made in Kure, but
life.
a canal to
LEGEND
neither
bath with the iced water from Mount Hiyeizan, or fanning his
his
filling
devotions
his
JAPANESE ART.
IN
half-naked body, could allay the tortures which the fever inflicted on his
wasted
frame.
same
the
During
decided
One
horsemen
of
the
receiving no
less
Mount
general
KIYOTADA, and
returned
to
his
monastery after
burnt.
retreat
palace of Fukuhara,
beset
saw
the
to
exile,
died
in
Vol.
1180,
YORITOMO, should
be
like
V.,
his
laid
was destroyed
family
KIYOMORI, the
Nn
1181,
Kiyomori was
Once he
and
last
upon
also
it
Hokusai's print).
grave.
revenge in 1185,
the battle of
at
in
Taira
Settsu,
After
skulls,
in
of the Genji
by numberless
KIYOMORI
revolt.
became
Hiyeizan
skill as
monks defended
of the
of
reduce
to
Yamabushis
Kiyomori
the
year
Dan no
when
Ura, the
the whole
widow
of
into
the
hands
of
and
Yoshitsune.
KIYOMORI
is
usually
shown
monk.
lips
civiles
in the robes
du Japan, gives a
fine
him during
his illness.
ABE NO NAKAMARO
(By courtesy of Messrs. Yauinnaka)
LEGEND
KIYOTAKA
480.
fjf
jlrj.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
presumptuous courtier of
Go DAIGO TENNO,
who, knowing the Emperor's secret opposition to the advice given him in
1336 by Kusunoki Masashige to abandon Kyoto for the Hiyei/an, strongly
Masashige accused him and the "curtain
opposed Kusunoki's proposal.
"
government
worst
the
of being
Go Daigo and
His
seppuku.
a lantern
him
filled
of his
ghost
with
went
fireflies,
481.
KIZABURO.
482.
KO-AN
was
ten
The Chinese
or ROKO, of Hokusai's
thousand years
p.
KO AWASE
ff
484.
KOBITO
A..
They
485.
seven
is
the
attributed
rarely
is
identical with
his
say:
His
appearance.
wore any
clothes.
"KoAN
body
He used
to
Vol.
3,
priest,
KUKAI
the invention
of
He went
to
sect
who
call
the
in
Mangwa,
them Koropokguru.
conferred
(774-834), wizard
in
921
and
by DAIGO
caligraphist,
syllables
in 774,
China
Hokusai's
in
Title
&- ^C 8P-
in
Pigmies figured
Yezo
Buddhist
He
tortoise.
KOBODAISHI j&
TENNO upon
whom
/J^
childish
and he
hair,
tortoise
lived in
IGA-NO-TSUBONE, carrying
HWAN
rishi,
Mangwa.
but
old,
483.
67.
to
red
upon a sacred
the
Lu NGAO
on
See KICHIBEI.
T.
j|;
curses
to
heaping
gardens,
its
when
into
he became a
804,
monk when
and various
temples.
only
to preach
Many
stories
the
he
of
dot,
but,
throwing
183
up
his
brush, he
finished
the
LEGEND
IN
JAPANESE ART.
painted with
five brushes,
On
another occasion he
Go
Osho
hitsu
discussion
(the
priest
the
five
in
Once,
brushes).
in
806,
with the Emperor Saga, he propounded the theory that one can
Buddhahood while
attain
with
the flesh,
in
him, he at once gave him visual proof thereof by transforming himself into
Maha Vairocana.
He once made the
the
eight places in Shikoku, or Hachi ju hakka sho Mairi, wearing straw sandals
and
(warajt),
who undertake
Kukai
is
also
credited
He
single
night,
is
ability,
Soga
An image
Jizo Bosatsu.
lengthy journey
of Kobodaishi.
with a sculptor's
memory
this
same
it
the hard
in
tomb
rock
of the
huge
and thrown into the sea with a prayer that it might be cast on some shore
the inhabitants of which were in need of Buddhist teachings, was found in
the twelfth century by a pious Buddhist of Kawasaki, and enshrined in the
Yaku
Kobodaishi
the pool of
characters,
considered
number
also said
Kammanga
HAMMAN.
highly
to
fuchi,
His
valuable
specimens
relics,
and,
of
caligraphy
like
the
and
relics
of
drawing
Western
were
saints,
so
author.
to
is
Japan.
486.
KOBU.
487.
KODAMA KURA NO
seamen
of
Mori.
See Moso.
JO fa
3s.
ft
jfc
&
184
was a
leader
of the
Nobunaga, he camped
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
on the beach of Takasago, and ordered his men to cut down a certain
They
resisted,
to
smoke
then
This esprit
desisted.
with
dealing
the
One
faith.
but at the
but
soldier,
day,
Kodama
when
irreverent
lake of
the
in
He
AWA, when
to
it
a hurried prayer;
the hurricane
first
returning from
whirlpools,
Buddhist
order,
was a good
fort
his
obey
tree.
whole
Pantheon
Buddhist
the
of
Before
appeared to him.
in
level
ground,
places
medicine
whence he soared
It
named
written
is
and
on
stand
like
fearlessly,
On
jf| =lp.
worthies.
dangerous
mysterious
fifth
KODOKWA
488.
and
rocks
steep
Later
Kodokwa
as
if
used
life
he
climbed upon
the
top
of
This verily
is
to
he were on
his
in the
him
in
lunatic.
Tan,
of
"
got
a pine,
took place
in
the
KOGEN
Koko.
490.
of the
KOGO NO TSUBONE
/h
JBJ.
century),
palace.
poet
NAKAKIMI,
could
sent
also
celebrated
Kyoto,
find
her.
where he
He
her
a musician,
who had
from the
courtier,
the
boasted that he
located
heard
as
fly
the favourite in
playing
the
Koto
the
in
village of Saga,
closed
house.
near
See
LEGEND
KOHAKU
491.
and
of the
official
The Chinese
J|L.
fifth
band
of
paragon,
whose claim to
century,
once
JAPANESE ART.
IN
KOHAKU SENNIN
A, was wont
ftlj
to
KOJIMA TAKANORI
492.
title
is
Jf
jt$
Noble
ffj.
BINGO NO SABURO
tree,
("Off
Mount
visit
He
of
the
^ 3l
J}|$).
at
cherry
exiled
an inn where
tree,
originally
discredit
it
wrote
in
mentioned
altogether.
and
discovered,
(circa
is
as
ni
lives."
to rescue him,
Kojima attempted
Go Daigo was
but in
was
He
and stopped
off
fourteenth
vain.
PEH.
"O
usually
HWANG
is
is
Bui,
had
to
in
He
Taiheki
the
entered
take
refuge
and
only,
into
in
the
modern
against
plot
This story
fealty.
Shinano,
historians
TAKAUJI,
where
was
he
died
legs.
See
1350).
493.
KOJIN
494.
KOKEI
!$
5nL
Shinto
God
)y.
Mythical
Hfc.
Sennin
of
the Kitchen.
FOREIGNERS.
pot.
49j.
KOKEN
496.
KOKO
j|f
Wizard and
Q.
leach,
much
to
is
who, according
and who
to
Hu
legend,
lived
in
man
in the
China about
86
who
KOJIMA
KicHijori;x
(.!/.(;.)
KOJIMA
(7..v.
KOMEI
(..;.)
KOKEMOCHI
(j/.t;.)
LEGEND
whereabouts
his
sunset.
after
He became
size.
KOKO
]H;
^,
left
own body
*J4
@(]
BUNKIO.
or
Son of a Chinese
century.
shrunk to a suitable
filial
KOKUSENYA
498.
it,
motherless
in
discovered
the disciple of
JAPANESE ART.
IN
in
Famous
stfT
seventeenth
the
of
pirate
in
forth
it
away.
man
leading
away a
Kassen
humorous
tiger or
KOMACHI
499.
One
writers.
of
is
when
In 866,
the rain
of
the
as to
NO KAMI
her of having
own
known
DEWA
the land
her
beautiful,
is
Manny o
rival,
poem which
Shiu a
she recited
as
in
fresh
it.
Komachi
called
for
it
in
the old
book thinking
187
to
herself,
LEGEND
his
This
rival.
is
JAPANESE ART.
IN
a scene of Komachi's
No
which
often
depicted,
and
reads:
ni
wo
Nani
is
The poem
Makanaku
tanetote
Ukikusa no
(<
life
*>4f
Oi shigeruran.
"
never been sown, from which seed did you grow Ukikusa
She
how
is
and writing
verses,
artists
when
life,
furrowed with
lines
hair short,
roadside.
depicting her squatting with her large dilapidated hat and a stick, vie with
Hana no
;r
v;
utsun
*>
T
>
iro
if
Old
own poem
wa
ni
kenna,
Itazura ni
*>>
Wagami yo ni furu
Naga me seshimani.
,A
"
The
me
my knowing
it,
indoors."
The
various presentments of
set
into
a numerical
Ama
88
LEGEND
Omu
IN
JAPANESE ART.
from the courtier Yukiuye a poem sent her by the Emperor Yosei, and she
sent
it
altered.
is
(wooden post set at the head of a grave, with the name of the dead written
This last phase of
on it, pending the erection of a suitable monument).
her existence, when old, is said by some (amongst whom M. Bertin) to have
been a
self-inflicted
her lover, Fukakusa no Shosho, caused his death, and, seized with remorse
she
became a mendicant.
Komachi's remains are said to be buried
daughter
the Genji
KOMAN
of
the
leader,
']
peasant
was,
to
according
Heike, but
her
was
Koman was
jump
in
the
swam
to
them
lake,
to
widowed
the
wife,
whom
Aoi
to
NO
try
and
get
the
She
to
left
his
only resource
romance,
Fudarakuji temple, at
many
Ji?J
in the
across
the
but found too late that they were owned by Munemori, the son of
cut,
and
it
silk ensign,
to
be
lady, Aoi
Kiyomori had heard of the escape of the lady, and sent two men,
Kaneuji Seno and Sanemori Saito, to inquire into the sex of the child at
the very
moment
of his birth
if
if
girl,
she
would escape with her life. Saito had been a Genji man, and his learning
and ingenuity, coupled with the unexpected interference of Tarokichi, saved
18.9
LEGEND
the
The boy entered the room with the arm of his mother
a cloth, and handed it to Saito, saying: "This has just been
heir.
Genji
in
wrapped
"It
and
from
King of Chu
presumably because she was wont to use a
iron,
down
metal to keep
mass
that
and succeeded
in
avenge
Kiso YOSHINAKA
LIANG
his
of
j^f
^,
Jj|J
wisdom
winter
become
(q.v.).
KOMEI
501.
find
When
in
word
fear
for
difficulty
He was
as
of
and he waited
reading,
Even
him.
disturbing
Yunnan
the
to
subdue
to
engage
battle
in
the
He was
so
of
Cnu-Ko
famous
for
till
rebel
then
offer.
tribes
without saying
six hours
thus saved
councillor.
his
woman
that the
to
The
Pf.
JL
his clan
of
unknown
Strange and
Seno.
away
taking
summer;
the sword
iron
of
accused
is
that
of
who
to
JAPANESE ART.
IN
of
He became, however,
He went as
his son.
the
south,
who
old,
and
sent
later
steadily
him the
headdress of a court lady with the intimation that such a headgear befitted
Komei
is
usually
Amongst other
of
forty-nine
human
stories
it
victims
is
to
of
Han.
the sacrifices
190
river
Lu
made
Shui, in
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
of
mechanically
propelled
battle,
empty
figures.
city
when
is
the
figures,
He
in
and
left
open,
man sweeping
the walls
outside
Wu
and Wei he used magic to alter the wind on the twenty-first day of the
eleventh month from N.W. to S.E., which suited his plans better, and since
then the wind
is
In A.D.
to
magic
to
and
try
delay his impending death by lighting forty-nine candles to burn for seven
days on a heap of
of the
fell,
enemy, and
and
in his eagerness to
the
at
died,
rice.
age of
fifty-three.
his
corpse on
sleeves
and
for ever,
unchanged
to
sew
mouth
expiring
so that his
two
in his sleeves
the battlefield.
Before
ordered
lie
live pigeons,
afraid
that
when
then to lay
saw
they
his
flew,
favourable position.
He had no
confidence in
KOMPIRA
502.
feet
tortoise.
jfc
HL The
long,
by the
and having
crocodile,
It
is
for
attribute
in
Kanayama
Hiko.
the Japanese
in
India
Pantheon the
Kompira
is
also the
pilgrimages, to which as
name
many
of
as nine
This stratagem
is
its
every year.
9
by
191
(q.v.j.
LEGEND
Kompira, reduced
in
IN
JAPANESE ART.
Oka
Eon, of
Seibei
KONGARA
503.
the play,
DOJI
& $H $1 H ^
One
Kompira
Literature).
god of the cascades, FUDO Mio O (q.v.), shown as a weird male individual
His companion is SEITAKA DOJI.
with an iron club.
^^
KONOHA TENGU
504.
KONSAI
505.
priest,
^ $,
One
or SHOJO.
shown with
KOREIDJIN
506.
attendant
is
Sennin,
Ku
LING
JIN,
whose
KOREMOCHI
507.
The Taoist
ft \.
^P $f
j3|
drunken slumber by a
and saw above him a huge oni coming to devour him, but
became intoxicated.
strange noise,
he killed
it
The No play
of
his
is
KOREMORI
508.
battle
the
of
Fujikawa
by a thousand
overhead
knowledge
$| $& (TAIRA
.
NO)
and
ducks
and
geese,
in
his
fright
at the
made
forgot
his
of strategy.
509.
KOSEI
510.
KOSEISHI
fre-
J|f
O ne
$
Emperor KEN-EN
him nineteen years
~7*
tne sons
was a
sa S e
Benten.
ld
man
See HIKKEN.
living in the time of
The Emperor Ko
the divine
in
heard of
192
and went
to
KOREIJIN
KONGARA
(A.)
KOHAKU
DOJI
(jlf.ct.)
KOSEKIKO
(y.N.C.)
(n.tf)
KVVANNON
(/I/.GV.
LEGEND
consult him.
man had
old
in
when he found
the
that
him, bowing low and repeatedly, and asked his advice upon
of
front
He
JAPANESE ART.
IN
^ ft
KOSEKIKO
511.
The
roll
treated
shown
by
KOSE
]=?
wading
Family name
*.
^j
of
who
[5j,
in the
his
hand, whilst
to the old
it
artists in
512.
in
even jocularly
is
water (modern!!).
of celebrated
series
man,
painters.
which
said to have painted a horse for the temple of Ninnaji, near Kyoto,
left
its
KANAOKA
is
its
monks
to the picture.
shown under a
sometimes
fields,
is
tree,
kakemono.
throwing away
his
KOSE xo
brush in
despair of doing justice to the landscape before him, on the slope of Fuji-
near
shiro-saka,
in
Yuasa,
not
have
painted
His
it.
This
Kishiu.
is
fourth
so
has
beautiful
descendant,
passed
that even
He
died as he
last
proverbial
Kanaoka could
into
stroke
to
his
of
the
Buddhist
signature on
the
kakemono.
513.
KOSENSEI.
514.
KOSH1 JL
called
Kiu,
in
K'UNG FU-TSZE,
his lifetime.
See
~P>
Europe
of
the
or
GAMA
SEXNIN.
MoNSEX-O.
CONFUCIUS,
fourth
philosopher,
K'UNG
title,
See CONFUCIUS.
A
the
The Chinese
LEGEND
ROSHI (Lao
in
tsze)
meaning that
conveying the
faces
JAPANESE ART.
IN
jar,
same
the
doctrine can
be
appreciated
various ways.
Some
works
his
of
become
have
in
popular
highly
where
Japan,
u'a
Kongo (Lun-yu)
Daigakit (Ta-hio).
and Ehon Kokio (Hiao King) both illustrated by Hokusai deals with
piety and loyalty of retainers respectively.
KOSHI
5I4A.
jj^
of
KOSHI-DOSHI
515.
He
shape of a chanticleer.
than
bull
fob
used to keep
the
of
KOSHIX Hi
He
the
Three
represented
Mystic
with
God
is
forehead,
of
(|f|
APES
(q.v.),
At
dolls
in a
God
^).
to
He
arms
holding
eyes
respectively
his feet
is
whom
to
his
vertically
in
194
in
memento
100), describes
p.
in
which the
around
demon Amangako
his
wrists
and
(Utatesa, sadness);
sacred
sometimes
is
shrines
(/.,
is
his attendants
KOSHIN*
Saru.
be
small box.
are offered
opening
to
the
had a monkey no
a silk string and was
of the roads, to
Sambiki
as
in
also
the crumbs.
so
pillow
shown with
six
many arms;
of departed folks.
an old statue
is
|2
He
was attached
away
his
to
hand.
his
in
had a shuttlecock
in
it
bird.
which he kept
516.
magic
which
frog,
Sennin,
it,
all
filial
tiara,
in
the
LEGEND
The name Koshin
JAPANESE ART.
IN
"
when
festivities
offerings are
the
God
applied to the
is
the
in
set
KOSHIN.
KOSHOHEI
518.
who
monkeys or
of
|fl
lived
in
shown
To,
One
^p.
of
the
riding
sea.
of
517.
HWAXG
day
the
of
ifc
^, who
lived
in
the
Kwenlun mountains
at
the
Shennung (SniNxo),
the Genii
C.R.M.).
Fairy
(Mayers'
KOSHOHEI, when
mountains,
and,
meditation.
found
having
His
Shoki,
brother,
Kin H\va
grotto,
was a
stayed
priest,
there
for
forty
and he vowed
to
years
find
missing shepherd.
named
He
told
in
the
of
recognised
his brother, but expressed his astonishment at the absence of sheep or goats.
staff
in the
shape
of goats.
This
alone,
story
is
frequently
illustrated,
but
Koshohei
is
usually
shown
519.
KOTAIRO
Jl
^^
spirit,"
of the
KOTEIKEN
^ |i
or
195
LEGEND
he
although
attained
JAPANESE ART.
IN
official
high
ijff
H| HIEN
fff.
He was
Yi'AN.
and
is
also
Ti,
called
KOTORO-KOTORO
522.
A game
KOTEI
521.
=f-
/>
flfc
"
See SHINANSHA.
life.
of Chinese
the
oni
touching
the
last
who
oni,
KUBI-KUBI Hf k
523.
an
in
origin,
endless
rope
shown with
three
eyes
on
the
its
The two
he painted from
memory a
worth of
respective
file.
A game
or trial
of
See
opposite directions.
ffi
always
body
of
tells
the
bull,
truth.
It
is
generally with
back.'*
fa
ffif
called
later
Once one
KUDARA NO
Harima
of his servants
no sake at
was
lost,
and
portrait
He wrangled with
found.
the
who
in
pull
of the
occurs he
man and
head of a
KUDARA KAWANARI
525.
this
flanks
tail
When
KUDAN.
line.
the
of
boy
their arts,
and the
architect invited
him
to decorate the
-could
It is interesting to compare with the Kudan the three-legged ass with six eyes, nine mouths, one horn,
and a white body, which, according to the Bundahis, stands in the middle of the sea (E. W. West, Palhlavi texts,
Bundahis XIX,). Its eyes are distributed equally in the usual position, on the top of the head and on the hump
its mouths are three in the head, three in the flank, and three on the hump.
This animal is righteous, and eats
it cleanses the ocean of all corruption.
It is associated with a divinity named Tistar, who had
spiritual food
three forms
that of a man, a bull, and a horse. Can this curious type of unicorn have affected the appearance of
;
the
Kudan
196
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JAPANESE ART.
IN
not get inside as the walls were so contrived as to swing round like doors
and put him out every time he touched them. As a revenge, he asked the
architect to his house, and when at last Hida came he almost flew back at the
unexpected sight of a putrid corpse stretched across the room.
merely as an exhibition of his host's
KUFUJIN
526.
OcENSEN
7
,
^ JC
skill
f[Jj>
was, however,
It
of the
man.
support him, his mother and herself for ten years, after which she ascended
to
heaven
Compare
of
blue
She
cloud.
is
weaving.
represented
TOYEI.
KUGANOSUKE
527.
heroes
form
the
in
dramatic
of
story
The
&J AND HINADARI $| J|.
|f 2.
which took place in the seventh century.
Kuganosuke was the only son of the governor of Kii, Daihanji Kiyozumi,
and the ex-page of the consort of the deposed Emperor Kogyoku.
The
no
Iruka
minister,
who was
Omi,
beginning of
Kotoku's
secretly allied
reign,
suspected
own enemy.
master
practically
the
The same
of
and
father
founder
at
Japan
his
son
of
of
the
Fujiwara
family,
and
family,
his
was Sadataka,
by a small
Iruka
The
river,
attached
suspicion
the
to
being
another
which
commanded
the youth to
come
from him
and he sought
The two offsprings of
the
rival
the
father
on either side
of
Kyoto
to
families,
acting
to
Kaishakunin
as
the
where
river,
her.
marry
their
(second)
the
two
tryst,
to
his
both committed
suicide,
The two
hillocks
son.
youths
lived,
are
still
Imoyama and Seyama. The boy and girl were buried as manand wife.
Takenobu's Tales.
The play based on this story is called Imoseyama.
528.
KUKOKU
man's body.
They
ffi]
live
Hcj.
in
Mythical
creatures
with
197
dog's
head
called
See
on a
See FOREIGNERS.
LEGEND
KUMAGAI NAOZANE
529.
in
He
twelfth century.
the
battle ICHI NO
TANI
JAPANESE ART.
IN
ffi
Q y| ^.
frequently depicted in
is
(1184),
lived
He
(q.v.).
is
The
and
story of
given in
is
Griffis'
Mikado
seq.,
civiles
(Guerres
the episode
du Japori)
to
is
Bertin's
theatrical
Kumagai, when an
officer
in
appearance wading
inquire
into
of both.
much
very
like
to
Kumagai gave up
under the name Renshobo,
sorrow,
him go but
them.
had
for
Atsumori
his calling,
He began
Kojiro.
no
Ichi
at
version
gave
him
his
flute.
Filled
who
with
in the
in 1208.
to him,
ten
it
is
Namu Amida
Butsu.
On
borrowed
repaying the
loan he demanded the return of his deposit, and as his friend repeated the
prayer he was stopped short
monk borrowed
away
his
by
wife,
who
explained that,
when
the
as her
The
530.
KUMASAKA CHOHAN
gR
Jt.
IB-
name,
in
LEGEND
See the story, Tsukt no
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Kumasaka
by Hokusai (signed
(1790), illustrated
Tokitaro).
KUME NO MAI
531.
slaughter of
treacherous
his
men
intoxicated his
of
0)
^. %.
the Aino
chief
YASUTAKERU,
of Yoshino.
it
some
to
suite
his
|!|.
festivities,
he therefore
killed the
During
signal, a
song
Jimmu.
KUME NO SENNIN
532.
0)
fll]
KURUMA $.
Kume
the
from
falling
He
is
See
Vehicle.
shown
Rishi
A-
533.
#.
A common
a house on wheels,
like
used in war
j^
If!
often
toy in
Kiu
Chinese
by
Sha
or
Emperors
dove
or
also
is
consists
carriage
Wakan
A common
and
sansai zuye
first
an implement
as
of
of
on
pigeon
one,
war
it
is
two
wheels,
described
in Todo
as
Kunimo Zue.
an octogonal piece of
wood mounted on two wheels, is a very ancient toy which was pulled
at the end of a string.
Kioden says that it was derived from the Roku
Doku
m,
fl|l
figure standing
sort
of
Buri,
corrugated
consisting
roller
pointing forward
Buri
called
object
is
the Shinansha
of
vehicle,
with the
left
arm extended,
(q.v.).
common
sentations,
subject,
and
the
the wheel
of
the
law
is
often
meant
God
in
is
such
of
repre-
frequent
occurrence.
534.
KURUMA
^C
C7)
(Hi NO).
199
LEGEND
one
fetches
bad people
red,
"To
flames.
Hi
roll the
shape of
proverb
"To be
penniless."
KUSUNOKI MASASHIGE
536.
Kuruma"
no
3L
~jj^
month (Tango
the fifth
rolls
to Hell.
KUSUDAMA
535.
ART.
JAPANESE
devils,
amongst the
IN
7|$f
IE J$.
and
unselfish
Born
in
1294,
son of Kusunoki Masazume, he was given the name TAMONMARO, and was
educated until
He became
years old
fifteen
very
proficient
in
the
at
monastery of Hinozan,
military
huge
cost of thirty
thousand gold
taels.
He devoured
these books,
woods
of
Kagada.
was however
had a dream
the
branches
in
The
In 1331,
of
which
of
the
own
This
south.
tree (Kusu-no-ki),
with
agreed
the
to
practical
TAKATOKI
use.
Akasaka.
who was
entrenched in
pile
was
built
of
dead enemies.
Masashige
men
in the fort
and his troops then escaped one night, leaving only a few
and spread the false news of
SADANAO was deceived by this ruse, and
fire
the etiquette
to
in
desire.
Masashige
Go
to
A wood
him murdered
recommended Masashige;
his
respected,
stretched
camphor
with his
ability
latter got
and
description of a
in accordance
Yamato.
in
the pyre
2QO
his suicide.
after
capturing the
fort
went
< D
IP
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Masashige
expected;
the
his
army
it
the
in
service
fish
of the
ninety-sixth
The
army
The spurious
his
was
that a convoy
bird
led
found
the sun
to
monkey showman,
it,
himself in
went with
Daishi, Masashige
roll
the
in
to
Onchi
enemy.
intercepted
it.
Emperor, whilst
forces
whom
of Takatoki,
he
His next exploit was the siege and capture of Kioto during
defeated (1333).
not
any chance
leave
Kioto
the
of
re-organisation
the
for
of
Hieizan,
peace.
which
Masashige
could
easily
advised
be
Go Daigo
fortified,
to
leave
Nitta
whilst
His advice
YOSHISADA and himself would protect the surrounding country.
was set at nought by the intrigues of the courtier KIYOTAKA (q.v.) and the
obstinacy of the Emperor (1336).
Masashige then
left
At the posting
his
son
strategy.
to
him only
and
own
follow
He
also
own
castle of
Kongozan.
to
prove himself
worthy of his father, and although the episode above related is not credited
by modern critical historians it is still kept in the elementary Japanese
readers.
set
out for
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
the Hiogo coast, where the Emperor, hearing of his decision, sent
order
come back
to
to
but
Kioto;
was
it
raining,
his
men were
Yoshisada
upon
his
faced
the
opponent a slight
On
defeat.
would have
who
inflicted
of Yoshisada
fleet of
Tadayoshi to Masashige,
leaving
lleet,
tired,
him an
seventy- three,
Masashige offering to
replied that
if
let
Chikudo Maru
He
death.
to his castle of
Kongozan
The hero
it
himself,
to
send
oath to send their ghosts unto the seventh generation of their descendants
to
excite
hate against
their
have seven
the Ashikaga,
committed seppuku.
Masashige's head was taken to Kioto to be publicly
exposed, where it was seen by his widow and his son (1336).
Masashige
on
his
face.
is
generally
shown
in
armour, with a
full
on a folding
seat
by the sea
expression
fierce
coast,
is
the big
to
of
crest
is
netsuke,
chrysanthemum
flower
half
Many popular
histories
Masashige have been published, amongst which the History of the Three
Hirose, in 1904,
(1815).
2O2
LEGEND
Go
See further:
JAPANESE ART.
IN
HONMA MAGOSHIRO,
TAKAUJI,
KUSUNOKI MASATSURA $f
commit
seppuku,
twenty-three
full
he
years old,
raised
an
mother.
his
by
In
Kawachi
of
to
when only
1348,
thousand men forming the garrison of the castle of Chihaya, he defeated the
attack of thirteen thousand
He was
In
men under
command
the
Go Murakami with
Takauji, who ran away,
then rewarded by
Kyoto he attacked
of
Hosokawa
AKIUJI.
was
and
killed,
his
In 1349, Ko no
Tadayoshi escaped by an underground passage.
Moronao and Moroyasu attacked him with six thousand men, he went to
brother
Yoshino, and the Emperor told him that he trusted him as his elbows and
thighs;
names with
their
men worshipped
their swords,
tomb
at the
of
Go
Daigo,
poem:
Kayerajito
Azusa yumi
Naki kazu
which
is
"
I
who
still
iru
Naozo todomeru,
on the door now, and means:
are
ni
dead
with
presume, so
bows"
(allusion
to
will
his
keep
my name among
having written
it
those
with
an
arrow).
With
"between
fatally
thousand soldiers
three
rice
fields"
(naivaie),
at
only
he
met
way
to
enemy on
Once, on his
the
Nawate.
the
road
He was
203
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
"Totemo yo
Nagaro bekumo
Aranu mi no
ni
Kari no chigiri
wo
*>
Ikade musuban."
>
can
live
long in
this world."
KUYA SHONIN
538.
&
|g
Old
A-
priest
when on a
who,
He
hammer
is
every time
it
staff in
left,
and a sprig
bamboo
of
in his
mouth.
KUZUNOHA
539.
0)
The
||.
fox wife of
disappearance in a dream.
540.
KWAKKIO.
541.
KWANROKU
treatises
the
(q.v.),
key to her
See KAKKIO.
US
The Corean
]AV
who was
afraid
KWAL-LEUK, who,
priest,
in
Prince Shotoku,
giving ABE
and
ABE xo YASUNA
least
He was rebuked by
the
Imperial
Buddhism.
KWANNON
542.
This
SEVARA).
"|f
Boddhisatva,
Chinese
(the
of
Deity
Mercy,
with
that
of
deified
daughter
whom
it
father
neck.
Kwannon
was
said that,
is
when
to
of
spiritual
China
its
son
a semi-legendary
King
man
204
of
AMIDA,
is
AVALOKITE-
Sanskrit
KWANYIN,
of
Chow,
selected
broke
of
by her
on
her
of
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
damned
(II.,
12)
p.
after which,
released,
lotus flower.
Kwannon
Hades were
Poo Too on a
dzui
the foundations of
fell,
The Butsu
dzo
as:
Senslriit,
various
attributes,
halbert,
etc.
gems,
willow,
lotus,
and
bowl,
begging
wheel,
shakujo,
her hair, with eight arms grasping the sword, axe, wheel, sceptre, and rope.
Jiuichimen,
hand holds a
relic
her
left
holding a
lotus
lotus.
Niorin, the
Kwannon with
supporting
the
right
At
cheek.
in 709
of
is
March
her
last
one
enshrined,
to
and the
with
and
festivals called
Oni Osaye
Juntei.
Kwannon with
and
and bejewelled.
Fiiken, with eight arms and a similar headgear, she
lotus, hosso, and rope.
tiara
of
pyramidal
shape, truncated
Gorin,
heart
with
and the
the
left
carries the
level
shakujo,
with the
thirty-two more presentments of the Goddess, also given in the Butsu dzo
deity.
There
which
it
is
is
in
Nara a
figure
of
Kwannon
called
to
unlawful to pray more than once because she Answers only one
205
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Thirty-three
is
manifests himself
gaze
Kwannon
Kwannon.
to
his
name
signifies:
An image
of
Kwannon was
Gawa)
The image
is
The
follows:
version,
Tenno
it
is
given
there lived
in
on the Golden
Hill,
as
north
Tokyo, where the Asakusa temple now stands, a noble named HASHI NO
Banished from court, he sank to such depths of poverty as to
NAKATOMO.
of
become a fisherman,
top of the
543.
better
hill
and
his
KWANSHIX
blind priest
545.
KWANSHOJO
known under
544.
in
'If JEI
who founded
KWANTAI
transformation
of
5*-
posthumous
Ifsji
IT
or
jtt,
it.
title
of
KWAKKAI DAISHI;
DENTO
also
DAISHI.
^.
One
girdle
emblematic of magistrature.
546.
as
an
KWANYU P
immortal
in
33 (HI
1128
by
*ffif)-
Kao Tsung,
deified
as
God
of
War
under
the
name KWANTI
in
206
KWAXYIT
KUME NO
AMAGOI KUMACHI
SEN.NIN
(.V.)
(ll'.L.R.)
NATIVES OK K1KO
KUSUNOKI MASASHIGK (;/'./...)
KOBITO p.)
KOMEI
(-V.)
(./.)
KWANYU
(./.)
LEGEND
IN
JAPANESE ART.
Peking Gazette (Lyall, Oriental Studies,
in the
Kwanyu began
life
as
of
seller
fortunes
of
prisoner the
him
to
Han
and the
Gentoku
two wives
of
Gentoku, tried to
T'sao
dynasty.
made
having
T'sao,
incite
in their
a passage
in
leading to the apartment, with his drawn sword in one hand and a lantern
in
He was
the other.
Kwanyu
dress,
is
battle
in
219.
grasping in one hand his long black beard (to which he owed his
shown
Gentoku
in
(q.v.).
of the
halberd, or spear.
often
in
(Ehon
killed
Kwanyu
is
shown
Sometimes he
is
Tcheou Tsang
or
receiving
it
on the end
of his halberd
his
own
son,
heroes
Koan
but more
Pin,
of
Gentoku (some-
the wives of
hidden
fierce
behind
hangings),
or
KYOCHI
TAIRO, and
cutter.
He
later
built
was
led
an altar
his
nephew
Mount Gi by a divinity disguised as a wood
and learnt Taoism.
One day he saw a fairy
to
coat drop at his feet from the sky, and as soon as he shouldered
bore him
clouds
aloft.
KYOSEIGAN
it
207
in
it
the
mane
to the
of a
abode of
LEGEND
The
mankind;
let
"This horse
said:
latter
JAPANESE ART.
IN
a dragon under
is
it
went
to
and
told,
When
Isui.
to
said:
"when
me from a
place
named
and
useless
care,
my
horse
the
reached
water
the
was
it
mane,
once
at
KYOSENHEI
549.
Mount JOYO
of
To.
This
latter
had
sage
t^J
the
of
%*,
reign
came
to
lived
^^
Eiso
of
in
live
the
same
gather wood, and once one of them met Kyosenhei seated on a rock,
is
Kyosenhei
the
of
of
her
who
master
KYOSHINKUN
550.
one
that he
her
told
in
in
later,
iff-
He
a peach to a page).
(offers
KYOMEIJO
neighbour,
mountain a century
Tokuso.
the
His
fp
Taoist
^.
The Chinese
who
died at
jit
jvj
patriarchs,
thirty-six years,
SUN
Hi)
ff-
jg (Kyo
son),
hundred
and
to
of his household,
amusement, but once he shot a fawn with an arrow, and the sight of the
doe licking her dead progeny led him to reform and to enter a career of
in
study
and
He was
practices.
religious
able
to
fire
KYOYO
and
cure
in
diseases,
make gold
flood.
HI fg lived
in
the time of
Bu
of Shyu.
He had
six
and they all learnt magic, built a hut, and became fairies. When
he ascended to Heaven he left his hut on the mountain, which is therefore
brothers,
called the
552.
KYUSHOKI
Emperor Taiso
of
it
Gen.
Jr
J|l
dead
of
the
time
of
the
a
/.
LEGEND
553.
LAO
554.
LAUGHERS
Name
TSZE.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
See ROSHI.
Hsu
of
THREE)
(The
KOKEI SANSHO
Hsi.
in pictures,
usually given to a Chinese story, frequently illustrated
of a third
One
it.
to leave
Two
it.
his
vow, but
away
in vain.
Once,
more copious
series of
two beguiled the old man over the small bridge connecting
island with the rest of the world, and then the three made fun of it.
libations, the
his
A
Hsiao
Wu
is
on the
Ssu,
thirty
years,
Hu
Two
Hsi,
friendly literati,
|?
sei)
the
556.
LITERATURE
557.
LIU PANG.
558.
LIU PEL
(Gon
See
mountain
for
$ ^,
them
q.v.),
and one
it.
See
Wakan
of).
See MAO-CH'ANG.
KAN NO Koso.
See GENTOKU.
LOK-LI-SEN-SAI (Kio
See KAKWOKO.
Greyheads.
559.
560.
Tung Lin
See RIHAKU.
TAI PEH).
(Li
the
left
PEH
temple
LI
^^
555.
the time of
ljj,
In
LOST CASH
Li SIEN SHENG).
(Story of the).
One
of the
Four Recluse
once at night ten cash in the waters of the Nameri Gawa, and sending for
209
LEGEND
men and
fifty
JAPANESE ART.
IN
torches
Some
of
his
expenditure, and he
if he had not spent-
none
therefore
apparently
unprofitable
lost
and
this
upon
way
has
This
him
chided
friends
the Awoto
in
unprofitable.
Fujitsuna-moryo-an of
vols.).
Awoto Sayemon
trait of
561.
LOVE
562.
LU TUNG PING.
563.
LU WEN.
(Goo
OTA FUJITSUNA.
see
of).
An
See RIOTOSHIN.
Sennin.
old
man who
fell
while
asleep
the
watching
YUAN CHAO
Chinese tale of
the
in
MAGATAMA
564.
&)
Comma-shaped
-fe.
with the
stones associated
made
sometimes
weapons
whether
of
the
their
hunters of
to
serve
and
Gods,
as
were
netsuke.
As jewels
used
necklaces.
as
wearing
claws
the
and
teeth
from
of
the
decorated
they
One
followed
animals
wild
the
may wonder
custom
the
They
they
by
had
killed.
565.
MAITREYA
|Jjg
incarnation of BUDDHA,
MAKO
fjlj
Buddha Shaka.
j$t
$j
in
depicted sitting
(also
or
See
MAKU).
Wang
became
She
is
the Western
next
fashion
expected
instead
of
HOTEL
Female Sennin
fang-p'ing),
The
MIROKU).
(Japanese,
transformed
into
Cinnabar, in
210
presence
of
her
brother's
disciple,
LEGEND
Ts'ai
King
nails,
Japan Mako no
Mangwa shows
MAMORI.
568.
MANDARA
form of a hand
in
MANZAI
jUj
$j|,
MANDALA.
or
of
Word
|||.
of
Circle
congratulation
or
Tokugawa
the
dynasty)
lion's
when
custom
(a
are
Kina are
MAO CH'ANG
DAI
called
j|.
MARISHITEN
It
spear,
and
of
is
with
eight
bow and
^
is
^Ij
^ ^.
of
Brahmanic
arms,
under
the
who
of
in
netsuke,
Literature,
carrying
often
shown
one
as
He
lived in
being a transformation of
learn to trade.
the sun,
of
light.
the moon,
It
The Deity
resides in
a star
big Bear, and her husband, the Deva of the dipper with her nine
sons, in Sagittarius.
Marishiten
is
also called
in
streets
of Odes.
the
The
Year.
New
B.C.,
boar.
God
Chinese
One
is
of
also used.
mounted on a
form
curtailed
introduced
571.
of
they
mai),
(Shishi
570.
assemblage
Mikawa Manzai
called
two,
in
groups
called
is
See CHARMS.
name
said to have
is
3| P
BUNKI MANDARA.
569.
She
(hand of Mako).
te
567.
divinities.
minister of
(Saikio),
JAPANESE ART.
IN
MARRIAGE
(GOD
of).
GEKKAWO.
211
Queen
of Heaven,
and some-
LEGEND
MASAKADO
573.
who
a warrior
IN
$f
JAPANESE
(HEISHIN NO
ART.
enabled by magic to create about his person ghostly retainers identical with
himself in appearance and deportment so as to
to
TAWARA TODA
be detected.
to
it
kill
him
impossible for
and
him,
getting
crowd whilst they were asleep he felt the wrist of each to find
None had any but Masakado, who was forthwith despatched to
this
amongst
a pulse.
realm of shades,
the
decided
(q.v.)
make
disappeared.
The
when
historical
version
however, as follows:
is,
No
himself Heishin
ment
the Fujiwara
of
own
uncle, Taira
The
to recognise him.
latter
was avenged by his son, Taira no Sadamori, who led the Fujiwara troops
The Story of Masakado's rebellion goes on to
and defeated Masakado.
the
effect
known
Hidesato (better
that
as
enlist
latter,
to
who
was
dining, picked
fearing
he
that
caused
like
him,
baffle
he
Hidesato.
to
rice
an
become
might
several
arid
up some
(some say
imitate
five)
his
-The stratagem
pseudo-Masakados, when
such a way that he had
of
was
he
in
to
his
to
his
retainers
to
movements
three
lost
victim
easy
on
successful
began
reply,
the
until
abusing
arrows
Hidesato's
be
dressed
exactly
battlefield
so
Hidesato
had
roundly
the
his
as
to
killed
real
one
identity
life.
M. Bertin, in his Guerres du Japan, identifies this arrow with the one
wetted with saliva which killed the centipede of the legend, and he sees
that centipede,
Mukade, a
bag
of rice
in
representing the
is
simple:
Masakado's
LEGEND
castle
IN
for
JAPANESE ART.
MASAKO
who was
Morinaga,
retainer,
-$-.
*jfc
this
destroyed
letter
and
wrote
another,
but his
asking
for
made
to
dream
Yoritomo's
of
and
letter,
of
her
sister.
Masako,
Yoritomo,
influence,
remained Hojo
however,
she
although
retired
to
from
and
the core,
and
world
the
after
the death of
first
575.
MASASHIGE.
576.
MA SHE WANG.
577.
MASKS
were
See KUSUNOKI.
See BASHIKO.
greatly
used
for
No
and other
dances
theatrical
performances to cover the face of the performer and represent the classical
face
of certain
individual,
masks
War masks
hero,
devil,
deity,
legendary animal,
ghost,
etc.,
Masks appear
to
New
Year's
oldest
2I 3
two
eyes.
becomes square
hundred years
of
expellers
in
people
who
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
masks, dating from the Xllth and Xlllth century, have strong hard features
noses.
century), Gigaku,
as
is
it
Okame
29),
No
masks, perhaps
not the best pieces but nevertheless beautiful specimens of the mask maker's
art,
Gonse
tells
chiefly
on the Continent,
There
does
that
us
not
appear
specimen.
any
representative
for
masks
decorative purposes,
standard trade
the
be
goods stores
secured
of
of
late
years,
see
in
netsuke, in
In
much
small
masks
in
of
mask
of
mask
collection
article.
Too many
smaller
finest
and
made
worthless imitations
collectors,
insight,
to
Mr.
true
Dry
rare,
prix,
with
England.
for
vil
in
life,
fail
masks
No
are
groups
wax
netsuke
to
may
who do
if
skill as to
it
were of natural
common,
often
size.
the
representing
mask
of
The
tints,
crane.
The names
of large
Howo
No masks
bird:
it
was
said
in
red and in Kana, but Japanese dealers' marks are apt to be found written in
a similar way.
Few comprehensive
illustrated
lists
214
of
Muller's
LEGEND
exhaustive essay in the
of the
list
has
No
therefore
large space,
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Toung Pao
gives a
in
been
and
advisable
thought
to
give a
to
devote
some use
1.
3.
4.
AKUBO, wicked
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
subject
a fairly
list
may
prove
to collectors.
2.
this
It
list
to
figures.
priest
in
the KOKK\VA).
(K).
T).
man
(K and M).
5,
10.
AMA ZA
11.
ASAKURA,
12.
AYAKIRI, Gigaku
13.
14.
BESHIMI, demon's
15.
CHOREI
KURO.
see KOJO.
BESHIMI,
mask
mask
(S-J).
(T,
variant
W,
of
(S-J).
Sun, HM).
Beshimi,
chief
Oni
(Mu).
See
also
6.
17.
(S-J).
19.
20.
CHOJA,
18.
Gigaku mask
of
face
with
hooked
nose.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
WAKA
CHUJO, or
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
26.
(Muller, Berlin
Museum
fur Volker-
See JOMEIKANJA.
kunde).
God
27.
FUDO,
28.
29.
FUKUJIN, lucky
man
woman
(HM).
30.
31.
32.
33.
34.
Sambasso mask.
It
same shape
of the
is
(Sun, T, Mu).
face (K).
identical
Okina as a
with
is
all black.
the
35.
HANNYA, mask
No,
representations of
of a female
demon,
of frequent occurrence;
Aoi
no
ue,
Momijigari,
Hikohichi,
etc.
(Sun,
used in
the
in
K, M,
T, Mu).
36.
37.
38.
HEMI
39.
HIOTTOKO,
Jo, old
man's
mask with
in
lips,
the
mouth brought
41.
forward in
dancers as
Kiogen (HM).
40.
far
or Raiden (q.v.)
(M, Mu).
42.
IKKAKU SENNIN
(q.v.),
head.
Ao
of the
43.
44.
45.
JIDO, boy's
46.
JISUNGAMI,
47.
Jo, generic
(Sun).
"Ten
name
feet
for
fore-
Kami"
masks
No
Kikujido (Sun).
216
men (HM).
BUAKU
(././;.)
MAGOJIRO
KIJO
SHOJO
(M. r.)
(U.T.)
(O.L.K.)
SAMBASO (./.)
OX (.-/..)
hEIKKO (./..)
I
nr.ic.AX
(H.I.)
BOSATSU ("././.'.)
SOJOHO (n:i..ii.)
KAMIXAK1
(/(./.)
RlUJIX's ATTKX1IAXT
RAKAX
KITKAI
ROCO
(O.C.K.)
(.-;./;.)
(./..)
(ir.C..l.)
LEGEND
48.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
man
beard
when
51.
No
man
with
restful
perhaps Kikujido
expression,
older.
50.
name
JIUROKU, "sixteen"
No
of the
of
same
(T).
God
52.
53.
(M).
lih,
China), hero of a
55.
KATSUJIKI,
man
in
57.
58.
59.
60.
61.
62.
63.
64.
65.
66.
67.
68.
69.
Ko
70.
71.
KUMASAKA,
72.
73.
man (Sun).
man (BMfV).
74.
(S-J).
75.
76.
56.
(S-J).
man"
TOGAN KOJI
(T).
(S-J).
priest.
see
(M).
KUMASAKA CnoiiAN
man
217
(K).
JINEN KOJI.
LEGEND
77.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
"
MAMBI,
conspicuous
eyebrows,"
perfect
their
by
absence
(\V,
Gillot).
mask
78.
MASU, or MASUGAMI,
79.
girl's
(K).
80.
"retired
85.
NANJA,
"Man snake"
(BMfV).
religious
OBESHIMI,
Niudo means
life."
hornless
Heshimi,"
"great
mask
demon's
with
mouth
of hair
on the
OKA.ME, see
87.
illustrated
88.
89.
90.
at
HM,
(M,
Sambasso
KINA,
forehead and
UZUME
mask
Gillot).
of
old
man, with
tufts
corners of
Roman mask
by Floegels (Munsterberg).
OMOXI (BMfV).
name
demon (HM).
OTOBIDE, Great TOBIDE, devil's mask with open mouth, black
ONI, generic
for
beard,
93.
RASHOMON, mask
Tsuna (Mu,
Rachomon,
see
Watanabe no
Gillot).
94.
95.
RAN
mask
of
Rio,
mask
of the
Gigaku
(S-J).
woman
96.
97.
98.
SAISORO, Gigaku
99.
SAMBA, or SAMBASSO
mask
(T).
(Gillot).
(S-J).
(q.v.),
see the
masks
KUROKAMI (/)
SHO-JO
MASU
.MAMBI
(/l.f.)
(B.I.)
(f.A..V.)
RANKIU
(../.)
CHICHI NO JO (*./.)
JISUNGAMI (/.'./.)
YACE O.NNA
(('.,/. .I/.)
KACHOMON" (O.C.R.)
KOKUSHIKI (./.)
VACK OTOKO (./)
HASHIJIME (C..-/.^/.)
SHISIII
(/.'./)
JOMEIKAXJA
DEVI I.
SHAKA
(K.I,)
(f..-l.M.)
(I'.A.tl.)
'
LEGEND
of
JAPANESE ART.
IN
pulled out.
100.
Sankobo
101.
old
of
man
originated
by the carver
K, M).
(T,
several
amongst
variants,
which
easily
(S-J).
103.
104.
105.
06.
SHI KAMI,
famous
of the
(S-J).
107.
108.
109.
SHINTAI, man's
no.
in.
112.
113.
SHOJO
114.
SHUNKWAN, mask
of
(q.v.),
mask
(S-J).
(K).
mouth extended
man
in
W,
(Sun,
T).
(K, M).
115.
same name
116.
of the
No
of the
is
flat
ears,
man with
See KAPPA.
117.
118.
TAKO, or HIOTTOKO, or IGO, often with one eye open, the other
closed,
of
Shunkwan, hero
(q.v.)
SUIKO,
the priest
19.
20.
TENGU
head,
the
(q.v.),
the old
is
mouth.
similar to Saruto,
SOJOBO'S
added a wig
219
(B-I).
is
the Karasu
also
mask
Comic mask.
is
Tengu type
met with, and very
often
identical with
LEGEND
121.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
winking eyes
smile,
(Gillot).
Owada
122.
TORU (BMfV,
123.
124.
DBA, old
see
woman (HM,
126.
UOBIYOE (BMfV).
UZUME, see OKAME.
127.
WAKA
125.
128.
Tateki,
vol.
4).
Sun, M).
WAKA
130.
131.
YAKAN,
129.
132.
133.
Gillot).
Gillot).
mask (BMfV).
YAMA NO KAMI, Lord of the Mountain, sometimes three eyed (HM, W).
YAMA UBA (q.v.), female mask, sometimes with white hair painted
(Gillot).
135.
YORIMASA
136.
YOSHISADA NITTA
(q.v.)
(K, T, Gillot).
(q.v.),
teeth
lip,
an arrow cut
YOROHOSHI
138.
Zo, or
(also
Zo OXXA,
priest (Sun).
see FUKAI.
F.
W.
of
No
names
in
and gives
the
all
radicals.
M.
Dr. O.
G.
MUNSTERBERG, Japanische
Ktinstgeschichte,
Westermann, 1906
(II.).
BMfV.
S.
Berlin
The Sun
Museum
$%.
fur
Vol.
part
220
and
Tokyo Hakubunkwan,
1895.
SIII\VAJ<> (O.C.K-)
CHOJO
1XJJI
KONKWAI
MAMHI
Sl'MIYOSHI OTOKO
YACK OTOKO
OBKSH1.MI
RACIIOMON
IIWA
(.iillot
TOKUAKA
YACK ONNA
Collect on
JOROKU
OTOHIDE
TSURIMANAKO
YORIMASA
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
NAMES
45678
OF MASKS.
10
II
12
13
14
15
l6
17
l8
ig
2O
It
(?)
43
44
21
22
fa
It it it 7
23
24
26
25
27
28
30
29
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
45 46
*-^ftbja t
g P
it
-T
47 48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
xl
60
61
ill
62 62.\ 620 63
*
69
70
71
72
73
74
76
77
78
79
80
Si
82
83
rr
B4
W
93' 94
75
Htf
BIS
95
96
97
98
85
86
-V
106
66
87
88
89
90 91
Uj
qj
no in
67
X.
{;
84
65
m
H
fr Jg
JE,
64
68
&
92
lC
'
'
Hit I
^n
i^i^
5 _ _tt_
Il6 117 Il8 Iig 120 121 122 123 124 125 126
127
m
221
128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138
LEGEND
The SHUKOJISSHU
S-J.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
^j
~f* fj|,
parts
i,
(musical instruments,
of
The
T.
which
thirty
Tokivai
encyclopaedia,
3,
of the
Gakki section
of
are named.
Settsu
Hyakka
Tsu
(1835),
quoted by
The KOKKWA,
K.
artists
HM.
named
W.
HOKUSAI'S MAXGWA,
vol.
2,
of
of the art.
pages 9 and
10.
Thirty-two
masks
kana.
in
Wakan
hon
by Muller.
Gashosha,
Mu.
Bijitsu
is
Dai
Givaho,
of
Magazine
Nippon
Japanese
Eitai
art,
1898.
mnjinzo,
setsuyo
1849
(Encyclopaedia),
Nihon
1898.
KONGO,
Bitei
OWADA
Ippan f|
$.
No
given by Muller.
Owada
Tateki,
No
in
the
FAR EAST,
24/25,
1898.
I.,
1898.
L.MIGEOX, Les Chefs d'oeuvre de 1'Art Japonais (three plates of masks out
of a
BROCKHAUS, Netsnke,
E.
of Art,
October, 1898.
1905.
1897.
de
I'
par
la
Commission Imperiale,
Kamen
222
Paris,
LEGEND
MATAHEI
578.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
(DoMO
NO,
name.
his stammering, he
led
by
tomb.
stone,
Takenobu, who
alive:
the
a stone
work that
granted him
this,
This, however,
the
is
legendary;
gives the story, states that Shogen died long before Matahei's
paper,
much
to
and
579.
MATAXO XO GORO
580.
MATSUO KOTEI.
scene
latter
its
once rose
lias
been
is
his
of his personages
The
astonishment.
Matahei
pictured by Yoshimori.
much
and a host
priest,
his
is
from
TOSA.
of
became
his
name
birth.
slab, part of
his
was
rare.
Strong
J$ |f ft Jjfc (KAGEHISA f; ffr).
wrestler depicted throwing a stone at Sanada Yoichi, or wrestling with
Kawazu no Saburo. He was named after the village of JNIatano.
the
artificial
island
of
It
related
is
that
Tsukijima,
consulted
propitiated
before
the
It
lair of
came
to
dragon,
success.
who
Thirty
to
be
men were
to
required
were to be
set
bearing
travellers to
Hiogo, but such an uproar was raised by the people that the
propitiating
581.
MATSUYAMA NO KAGAMI
223
0) $%.
The mirror
of Matsu-
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
One day a man from Echigo was called to the capital, and as the
journey was then a very long one he parted sorrowfully from his wife and
yama.
uncommon
promising that
months
from
present
and
elapsed,
if
at
the
last
to
them.
console
returned to
his
home,
bringing to his daughter some toys and to his wife a metal mirror, which
excited her wonder,
village.
or
Eight
weeks the
illness
for
nine
later
years
became
ail,
in
a few
her
to
some
her
calling her
daughter
parting
gift
she
felt
and
gave
bedside,
last
advice.
and,
As a
if
ever
After a year of
soon
began
to
herself
to the stepmother,
who
accused
against her.
The
was watching
the mirror,
metal
she hid
the
father one
in
girl
day lightly
and
mirror
the
as
working charms
stepped into her room whilst she
to
saw
she
her
his
father,
face
of
Her father thought that her conand severely questioned her. She then
her sleeve.
fusion
582.
his
MEI SO GEN.
583.
MIIDERA
584.
MIKENJAKU
(BELL
J|j
See BENKEI.
OF).
frU
The
X..
two
representations of this
legend are
male
the
other
LEGEND
IN
He
sent
female.
JAPANESE ART.
one to the King but buried the other,
to
if
He
fact,
always covered with moisture, the astrologers said that it was weeping for
His wife
its mate; thereupon the smith was sent for, tortured, and killed.
flew to the mountains with her son, and remained there
boy reached
manhood, when he fetched the sword. At that time the King had a dream
that he would be killed by a man whose eyebrows (Miken) were separated
His confident, HAKUCHU, who had a
by a distance a foot (Shakit) wide.
grudge against him having heard of
took
it,
it
till
the
as a token that
Mikenjaku
When
end
of
that
it
to be boiled in
period
the
saw
the latter
a
so terrified
of
appearance
was
the head he
head
had
not
changed,
and
Hakuchu
told
King's head;
tlie
Hakuchu
seized
it
and threw
it
into
the cauldron,
where the
585.
MICHIZANE.
586.
MIKOSHI
$|J
See
JlL.
dummy
image
MIKOSHI-NIUDO
or
TEMMANGU.
587.
See MORINAGA.
j&
A
225
of
Deity inside;
it
is
Go Toba
it-
the
(1108-1123).
LEGEND
lolling tongue,
JAPANESE ART.
IN
consists
in
This
by a monster.
lord
who
an episode
is
Kyushu had
of
Shiranui,
him
HM
MIKUNI KOJORO
588.
the spot
In
her.
MIMIDZUKA
589.
whom
this
lord,
in his palace
monster became
the
guise
whose death
it
caused
If j|.
stands in
the
in the
the
kill
As
her,
favourite
a short while.
in
at
troops of Hideyoshi.
The
him
in
S|5-
violent
tried to ruin
>h ~&
Kyoto, erected on
after
war
being removed
of 1592-98
by the
Cha
Ka
(ether),
(wind), A'a
590.
MINAMOTO
591.
MINATO GAWA
592.
MING HWANG.
593.
MINOGAME
mythology
the most
some
common
grow when
it
is
H=
J||.
The
tortoise
but
tiger).
The
was too
hairy tortoise
is
irresistible
often
226
tail,
said to
unnoticed.
One
of
(earth).
.4
(the Kirin
tortoises presents
(water),
See GENJI.
$jl
f|
Wa
(fire),
of
a chance of punning to be
shown carrying on
its
back a
MOMOTARO
(C.P.P.)
(M.T.)
(,^.)
MOMOTARO
MOMOTARO (M.r.)
(./.)
LEGEND
with
huge
rock,
itself,
perhaps
three
the
as
JAPANESE ART.
or
more
modification
as a pedestal for
tortoise
IN
inscribed
The
the
used
Chinese,
emblematic
custom
in
a likely
itself
or
of
and
longevity,
other
of
the
world
the
pillar
such
as
found
of
the
of
an elephant,
JOKWA
The
tortoise
as
legendary
patriachs,
long
particularly
blind minogame,
the bottom
treatment
Empress
Heaven.
of
the
were, according
he
by
HORAI
show
to
of
tortoise
personages
shattered
the
feet
attributes of
Sennins,
consolidate
to
after
(q.v.)
at
tablets,
Chinese
the
is
the
of
Mount
even
or
jewels,
sea.
0)
dwells
fjfj,
It
rises
it
flj|
to
the surface,
in
place
it,
its
it
must
find
eye
await some friendly gust of wind to turn upside down both tortoise and
board. This Buddhist parable from the Hoke Ryo has passed into a proverb
The
cranes.
story
the
of
given in Ehon
is
monkey and
the
tortoise
speak whilst in
The
terrapin
One
illustrated.
dangling
from
the small
tortoises
ponds.
but
the
to the
is
"The moon
and
of
in
their
and
bills,
minogame wished
ground
where
it
to
died,
22).
(//.,
tortoise,
which the
in
A minogame
fast,
to
23,
Hokan, IV.,
sees
string
sold
This custom
is
place
among
proverbs.
is
above the
by
is
its
pedlars,
called Hojoye,
parapet
of
bridge,
this
represents
ijfj
loose."
227
let
LEGEND
MIRRORS,
594.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
For
KAGAMI.
or
magic
mirrors
Chamberlain's
see
MATSUYAMA NO KAGAMI,
MATSUYAMA.
see
KAGAMI BUTA,
netsuke, the
face of
which
is
turned to a circular
is
flat
shape, in one or
two
pieces,
it
is
called
is
is
unclean."
and made
into
women
bells.
was
woman who,
amongst myriads tf
others thrown in a heap to await melting, rued her deed, and wished to
have the mirror back, but she could not afford to buy it back from the priest
after
as she
was too
mirrors went
poor.
to
it
left
it
of
unto the
MIRROR or TSURAYUKI.
Tsurayuki, the author relates
In
bell.
the diary
Tosa
Nikki,
of
court
noble,
Sumiyoshi
in the
the
Osaka
river,
needed.
Tsurayuki thought:
give the
God my
mirror;
and
as the
Kagami touched
the water the waves disappeared and the sea became smooth.
595.
MIROKU.
See MAITREYA.
596.
MIRUME.
See HELL.
597.
MITSUKUNI
ffi [U.
MITO NO Ko MON,
228
7jC
f*
^ H>
or
MlTO NO
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Kaname
be dug up.
the Reigi
riu
Ten,
Dai Nihon
be
to
Imperial ceremonial),
of the
work
(a
shi
hundred
over five
and
published,
enterprises
the
with
koku
30,000
compilation
The
to
He caused
volumes, dealing
fostered
also
credited
is
EARTHQUAKE FISH)
Ishi (see
solid
of
He
grandson of leyasu.
cost of these
of
to
rice
their
achievement.
MITSUME
598.
~EL
'h
tH"-
Mangwa, under
this
the
with
creation
ghostly
the
Tibetan
PALDEN
deity,
LHAMO,
which,
inches
four
long,
of a recently
blue,
devil
in
her
mule,
is
$f
(TADA
ffl
assistance,
horse.
eyes,
and
sitting
on
and cropper
thirst
of
human
human
in
which
are
bodies.
blood,
drunk
highly preferable.
MITSUNAKA
of
in
girth
quenches her
question
daughter
the
three
came
with
is
out of a skull.
599.
man
flayed
snakes,
The female
painted dark
chestnut mule.
living
Queen VICTORIA.
the
King
of
and as a token
He awoke
the
B9
under a
tree.
He dreamt
that a lady
He promised
dragons.
to
give
her
him with a
his
perfect
he then spent a week praying at the shrine of Sumiyoshi, and killed the
of
and
Rokusonno Tsunemoto.
fishing
proclivities
229
His
of his
of Mitsunaka.
own
son, Genkei,
father on
religious
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Manju wanted two swords made, but although the most renowned masters
to
Chikuzen
tested
was
known
thereafter
Mitsunaka
as Hisa maru.
is
Raiko (Yorimitsu,
COCK.
in
q.v.)
a wood.
was
his
derived from
the
Celebrated painter.
See MATAHEI
MITSUMI TOSA.
the knee,
cleft
See NAKAMITSU.
eldest son.
and
blades were
the
Goo.
When
prayer.
of criminals
and was
He
days of continuous
seven
after
satisfy him,
is
The three-comma
E-
Iriscele,
it
See under
figure.
may, however, be
three-legged
also
may
It
The single-comma
which
in
it
figure
appears
cut
or
to the futatsutomoye
mitsutomoye respectively.
tsuba, especially
the
through
might
metal,
Magatama
amongst old
indeed
be
pieces,
only an
elongated
of
crests (man)
and
a
it
is
hidari mitsutomoye
leaves
red
no
602.
his
and
free space
blue
the
point to the
respectively,
pupil SHURINOSUKE.
Once
his
resembles
MITSUZUMI TOSA
disgrace he started
Ronin.
when they
when
commas
left.
In
point clockwise,
the
Korean
flag
circle
coloured
to
-fa
jf
the
Name
had
fallen
life
had traced
230
it
into
of
who
LEGEND
in
damage
their
JAPANESE ART.
IN
who
district.
followed the peasants and found a tiger asleep at the back of his house at
the foot of a
of a
bamboo
He gave
was a copy
by Ganki, and that the copyist could be no other
hedge.
well-known picture
No
were
lost in
satisfactorily to
and he succeeded
of TOSA.
if
MIURA NO OSUKE
Minamoto clan
and
tiger,
it
603.
it
in
their
much
nothing
if ^C
fifr-
He was
the Taira.
struggle against
eighty-nine
years old when he was besieged in his fort of Kinugasa by Kaneko lyetada
own
weapons
led
sortie,
falling
He
legend.
no Maye
$J
fi
ft
killed
the
Tamamo
(q.v.).
605.
^^
MIYAMATO MUSASHI
two-sword
was
HM
MIURA KURANOSUKE
604.
left
fifteen
years old,
and
killed
He began
the
life
of a ronin
of
the
when he
thinking to avenge him, challenged Musashi, and met him with a shower of
stones
in
Once, while
wounding him.
lost his
and met a grey-headed and dignified old man, who invited him to his house.
On the way Musashi boasted of his achievements, and the old man laughed.
Musashi then, heedless of the age of his
attacked him, but the old
man
companion, drew
his
sword and
231
lid.
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Musashi, recognising his stupidity, apologised, and stayed with the old man,
who was no
eventually taught
of the life of
him
Musashi (Japan
in the
Days
of Yore,
Vol.
IV.).
been
whom
Gwanryu,
he killed.
Since
called
(Shoho
4),
MIZARU.
607.
MOGUSA NO GANSO
who wandered
Goshiu,
moxas
See APES.
are called
608.
0)
the forests
in
ji
of
M-
in
MO HAKUDO
if (MAO Po TAG).
f&
Four
recluse,
Liu TAO
elixir vita?,
of
which
Mo Hakudo and
Liu Tao
Tung
MOJO
foolish
erstwhile companions
their
how
after
they
saw
at
pilgrims.
^C.
when
stuff
Youthful female of
wild aspect, with straight thick hair, carrying branches of pine and peach
trees, with fruits and blossoms, also a makimono and a basket containing
some loquats (Japanese medlars). She is usually clad in skins. Two Chinese
travellers, Juntai and Inshikyo, who met her waiting upon a Sennin in the
mountains
of
Su, questioned
a bird.
She
her,
needles,
is
becoming so
also called
Mogioku Kio.
232
was able
to soar
LEGEND
610.
Seikwa,
it
JAPANESE ART.
IN
on his sleeve
it
MOKIN 5; ^,
till
He was a hermit
sceptre.
He
it
of
lived
upon
Mount Kwain.
of
MOMIJI.
612.
The Maple,
gai
'i
%L id $?>
leaves
is
also
given
the
to
This subject
emblems
of
sake
maple
in
the
is
netsitkc,
of
Taira
sake
no
on maple
is
Amongst
leaves,
five-fingered
the best
maple
MOMOTARO
613.
sometimes seen
autumn, much
symbolise October.
purple
is
legend
Warming
(q.v.)
of
name
in
the
Bukuro.
The
Picnics to view
red.
this
of
leaf
Koremochi,
as
an(J
the
is
the numerous
known
called
$fc
^C
Ko
I|$.
is
poems
inspired
by the sight
no te:
of
(q.v.).
child's hand.
Little Peachling.
One day the wife of a poor woodcutter went to the river hard by to
wash same clothes. As she was preparing to return home she perceived a
coming along the water, and on reaching it with a stick found
was a peach larger than she had ever seen or heard of before. She
large object
that
it
took
it
man
cut
home, washed
it
it,
and handed
it
to her
whom
husband
to open.
As the
elders
The
on
and
his road.
2 33
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
in
They got
and had a
stiff
self
Devil's fortress.
fight
which
in the fray.
made him
similar requests,
was waiting
for
of the woodcutter,
becoming
ropes
and
liberally
He
club.
returned to the
thereafter a rich
home
of the
community.
The
story
is
in
variously represented
often
art,
with great
but
detail,
humorously a monkey.
calls
found
will be
Lengthy translations
Tales of Old Japan, and
in the
614.
MOXGAKU SHOXIX
615.
MONKEY
often
is
depicted
in the
Kobunsha
work
of T. Ozaki,
in
the
Mitford's
A.
See
(Saru).
company with
in
ENDO MORITO.
Satow
Magical,
shown
on
cloud
or
blowing
his
hair
into
MONKEY.
as
ruse
of
war.
See
KUSUNOKI MASASHIGE.
MONKEY SERVANT.
Nickname
of
ugly.
Monkeys are
of frequent
often decorate the scabbards of short swords, while the red-faced variety
is
art,
is
one of the signs of the Zodiac, and as such associated with the horse
234
LEGEND
A monkey
(q.v.).
common
The monkey
of
of
Momotaro,
to
appears
legend
with
connected
moon
in
the
subject.
be
in the water,
to
Monkeys trying
design.
no
but
or caught by an octopus,
this
shown
also
is
JAPANESE ART.
IN
he
is
a few
in
the
companion
tales,
amongst
BOAR.
boar once
would
kill
baby.
his
By
this
ruse
he saved his
after
and
life
earned
the
infant to his
gratitude of
the
parent (Ozaki).
the
MONKEY and
the CRAB.
is
called
A monkey
rice
cake
which he was taking home, deluded him into exchanging this delicacy for a
The crab accepted, and planted the seed, which soon
dry persimmon seed.
grew into a
were
fine
tree.
The monkey
and one
as
clay,
tree,
when
when
tree
the persimmons
who
not climb up to
the
espied
asked him to
it.
let
The
persimmons with such force that he almost killed the crab.
of the latter got roused, and getting together an army of crabs,
unripe
family
war on
simian
the
peace
was
race.
and decided
concluded with
the
Saru
to
monkeys, and
after
to
bring
his
little
doom.
time
had elapsed without trouble the offender was humbly invited to visit the
son of the wounded crab to renew their broken friendship.
The monkey
came, and was given the place of honour near the
235
fire,
LEGEND
He then began
low.
was
to
JAPANESE ART.
IN
amongst the
the kitchen to wash
laid
He rushed
ashes,
when
his burns,
He thought
was hard
which
by, waiting
fell
the
mortar and pestle dropped upon him from a shelf above, so bruising him
that the crabs
had no trouble
JELLY FISH.
the
despaired of his
unless
life
in
among
RIUJIN,
his lieges,
He
lie
who was
fish,
then able
walk on four
wormed
soon
mind,
legs
the
out of
secret
rather
we monkeys have
wearisome, so that
have
and
left
mine hanging
And now
and
of Riujin,
was
was
across
sick
the
back
her
weeping, and
them
is
you should
tree;
credulous,
and
though
little
expecting
jelly,
and
all
shell
the bones
body.
on
of
fishes
jelly
sad,
riding
its
feigning great
taken from
in
sent
then,
five livers,
fish,
"Willingly would
the
gives a
somewhat
and wished
sea
to
to
the
Saru asked
a monkey's
for
find
one
Riugu.
why
version
different
the
monkey,
On
the
jelly
liver;
Otohime, daughter
the
Kame
(tortoise)
way
fish
they met
was
grieving
the
into
Kurage
when
the
LEGEND
IN
JAPANESE ART.
not to come back, and after a while, Riujin heard the whole story,
he ordered that Kurage's bones be extracted from his body.
This
is
called
Kame
Saru
Noru
no
$jj
when
story
j^-
Tibetan tale
may
The
some fancy
for
she induced
him
not climb
some
to
growing on
fruits
shore,
The
so he sought the
trees,
fruit
good
lizard,
fast
young one
affairs
home
The female
friends.
who
a passing monkey,
offices of
however, could
a neigh-
in
lizard,
wondering
who became
to his mother,
not
The
very
wroth, and sent him back with a cunning message that she was dying, and
could only recover by eating the heart of a monkey.
unsuspecting friend to
his
visit
The
his
way
told
him
want;
put back to
then
parting
monkey
words
if
of
he could, and
that
to
The
decided to
kill
the
his
lizard
one
in
The
the cave."
He was roundly
lizard
that
616.
There
MOON
is
^J.
reviled
Man
in the
Moon.
Hare
in the
Moon.
See HARE.
Frog
in the
Moon.
See
no end of Moon
lore,
See GEKKAWO,
transmitted
237
God
but
of Marriage.
CHAN CHU.
from
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
with many additions and modifications, so that the Japanese moon, TSUKI,
The old man YUEH
enjoys the same legends as the Chinese moon YUEH.
WEI Ku
LAO,
who
silk,
becomes GEKKAWO.
to
save
also
told
people,
starving
that he
with red
of lovers
there,
feet
the
representation
of
YIN
the
grows on the moon till its leaves become blood red in the
autumn, and its foliage, of which the YiJ SIEX -fc fll] (Gioku sen) immortals
KATSURA.
It
have eaten, confers not only immortality but renders the body of the eater
man,
Eight of these
transparent.
entirely
Wu
KANG,
hew down
will
trees
their
grow
the
in
ever-growing boughs
The moon
divinity
is
the end of
a female one,
called Joga.
SUSAXO
is^
also related to
moon
CHAXCHU
(q.v.).
Poems
.The
are
Harvest
and
flowers
Moon
beans
is
also called
made
are
to
the
offerings
of
dumplings,
the
The
one
contains
theatrical
of
hundred
colour
Tsuki
prints,
episodes
which
occur
Hiyakushi,
by
published
moonlight
Japanese romance,
1886,
stories
This
illustrations
or
story
has
been
story,
in
238
six
volumes,
and
the
it
fairy
The
in
in
plays.
MOONCHILD,
617.
earliest
collection
with
an
exhaustive
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
commentary about 1830 by Tanaka Daishiu; it is but rarely found illustrated in popular prints, and only one netsuke representing it a modern,
has yet
indifferent piece, the identification of which was open to doubt
been seen by the author, notwithstanding a diligent search amongst
many
thousands of specimens.
An
district
old
was
and
called,
she
Moon).
the land.
of
the
of
all
over
hand, but she would give no decision before they had achieved several tasks,
for the
bring
tree
of
respectively
stone bowl of
the
precious jewels;
five-coloured stone
the
Morokoshi which
for
the
shell
the
in
lives
from China
silver
in
Sakyamuni
his
to
roots,
fruits
of
the blue
of
fire.
inaccessible
They were
objects of Teruko's
requests.
The
first
to
come, Ishizukuri, brought a bowl, dearly bought from a temple, but which
gave no radiance
in
the night.
assigned,
alas,
Iso,
man
the
only to see
it
whom
to
burn
the
in
the
third,
the
finding of the
Abe no
Miushi,
candle.
light
of
The
knight,
feasting after
There
remained but one, Prince Kuramochi, and he finally came bearing travelstained garments
of gold
and precious
stones,
which
he had caused to be made during the three years by clever Chinese jewellers.
B F. V.
Dickins, Japanese Texts, 1906, says N'ayotake
2 39
no Kaguyahime.
LEGEND
Teruko
scent,
and
but once at
looked
therefore
JAPANESE ART.
IN
it,
in the forecourt.
goldsmith, and his Chinese jewellers had followed the knight, claiming the
payment
of their labours.
of
daughters
to
this claim,
refused
to
of the
mother, JOGA, had been sent for twenty years on the earth, and that soon
she
would have
to return to the
Then seventy
moon.
life
and a poem
to be given to the
Emperor.
from
Heaven to fetch her from
appeared coming
of her sisters
in
Emperor the
the
elixir,
The
die.
old
screen,
man gave
to
caused the latter to be burnt on the summit of Mount Fuji, into the bowels
of
which
lie
TERUKO
618.
threw the
is
MORINAGA
against his
own
in
fl
Q.
who was
father,
military arrangements.
into captivity
and
generally called
1345,
elixir,
KAGUYA HIME
Son
Go DAIGO Tenno,
by Ashikaga TAKAUJI
accused
on the evidence
of
plotting
his
some
son to be thrown
and was
of
just
away
in
who
it
240
to Takauji.
KWANYU
(MS.r.)
(w.L.B.)
(ff.s.T.)
MOMOTARO
(C.//.A-.)
MANZAI <K.)
MOSO (H'.L.e.)
LOST CASH
(tt.S.T.)
LEGEND
619.
MORITSUNA.
620.
MOSO
ART.
JAPANESE
See SASAKI.
KOBU
or
jij-,
IN
Q jj.
of
filial virtue,
In
Weeping
over his misfortune that such a delicacy could not be got so early in the year,
bamboo
but he was as
much staggered
uncovered burst
as
feet,
This
frequently
story
is
emblematic
of
sentation,
when
delighted
fresh
disclosing
found
shoots
the place
had
of
unequalled
bamboo
The
illustrated.
of a
Another allusion
netsuke.
in
he
ground
grown
takes often
the story,
particularly
the
beauty.
shoot
alone,
more elaborate
is
repre-
a node of bamboo
Ml'FUKU
Mythical
JHc-
3!l
who have no
beings
MUH WANG.
See Boxu-O.
Fifth
King
of
belly,
and
See FOREIGNERS.
the
Chow
dynasty
China.
623.
MU
624.
MUKEIKOKU
according
JIMA.
the
to
Hairy Mermaid.
Todo
^p
f!H
Kummo
|lj.
Zue,
when they
only;
625.
period
of
After the
MUKO
SAMBAXKOKU
(Kie)
throne to
doubtful
-^
The Chinese
-fc.
King Ketsu
hundred
all,
holes
manage
dug
to exist
in
the earth,
on a
and,
diet of earth
sage,
Wu
KWANG, who
on
life.
stone.
lived
in
the
KA.
four
in
live
die,
of
human
his
years
later,
accuracy
he
in
is
and
dress,
the
drowned
reign of
shown
carried
Wu
of
(Tang),
to the river
himself.
Ti.
To
the
Ryosui
He reappeared
According
to.
a note
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Chinese legend,
of
to differentiate
him
carvings.
A
j^
Jjf?
similar
whom
tells
day
minister
unlucky
of his dress,
of the fifth
MURAI
simply
girdle,
month by
clad
defending
ffi
in
ffi.
himself
rival.
with
himself,
is
still
shown without
Warrior
armour or helmet,
hakama, with one long sword in his
and
with
single-handed
Hwai, Prince of
the calumnies of a
drowned
Yuan
kimono
his
K'ii
by
in
626.
but
bosom
B.C.
privy councillor of
Jg5 ^P"),
poem, the
P'ing
he had
After composing
stone in the
of suicide
(or K'ii
Kutsugen
by
T'su,
mode
bow
against
a surprise
7.).
^^
MURASAKI SHIKIBU
his
his
nR-
century (died 992), author, amongst other works, of the Genji A'lonogatari,
to
The Kogetsusho
Tenno.
amuse
the
Empress Jioto no
work forms
edition of this
nin,
wife
of
fifty-four volumes.
Ichigo
She
called
father
She
lost
was
and, according
violet,
to
the
dramatised
her mother
when
she
was but
and her
a son, hated Murasaki, and tried to get rid of her by foul means.
Although
still very young, Murasaki had achieved considerable fame as a singer, and
when twelve years old she was invited to the cherry-blossom festival in
the palace grounds,
to
Her
performance was so satisfactory that she was loaded with presents, whilst
* The
Japanese legend attached to the print reads
Murai and Kimura." This may refer to Nobunaga.
242
"
:
LEGEND
who had
her stepmother,
was singing
JAPANESE ART.
IN
She waited
herself.
for
girl
young brother, and offered her some sake which had been
Later,
drugged; but she mixed the cups, and killed her own boy instead.
to her
a flood of the
much
river
to
and then
Her
Terute
was
father
another
HIME
title of
name
recital of her
Murasaki Hime.
of
sent
poetess.
hence her
by the
Katoda, to
his
absence gave
Murasaki on the
kill
but Katoda,
knew
wife
the
vile
to
his
who
amongst the
many
years
Shikibu
is
her verses
represented
poets,
terrace
married
Murasaki
and
Nobutaka,
their
daughter
See
GEKKAWO.
wrote
the
novel,
MUSUBI NO KAMI
629.
NAGATOSHI
Daigo Tenno,
in
whom
to
j|
I*.
ft
(XA\VA).
jffl
he gave refuge
in
One
his castle of
Funanoye.
In 1333,
Oki.
Go
of the supporters of
and
their
hundred horsemen
after
seventeen
fray.
He then
to
efforts
were
Go Daigo
to
in
flee,
vain.
when Takauji
1336,
fights,
In
own
palace,
he reached
it
243
and helped
his
LEGEND
IN
JAPANESE
ART.
He
NAGARA KANJO.
When
is
in
the
pour a dipper
sheer
invocation are
sotoba
planted near
is
written
woman
by
the
to
peculiar
dies in child-
priests
upon a
placed
a custom
Flowing invocation;
woman
cloth,
it,
and
wooden dipper
is
sin
in
NAKAMITSU
and, like
MITSUXAKA
monks
it,
-fa.
(q.v.),
of Hiyeizan
f'|i
lord of
Tada,
instead of the
young
lord,
On
to fetch him.
Nakamitsu's
Buio
his son
to the
to study.
had sent
in Settsu,
it
to
found Bijio
Nakamitsu
son,
and
their return he
after
kill
to
him
two youths, Bijio escaped to the Hiyeizan and Koju died at his own father's
The Abbot of Hiyeizan reconciled Bijio to his father on the score
hands.
of the loyalty he
632.
had inspired
NAKAKUNI
to his retainer.
Noble
fty [|.
of the court of
Go
SIIIRAKAWA, usually
near Arashi
633.
Yama,
in
NAKAMARO.
See
of her
koto,
ABE NO NAKAMARO.
634.
NAKASENA SONJA
635.
NAKATSUKASA
^#
verse
rji
is
Jfa.
One
244
of
the
thirty-six
poets;
a lady,
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Uguisu no
Koe nakariseba
Yuki kienu
|o-;
Yamazato ikade
$ \
i
Haru wo shiramaji,
A*
was not
"If there
how
should they
spring, in the
636.
NAMAZU.
637.
NANA KOMACHI.
638.
NANA KUSA
know
that
See KOMACHI.
Aki
not
Nana Knsa,
no
is
on the ground."
late
up by a man in
first month as a charm
This custom remained
against diseases.
for a considerable number of years, and the herbs were called
Hani
it
partaken
food
as
the
Autumn,
in
vigour
0) -fc jfl
lespedeza (Hagi),
Eulalia (obana or
sitzuki),
name
glory, generic
of the countless
chajin.
B.
short
H. Chamberlain
century poet,
639.
the
poem
consisting mainly
in
his
Things
Japanese,
names
is
amongst
quoted by Professor
and attributed to an
eighth
Yamanoe no Okura.
NANGYO KOSHU
$f
YUAN
of these
Ti, died
1144
A.D.),
in
fl.
the usurpation of
OMO (nephew
built.
the
During
of
HAN
mountain KWA,
ascended to heaven on a cloud, leaving on top of the mountain her red shoes,
which were
lost
in
petrified.
her fate.
640.
NANZEN
pj
^.
Two
245
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
disputed as to the possession of a cat, which roamed freely from one to the
other, sublimely unconscious of the differences of creed
monks.
The
priest
momentous
affair,
borrowed a sword and, seizing the cat, prepared to act like Solomon with
the stolen child.
But the monks were obstinate, and neither giving way,
they each received one half of the unfortunate puss (Ehon Hokan).
641.
NARA.
Pillar.
in
which
their
bear
netsuke
^ 14-
the
similar
inscription
column
NARIHIRA
pictured as a
man
is
how
Jj|
exists in the
do
As a
is.
Bashira
Tempozan Temple.
It
is
rule
J^
depicted
ichiran (1838).
(ARIWARA
^p-
He
NO).
lived from
One
of
the
Rokkasen,
is
often
of great beauty,
Ono no KOMACHI.
the road
Nara Daibutsu
with
This
arms, wondering
is
a huge
is
netsuke,
the
in
Nw,
1i$
of the
the
In
He
is
Azuma, the last day of the fifth month, after his exile from
Court owing to some intrigue with the Empress, engaged in composing a
poem on the appearance of snow-bedecked Fujiyama, which he compares
to
iris
in
bloom, or composes his famous poem on the Tatsuta gawa, covered with the
red leaves of autumnal maples:
Chi hayaburu
Kami yo mo kikanu
Tatsuta gawa
Kara kurenai
ni
Even
in the
246
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Yamashiro.
NASU NO YOICHI
643.
fj
j(
crest,
in allusion
driven from
in
Yashima,
J^
to
MUXETAKA.
iff,
his
1185.
in
1182, the
where thirty pink fans, bearing the design of the sun disc
The head priest gave one to Antoku, saying that
(Hi no maru), were kept.
of ITSUKUMISHA,
it
1180),
Kami
of the
to
recoil
was accepted by one of his archers, Nasu no Yoichi, who on horseback rode
in the waves and with a well-directed arrow broke the rivet which held
the leaves together,
NEISEKI
644.
sent
the
The wagoner
him.
Chung
puzzled
great was
hostile
his
Duke
of
(see
Sung with
646.
NEW YEAR
groups
of
Kwan Chung,
ability that he
straw
to invite
hime
the
Duke HWAN,
left
is
embassy
to the
See CHARMS.
FESTIVAL.
part
difficult
satisfactory results.
as a love charm.
The main
the
He was overheard by
NEWT,
wound because
philosophy
accepted,
645.
blematic.
who found
stick.
philosopher
T'si,
living
reviling
who
Jg>.
afforded
fan.
is
are em(q.v.),
so
pendants
with
tufts
247
in
the
sequence
three,
five,
seven,
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
The shimenawa
recurring,
to
the
combination
called Shime
is
made
Offerings are
consist
They
of
cake
bitter
Urajird),
and a
Attached
pine.
oranges
The whole
cray-fish.
Kazan.
to the
rice
bamboo and
(Moromoki or
leaves
fern
also
are
rope
of
attached to
is
(Moc/ii),
dried
or
oranges,
(Kaya no
persimmons,
black peas
tane),
(Kuro mame), Iwashi, sardine, some herring roe (Kazunoko], a cray-fish, a Tai
fish, some dried cuttle-fish (Surmne), Mocliibana, or flowers made of rice and
some
straw, a daikon,
as
vary somewhat
pages
the
pun
with
the
localities,
For
EMBLEMS.
under
151-152;
on
of
because
Kobu,
and
their
The Sun
illustrations see
Fusoku
also
to
Yorokobn,
The
rejoice.
Vol.
|y|,
offerings
be
will
meaning
Gtva/io
seaweeds such
/.,
found
part
1,
SHICHIFUKUJIN.
During the month of January many festivals are held, the descriptions of
which are common. Amongst others, that held on the first day of the rabbit
is
because
interesting
the combination
of
of willow,
gilt
Maidama, intended
biki,
embodies.
it
the Fukii
emblems which
in the
Okame's masks,
Games
of
in,
to represent cocoons.
or "luck pulling," in
a bundle of gaily coloured ribbons in his hands, the other persons present
pulling the ends of the tapes to find whether they shall be lucky during the year.
NICHIREN H
647.
which bears
his
name
entered
complete
his
name.
means
her
3$-
Born
Sun
lotus,
Celebrated
in
1222, in
because
founder
Kominata,
his
knowledge
of
the
Buddhistic
248
of
mother
He
mysteries
in
Buddhist
the
sect
dreamt
received
modern
that
the
sun
by revelation a
historians
say
LEGEND
to
sought
ho
the
followed
he
that
ren ge
kio
Mamah Saddharma
(Sanskrit:
book
his
of
He
Gofukakusa Tenno.
so
of
at
the
years,
thirty
founded
the
prayers of
to
others,
He escaped
The help
1261.
in
He
Whilst
him
sent
exile
in
1264,
of
the
the
awaiting
fatal
composedly recited
his
broke in twain as
it
of
place
this
to
Mount
his
ashes
messenger to
whilst
called
time
to
Minobu
was
Yukiai
(place
Sado.
In
in
of
to
to
of
to tranquilise
and
was
Tokiyori
in
Ito,
renew
for
Idzu,
attacks
his
Koshigoye
to
be
executed.
tells
us
that
Nichiren
to
sword
the
Buddha,
instant
A beam
reprieve.
Hojo,
where
Kai,
of
flash
heavenly
on
his
he
came
after
his
after
women
The
death
to
in
river,
again exiled,
Kamakura,
Ikegami,
then
part
of
iron
teeth
in
ruled
eight
golden
of
the
compass
the west, she drank
points
the mountains of
appearance of
and
that she
explaining
back
side,
returned.
and
Nichiren was
meeting).
1273
long,
Hojo
to
only
legend
for
beg
state,
him
Kamakura.
at
reign
since then
but
Hojo's
the
Mongol invasion
that
invocation
his
"Glory
illuminated the place of execution, and the officer entrusted with the
light
had
and
beads
mio
of
the
stroke,
struck
lightning
beach
the
to
of
sects
under
the
against
Namu
Butsn by
is
Hokke-shu,
also wrote a
attacks
full
obliged,
which
law,"
and
doctrines
pundhavika Sutra)
the country),
was
the
sect,
the Jodo
Namu Amida
mantra
and studied
sect
Shingon
the ordinary
replace
JAPANESE ART.
IN
scales.
The name
of
Shichi
men
Daimyojin has been given to that snake through a confusion in the meaning
of Shichi men, and it is identified with Siva (Srimahadeva).
See the Nichiren
Shonin Ichidai dzue.
249
LEGEND
Our colour
of Tsukuhara,
[Il>
H+A
of
Mercy
KWAXXOX, meaning
KO
NI JIU SHI
649.
H+
t 7K 5? JE.
NIKKI DANJO
of Sendai,
could transform
himself
into
Matsumai
by
transformed
rat
been
popular
called
play
Sendaihagi,
has
NTNGYO.
waters, who
651.
island
body
shell
of
is
with
and
fish,
usually
listening
Tokugawa
in
with a
to
shells
the secrets
is
the
of
the
but
loins,
with
legs
in
and no
Taiyan
the
to
The
sea.
represented
usually
the
in
the
of
Dresser
around
subject,
attached
bust
seaweed
room.
dynasty.
(sold
the
in
the
this
inhabitants
human
steal
haliotis.
There
forelegs.
represented
on
written
Sort of mermaids,
H(-
are
the
to
on the spot,
himself
scampering out of
of
tried
and
he
but
Tetsunosuke,
Once he
rat.
as
followers of
Piety
650.
act
The twenty-eight
ft-
Stellar
Filial
B&
NI-JU-HACHI-SHIKU
Goddess
or
in
ftl
648.
the
illustration
"
M. |P
JAPANESE ART.
IN
of
collection
which had
covering perhaps
tail,
of
and carrying a
scythe-shaped knife in the right hand, are often met with as netsuke, the
left
hand carrying
But one type
horn,
with
Jingo Kogo,
large
who
to
of
old
netsuke,
protruding
very
abdomen
said
rudely
to
carved
represent
out
of
the
Empress
250
deer
LEGEND
NINNAJI
652.
of
Kenko
the priest
No
-{H i$]
(died
The
See SUKUMAMO.
KIOTO.
story
in the
full
1350).
653.
NIRAMI KURABE.
654.
NITTA NO SHIRO fc
See GAMES.
J&
I|$
&,
popularly
called
NITAN
of
^p temple
given in
is
JAPANESE ART.
IN
It
is
to
who
Nitta Yoshisada
he
plunged
This performance
attributed
and
Fuji,
much
lived
is
his
short
it
sword
sometimes erroneously
later.
during the same hunting party of Yoritomo that the Soga revenge
took place.
of
NITAN NO SHIRO was sent by the Emperor to try and kill the monsters
He entered a
Fujiyama, which noboby dared visit on their account.
who
of
to
light
their
led
the
leader,
engaged two
him
to
years'
Ashikaga
traitors,
who
1338,
His
could
enemy,
Narihiro,
safely
cross
Seeing himself
Ichiikawa,
between
his
656.
teeth.
his
At the
still
the cave.
M,
Takauji.
he
in
H ^
believe
ff
war, in
rebels,
Kwannon
a statue of
is
NITTA YOSHIOKI
655.
retainer,
Hatakayema Kunikiyo,
to despatch him
they
;
Kawasaki
the
lost,
swam
river,
but
Yoshioks committed
across with
his
sword
See YOSHIOKI.
NITTA YOSHISADA
ff
ffl
M-
Distinguished
Minamoto
palings of
Hojo family
at
Kamakura
in
1333.
through
the
koto,
the
and
LEGEND
once
at
poem
in
fell
JAPANESE ART.
IN
love,
sode no
Waga
&
Namida
Kage
,'
ni
yadoru
to dani
Shirade kumoi no
*;
Tsuki ya sumuran,
\
"
The
will
tears
wet
my
sleeve
shadow
the
the
of
moon
(Koto
no
naishi)
He married
her
and
Yoshioki
and Yoshimune.
On
twentieth
the
the
of
the sea
into
in
1333,
too
boisterous
to
cross
waves
the
and
after
of his wife,
the
would submit
leader
was
defeated.
the
At the ebb
besieging
the
town,
divinities
tide
of
he entered
wrote
to
him that
if
he
entreaties
He heard
wife
Nitta's
that Takatoki
had burnt
his castle
and
fled
to the
to
her
to
over to
propitiate
art.
was
after
he
Kamakura,
of
fall
to
the shogun
killed,
The uncle
in
represented
was
Takatoki
town.
the
month
fifth
ruins,
wrapping around
of
his
his
sword the
letter
of
Koto no Naishi, he
committed seppuku.
At Tenriu
Gawa,
in
Totomi,
the
bridge
in
jumped
the
into
river,
the
with
water,
his
groom.
or
was
Kamakura- -and
strong
broke
that
soldier,
he
purposely
Nitta's
horse
Kiuriu
threw
Sayemon,
the horse and
NANAKUSA (T.L.)
OKAME (M.I;.)
NITTA YOSHISADA
(II'.L.B.)
(a.e.)
NITTA YOSHISADA
(U'.L.K.)
(ll.S.T.)
(II'.L.B.)
LEGEND
IN
ART.
JAPANESE
Masashige
(q.v.).
Alternatively,
he
and
at
Miidera
Takauji, at
rebels
him.
an arrow
was taken
had
the
in
killed
where
battle
of
himself
were
Ashikaga
defeated
in
on
at
against
entirely
cut
Kchizen, by
the forehead,
this
ghastly trophy,
the
of
Fujisliima,
head.
to
was
odds
the
gone
leader
and
Kioto,
the
at
the
defeated
and forthwith
footsteps, but
his
in
only to meet with the same fate at the hands of his enemies.
the Hachiman
In
the
death.
Motome
NO
657.
GAK1"
See
Dances.
||.
fit
rain
like
in
storm,"
literature.
special
fumigating
seen
is
No
ten
Amongst
Dances, with
Aston's Japanese
literature)
and a work
Tateki,
NOBUTSURA
658.
in
volumes
by
Owada
1892).
| (CHOBEI xo
'fff
eight
:o
&Q^
Hasebe
HASEBE).
be
to
helped
disguised
castle
and
the
and
he
in
women's
dresses.
of
taken
Mochihito,
Nobutsura,
hiding
accompanied by
flight,
official
History
of the
Empire
fall
of
to
and
his
however,
men, but
his
the Shikken.
his
firm
both
Nobutsura,
came back
sword broke
He
refused
countenance
so
being
to
the
in twain,
to
betray
impressed
life.
2 53
says,
p.
LEGEND
NOMI NO SUKUNE if
659.
JAAPNESE ART.
IN
JE It
NORIKIYO
661.
NORITSUNE
Ura,
he tried to
over
eight
tried
to
at
and
after
kicked down.
but
him,
all
NUKE KUBI
he
One
KAMI).
at
(Has-So
was impeded
(q.v.).
in
the
Taira
Dan no
him by jumping
evaded
ninth
of
the battle of
Noritsune
Tobi).
his
size,
three
the
into
falling
Taking the
them,
662.
NO
$$ (Noxo
$fc
since,
(SATO HIOYE).
enormous
of
sea with
kill
boats
jump
wrestlers
^p
fff
KEHAYA
the boastful
killed
In
warriors.
ft $| t*
attempt
lyemura,
arms, he jumped
two
by
whom
he
into
the
being drowned.
"|{f.
the
body
NUMBERS.
663.
things,
individuals,
the
list
respectable
of
animals,
is
their
The Thousand
etc.,
into
numerical
classes,
and
numerical
categories could
the best
be extended to quite
known which
find their
place in art
cranes (Semba
Tsuru).
The Thousand
although
Among
length.
be mentioned
may
horses
of Oshu,
by
by
Matsura
Tametsugu.
The Thousand
carps,
the Eleven-faced
Kwannons.
monkeys
ko den (Shui
ch'uan).
Hiaku nin
poets.
horses,
etc.
354
Isshiu
and
the
corresponding
LEGEND
IN
Thirty-six
poets,
ART.
JAPANESE
road.
select
Six poets.
varies,
of
filial
is
piety,
the
list
which
of
of Japanese paragons.
list
the Eighteen
of
See Mayers'
Hassen.
2nd part, 252, and the Eight Sennins of the Chinese Taoists.
The Seven
sennins of Brahmanic
The Seven
lore.
in
tively,
long
may
art
Earthquake, flood,
life,
sales, onis,
fire,
Kid
are
they
sittra,
respec-
silk
money,
robes,
fine
houses.
The
Six
Tamagawa
The Five
or Jomi
boys'
chief festivals.
no Sekku, the
festival
Illustrations
rivers
(May
of
The Four
of the
Tanabata
different
dolls
;
festivals
Nanakusa
(March 3rd)
Hina Matsuri
Tango no Sekku,
Choyo no
Seku
grouped
together
(September
are
gth).
sometimes"
metal work.
sleepers.
The Seven
jth)
five
found, especially on
feast
(Roku Tamagawa).
Go Sekku, namely
in
the
herbs of the
of
Takarabune
New
week
Year's
festival
(Nana Kusa).
and
other
numerical
wisdom,
categories
of
the
zui.
Dragon, and
LEGEND
Many
of
lists
JAPANESE ART.
IN
See
The Four
beautiful plants:
Pine,
ing Plum.
The Three
Han
dynasty:
Chohi, Gentoku,
Kwanyu
(San Ketsii).
The Three
heroes of
The Three
finest
Ama
no Hashidate, and
Itsukushima.
Urashima,
Takenouchi,
Miura
and
no
Osuke.
The Three
664.
NUYE
See YORIMASA.
^|.
There
is
NO
NIOI
JIU
$|1
0)
NYO
3L
a so
appearance,
repulsive
(gate)
-\TI
of
the
temple doors;
duty
of
which
is
to
of the temple,
representation of
They
SAM A,
and green
the
guard
near.
Ni
They
mon
are
the
or the red
devils
the red devil, has an open mouth, as representing the Yo, or male principle
of Chinese philosophy;
and
represents
the
and
name
are
(Goshi nyorai)
is
designed
They
principle.
emblematic of strength.
that
or female
Yin,
Awo
is
are
also
equivalent
to
the
the
five
Buddhas
of
Sanskrit
Under
lips,
considered as
CHIUSH1NCUKA
THE JOURNEY TO SENKOKUJI
(Matt Garlmtt collection)
LEGEND
One
chewed paper
of
In
strength.
NYO by way
the
at
JAPANESE ART.
IN
is
of Binzuru.
667.
O BAKE GOTO.
668.
ODA NOBUNAGA*
See GAMES.
$$
no Shigemori
of Saito Hidetatsu
Son
Jt
jf
son,
He ended
Yoshitatsu).
Yoshimoto,
Lord
then
he
own
whom
when
Saito visited
Nobuhide,
said that
is
It
of
fine
in
fact,
would
happened under
his
of
the
Emperor Ogimachi ordered him to restore peace in the Empire, then fallen
into anarchy, and in 1564 he subjugated Mino, took Gifu as his residence,
and attacked Omi.
As there were many difficulties in attacking Sasaki
he
Shotei,
attached
to
Nagamasa, Tokugawa
himself
ran
In
left
Takeda
whom
Asai
Shingen,
he thought might
ties
family
leyasu,
who
by
was
received
Sh5gun Yoshiaki to
The
by Nobunaga.
Emperor with
invaded
by
the
title
Miyoshi
of
and
Danjochu.
In
Matsunaga,
but
they
whom
1569
were
driven
was
away
by
for the
promoted.
The Yamabushis
Nobunaga decided
9
of
Enryakuji
to abate
their
(Hieisan)
influence,
by most western
257
writers,
had become
boisterous,
and
here,
but
LEGEND
IN
ART.
JAPANESE
He then bethought
neighbouring Daimios they were too strong for him.
himself of using the Christian devotees, and built a temple, "Nambanji," for
three Portuguese Jesuits in
Japan
in
1547,
to
in
Kyoto
1571
the
to
three
their
ground
thousand
temples.
Shingen,
envious
of
Nobunaga,
Nobunaga.
latter
marked
This
The
him
the
to
Shogun,
who
Yoshiaki apologised;
slandered
the
fall
of
for
his
life,
Wakasa.
Ashikaga
In
Shogunate.
Nobunaga
1575
was promoted to
He also destroyed Asai Nagamasa and Asakura
the title of GON DAINAGOX.
Yoshikage in the north, Miyoshi and Matsunaga in Kawachi (1574).
In 1576 he was promoted to the Real Second Rank; in 1577 he defeated
Takeda Katsuyori,
destroyed
successor
of
Shingen, and
He
stayed in
own
his
not
resist
retainer,
He could
with the few guards at his disposal, and was stabbed by the spear
of an Akechi soldier
He was then
forty-nine
years old;
his
irritable
disposition
and severe
had estranged him from many of his men, and thus indirectly
The Emperor
caused his murder after he had conquered twenty provinces.
conferred upon him the title of Prime Minister and the second order of the
discipline
first
During
his enemies.
when
day
arm and,
of
his
It
the
life
is
said of Akechi
it
Nobunaga
by
arose one
latter,
striking
in
merry
it.
258
LEGEND
When
JAPANESE ART
IN
swam on
committed
and
after
fire
setting
to
his
palace
harakiri.
OEN
669.
his
who
Chinese
$!.
-F.
lived in the
his
670.
ETStJ SHO.
OGEI 3E
671.
Lao Tse
disciple of
of
who
He was
OGISHI 3E
the
originated
of his
youthful
673.
seen
in
Kaisho
sons,
caligraphist,
lived
of
style
followed
Hien,
OGURI HANGWAX
after
/J>
whose ruin
in
writing
his
Wang
now
steps,
Hi
Che,
A.D.,
and
generally
and
is
adopted.
perhaps
the
*g (KANEUJI).
he had to live
lj
Son of a rebellious
in
hiding.
He
is
table.
vicious stepmother
to
flee
finally
vassal of Ashikaga,
Go
He
rock.
(Shinsho)
Wang
Chinese
ne
writing on
usually depicted
on a
also
Mang-wa; was a
Taoism in the periods
Hokusai's
in
figured
heaven on a cloud.
to
672.
One
(Roshi),
and Shinno.
Fukiji
went
Semi in
15li-
cripple.
adventurous
In
life
is
set at
car,
LEGEND
Kazama
the pirate
IN
Hachiro, and he
JAPANESE ART.
is
in
Hearn,
his
paper
mounted on
often depicted
cliff
Daikoku mai
on
his horse,
(trans.
Asiatic
Society
Japan XXII/3/309), says that Oguri's birth was the result of prayer and
a miracle.
Terute was also of miraculous birth, and her father, Choja
drowned.
She
keeper.
menial
toil,
Once
heard of
until
times,
seventy-five
refused
to
She
the
was,
Nawoye, whose
girl was thus sold
of
of the robbers.
A
Stigen
A
of
und Marchen.
Inuma
Katsugoro,
The
Katsugoro.
the country to
leg in such a
in
better
father of
him,
known
this
little
dutiful revenge,
to
up
the
became a
nickname
ronin,
He met with an
under
way
that of HATSUHANA.
Hizari
(lame)
killed
by some enemy,
and
mountains, where she prayed under a waterfall for her husband's recovery.
woman
forfeited her
them
all,
OHO
life.
when he
with
feathery
investigated
chariot,
with
which
the heavens.
260
he
visited
every
fairy
land
and
LEGEND
675.
676.
OJIN
677.
OKADA
HI SAN.
fire
August
TENNO
^C
jjJj>
lady;
name
another
of
AMATERASU.
See HACHIMAX.
JH
A Ronin
|!J.
|J6J
JAPANESE ART.
IN
living in Akita
who was
inordinately
who were
life.
One
if
their
The
his
ronin
spoils
pyre,
his
own
when he went
Full of
daughters.
and burnt
their
bodies;
to collect
he
grief,
then he shaved
OKAME
679.
O KATSU
|SO
$3
(}: fr
&).
See UZU.ME.
Jj$p.
of
a ghastly story,
Near
the
waterfall
of
Yurei
Daki,
was
far
famed as a rendez-vous
venture near
it
after
nightfall;
for
in
talk,
by a wager,
faster
that
on her back,
all
the way.
O KIKU.
her
in
it
On unwrapping
off.
not,
Her
the baby
it
it
little
was
LEGEND
681.
KINA.
and forehead.
682.
Mask
of
JAPANESE ART.
IN
tufts of hair
on the cheeks
O KIO
IK
(MARUYAMA UH
l|l
Uj).
painter
who
lived
in
the
someone passing along the following day saw the drawing and wondered
at the accuracy with which the painter had limned a dead boar, much to
the astonishment of
who
KIO,
tightly
OKYO
685.
OMI HAKKEI
BIWA
J& if
bound with a
684.
3E
was
it
OKUZAWA SENSABURO
shown standing,
IL
to the place
where he
really dead.
fill
rope, but
Great robber;
11$.
still
in a
often
defiant posture.
See OSHIKIO.
Sennin.
jf
went
protested, but
The
il-
Lake
Ul
^C
^j
rain in
KARASAKI
sailing from
ffi
^
^M
^ $|
The wild
geese alighting at
AWAZU !H ^
KATADA
^ ffl
J^
Jifc,
||f ll^
YABASE
Bffi.
inro,
Hf!
^M
and sometimes
in the
form of
Yedo Osetsuyo.
There
is
686.
OMORI HIKOSHICHI.
See HIKOHICHI.
687.
ONI
for
in art
two
is
is
jU,.
quite a
horns,
Generic
common
sharp teeth,
name
devils,
the
representation
of
which
262
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
On
the
first
Oni
vaa
Soto,
Luck
Devils avaunt!
Toshi
houses with
the invocation
by the Caster-out
enter!
Otoke,
Oni
the
Yarai
or
Tsuina,
and
is
frequently
January they
wa
Fukii
of
This ceremony
either
a paper
called
is
in
its
full
details,
hiding under, or
any
in,
well, box,
hat,
basket,
A common
that
etc.,
or
roasted
dried,
away with
illustrated,
uchi:
Yaku Harai,
the
of devils,
and a box
shakiidjo
of
the box,
nearly bursts
it,
olden times an
In
caster-out
is
Shoki
often
beans give
The
or
itself
in the Imperial
the
(q.v.),
Okame and
general
palace against
demon-queller,
but
The
catching Fukurokujiu's
head.
bands
in
of
ceremonies;
monkhood, with
of the true
their horns
monks.
sawn
Priests are
off,
is
imitation of religious
in
shown sawing
off
better
and the
etc.
the
25th,
festivals
held
on
the
jrd,
for
ijth,
of the decease.
manner by working
En-no Shokaku).
yth,
temples,
or as
263
servants
to
holy
in
such a
men (Hakuhaku,
LEGEND
IN
JAPANESE ART.
which
oni
take a prominent
in
Amongst plays
Adachigahara, Momijigari
(see
see GHOSTS),
at
sea,
of
Yotsuya Kwaidan
Shrine at Tokyo), the Banshiu Sara-yashiki (based on the story of
Benkei
Monogatari),
Ao
the
the
Kazane,
(Oyiwa
Kiku:
D5joji.
the red
court
allusion
to
See NYORAI.
devils.
We
also
find
oni
dressed
as
in
ladies,
the
jealous
palace maid who voluntarily became a devil in the reign of Saga (820); as
master and servant, looking at themselves in mirrors, fighting with crabs,
with MOMOTARO
or recovering the
arm which
the latter
of
them; disguised
as
officiating
servant
to
(see
some sage
like
Hakuhaku, and
some
in
Kiogen
interludes.
is
mounted upon a
transformed into wings, somewhat
a brush; he
is
fish
in
dolphins of
the Bull-headed
of
Nagoya
Japanese Art,
fins
castle.
Vol.
3.
The
SHI
TENNO
upon
onis.
ONIGASHIMA
fa
y &.
The
ONIWAKA
fa
3.
Young demon.
264
See BENKEI.
See
MOMO-
LEGEND
690.
ONO NO KOMACHI.
691.
ONO NO TOFU
/h If it Jit
He had
See KOMACHI.
of the
the
in
represented
ART.
JAPANESE
He
Emperors Shujaku and Murakami.
costume of a noble and accompanied by a
and minister
894,
IN
tried
is
usually
from
frog,
of perseverance.
to
to
get
without success, and was just going to leave the palace in despair when
he noticed a little green frog trying to reach a leaf on' the sloping branches
The animal
weeping willow.
of a
tried
he had been favoured by the Gods with an object-lesson, and took courage.
last
964,
garnta,
A commoner
corner.
He
children's
of
has
version
school
not master
Hana
depicted on
is
he could
that
it
He
years old.
the frog,
one
in
caligraphy
and took
its
performance as an object-lesson.
OOKA
692.
pSj.
ECHIZEX NO KAMI
YOSIIIMUNE
acumen and
that
is
impartiality
It
shogun.
has
he
;t$ ^tj
TADASUKE was
'-if
as
is
judge
of
following
the
Aston's
Japanese
pipe,
which was
Literature,
amongst
had a golden
failed
period
strongly suspected.
He
his pipe.
was
pull
then
vegetable
stolen,
baby
her
which
the
to
the
locate
OKA watched
force
was
stolen,
thief,
the
which
A man
of
in
great
become famous.
civil
made
pickler
the
man
confess his
in
size
was
to
fill
guilt.
tub
of
Daikon;
once
it
to
One
of
by the arms,
as
if
to
thief
tear
her
265
another.
LEGEND
the
was the
true
A man
baby
she
that
cat
man and
his
the
in
free
let
until
wife,
against him.
itself
the suspected
Further
ORO
The
the case.
693.
cried,
mother.
Oka
except the
the
JAPANESE ART.
her lover.
of
IN
Sennin
3l ^.
when
his
the
came
man was
and
dress,
when
in,
it
questioned
him away
gave
guilt.
dwelt
lover
any one
of
in
One day while he was threshing wheat n sage came and made
him drunk with wine.
The wine vessel suddenly broke, and the wine
science.
formed a cloud
below
could
Those
sky.
is
depicted
OSHIKIO 3E
694.
named
SHIN,
shown
usually
T' Hfin
flute.
He was
dynasty (570
of
He was taken by
phoenix.
Mount
B.C.)
the son
Su,
and
after
thirty
of
the
playing the
fairy,
years
Slid
FUKYUKO,
he met
to
the
the
of
the
summit
of
the
tune
the
to
summit
riding
of
white
the
of
seventh
See
Chinese
governor
also
RISHIS.
He
under
of
is
the
identified
Chow
with OKYO
(WANG KIAO 3E
This
worthy
came
Hlf),
to
court on
the
first
day
the
Emperor,
travel.
dynasty.
who resolved
To that effect,
and he appeared
at
to find out
of
the governor
once
means
266
RAIUO
Kulo
collection)
LEGEND
watchers saw two ducks
from
fly
JAPANESE ART.
IN
west
the
he
before
just
On
arrived.
Okyo
is
must
secure
to
trying
noted
be
or
bird
big
some
|f
an
be
may
in
that
two ducks.
books
Okyo
and
of
this
Oshikio
legend.
are
It
described
separately.
695.
OSHIKURA
696.
OSHICHI
of
Kanda,
in
the
time
the
The daughter
of
vegetable-seller
who was
rebuilt,
See GAMES.
>
(YAOYA).
-fc
She then
temple of Kichijoji.
samurai,
was
in
fc
<
he
in
studying
that
fell
back
with
so
away
When
temple.
elder
in
him,
that
his
of a
and
about
father
sent
the
same
also
for
Yaoya, pining away without news of her lover, thought that the best
way to return to the temple, where she expected to meet Kichiza, was
to
set
fire
to
her father's
to
new
prison
place,
and did
her judges
tried
so.
to
She
was caught
red-
death by
passing her as under thirteen years of age, but an offering which she had
the temple,
in
burnt
alive.
697.
OSHITSU 3l
*i{-
the
RIP
original
VAN WINKLE.
old
asleep,
becoming
so,
Oshitsu
and
fell
food,
267
it
decayed, and
LEGEND
hear
and
met with
are
stories
he
that
M IS-
OSHIXJI 5E
698.
Chinese
in
the
to
Emperor
written on a crow's
able to decipher;
after
for
lore,
several
After
the reign of
of
Japan.
in
none
the
of
he
572,
sent
Yuan Chao
memorial
were
courtiers
Emperor's
won him a
of
Lu Wen.
Once,
which
wing,
that
similar
the
of
Several
centuries.
amongst them
friend
his
JAPANESE ART.
IN
The Nihongi
place at Court.
name
give his
and
kettle,
as
his
silk
skill
SHIN
Ni
(Ehon Kojidan),
OSHO
699.
3l lH
watching
an
umbrella
(Mangwa,
Vol.
3),
the
the
of
disciple
Mount TESA.
or
(Osiioirsu).
from
descending
seated on
great
CuoYO-Sosm,
travelling
in
OSHO
with
an umbrella (Shoshi
fairy,
As Choyo was
heaven
Li,
gwa
later,
Ryusen,
it
he
her
scroll
seated,
attached
OSHO was
den}.
retired
alone
umbrella
to
served
felt
O SHO KUN
CHAO KUN.
her.
and
jjj^,
or
KIUSIIO.
of
-ff.
She
was
3i Hg
of
The
^.
peerless
two carps
celebrated
Chinese
lady,
Wang
the
ears
the
of the
girl
One
Emperor forgot her very name.
and the minister had to flee to save himself
from death.
He went
to
the court of
the
Khan
of
Hiung-nu,
who,
on
seeing the true picture of the girl decided to invade China, and consented
268
LEGEND
to
retreat
when
only
the
IN
ART.
JAPANESE
lady
But
him.
to
the
girl
Sho
threw herself into the Amur, rather than cross the boundary.
Kun was
in the
be made of
harem
all the
of the
women
of his
so
seraglio,
the
to
is
effect
that
latter ordered
as
to
select
pictures to
one to be sent
Hiung nu. She was the only one to refuse a bribe to the court painter,
and as a consequence of the ugly picture he made of her she was selected
He found, however, when it was too late, that she was
by the Emperor.
to
woman
who flew
Mao-yen-sho,
common
702.
filial
life,
and
to
OSUI 3E
was
virtue.
in
:f|,
or
the court of
IGEX,
in his
nu.
Hiung
depicted before
much
tomb,
the
whilst
storm
twenty-four paragons
her
and
rages above,
of
of his harem,
OTA DOKWAN
^C
is
ffl
near."
(present
talking
to
girl
at
?1-
who
Founder
is
often
in
of
the
castle
represented
allusion
to
in
the
of
the
Yedo
rain
following
story:
Dokwan
got very angry, but he was reminded shortly afterwards that her
Nanaye ya ye
hitotsu
Nakizo kana
269
da
shiki.
ni
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
regret,
has
no seed."
The
pun
irrepressible
is
Japanese
peasants.
name
in
after he
had become
God
the temple of
of
War, said
Hachiman,
to
have been
Temmangu.
OTAFUKU
704.
From him
Fukagawa Tokio,
carved by
monk.
name
}:
Uzume.
H,
or
OTAFUKU MEN.
The
popular,
if
shrines
eleventh
more or
month,
good luck
gate of
It
called
less
of
of the
(rakes),
of
(Tokyo custom).
the Yoshiwara (near by) is thrown open.
705.
hi,
OTAIFU
"n
On
back
He
is
who, according to the Taoist books, had some ability to divine fortune, and
The presentment of this personage must
also a great taste for drinking.
not be confused with that of Urashima.
706.
*:
ft ^C
#11
lived
in
Yedo
the period
and
little
gave
all
The Yamabuki
is
2 79
(It'.L.B.)
OTA IJOKWAN
(.V.)
PILGRIMAGE TO ZEXKUJI
OSHOKUN
(ir.L.K.)
ONO NO
TOl'U (A.)
OSIIITSU (,!.)
,'V
LEGEND
She
a
story
IN
ART.
JAPANESE
has been reverenced ever since her death, and as a proof of the
piece of the drain
is
to
said
have
ZO.TOJI.
707.
to
who,
Sea
the
appease
God,
#}
jff.
had her
mats
fanciful
of
Yamato Dake,
version,
had
earlier
told
her
woman's
that
The episode
Yamato Dake,
place
Wife
sacrifice of his
Azuma
usual
is
to
wife,
iva
ya (O
my
from which
wife),
"Younger."
OWO
708.
IKO
^ ^
Strong
50.
woman who,
channel
which
by
his
fields
rice
it
were irrigated, so
having
grudge
as
divert
of
the
One day
and slipped
his
Kyoto
for
some great
could not move, and she carried him in that manner up to her house.
food, she gave
at
.first
him
cooked
balls of
Vol.
rice
As
After a
week
of such
treatment he was
easily (Ehon
Fuji bakama,
/.).
709.
OYEYAMA.
710.
P'AN FEI y$
Concubine
271
of
Ts'i,
in
and
which
LEGEND
he said that "golden
lilies
JAPANESE ART.
IN
in
grew
She'
lilies.
is
said to have
day the
this
women
Chinese
feet of
women,
lilies."
She composed the dances of the Dawn, of the Twilight, of the Waves, of
the Cherry Blossoms, and of the Chrysanthemums.
She killed herself in the
name
of FEI Jix,
711.
women
representing
The explanation
iron
Nabe
to
is
iron
to be found in a
custom once
women
were
they
lovers.
The
figures
it
afraid
upon
it
for
lest
steward
of
the
the overseer;
it
girl
her head,
ever.
her head,
it
are called
applies to a maiden
The
so great that
was
neighbouring
called
estate,
saw
On
with a
Hachi Katsugi.
fairy tale
her,
headgear
is,
old couple in
keep
^.
Kabitri.
single
set
away.
There
An
flies
dance.
the
at
prevalent
that
into
of this strange
agony was a
She was given the
visible,
her activity to
fell
and
in
love
finally
with
married
the
amongst other
712.
tales,
in the Ukiyo
PARAGONS OF
The Paragons
of
Gwafu,
Vol. 3,
FILIAL PIETY
-f-
3ji
(Ni
Jiu
SHI
Ko).
i.
*$&
^I^te^-i
\K3lE
a
^^
^i.i^/1"*
"iff/i?^
^ra
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y/-^M^
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LEGEND
in
many
Ni
jiu
Ko Zuye
ko
Giokuzan, the
of
(1822),
JAPANESE ART.
works, amongst
shi
IN
Mangwa
1.
TAISHUN (Shun).
2.
Moso
3.
KAN NO BUTI
4.
5.
6.
7.
OSHO
Ni
Jin
Shi
or Kirsiio
vShen).
(Wang
Siang).
9.
Kiosm (Kiang
Sin
1
)
11.
YOKO (Vang
12.
and
his wife
Iliang).
14.
15.
Sniujrsno (Chu
6.
his
(Wenti).
10.
Hokusai and
the
8.
i].
of
Hogen Shimboku,
in
or
no shi of
Show
Ch'ang).
17.
18.
19.
RIKUZOKT
20.
The
DKXSIIIX,
trio,
DKNKKI,
DF.XKO (T'ion
T'ien Kwang).
21-22.
The two
23.
GOMO
24.
KOTEIKEX
brothers, CIIOKO
(\\u Meng).
or
Kien).
21
and
22 respectively:
713.
Li).
filial
virtue,
CIIIUYU
but they
POETS
ffi
ftlj.
lists
of Thirty-six
LEGEND
famous
poets,
number
is
sentment
The
six
JAPANESE ART.
IN
met
with
frequently
some other
In
their pre-
sometimes
humorously treated.
are: Sojo Henjo, Ariwara no Narihira, Bunya no Yasuhide, Kisen
is
in
art,
Hoshi,
ROKKASEN, and
title
the
are
lists
Kuronushi.
Abe no Nakamaro,
The
of
Hiakku
Dickins
nin
there
illustrations
volume
the
of
lists
one
the
of
besides
(1775),
outside books,
it
(1789),
number
to
rare
is
thirty-six
other
of
find
one
works.
similar
representations
Hundred
the
of
more
of
in
one
However,
than
the
six
POETRY.
714.
The
POETRY, GAME
716.
PROVERBS.
From
Gods
three
HITOMARU, and
I).
of.
GAMES.
the latter are excerpted the following proverbs, which are occasionally
illustrated
HAXA
:-
\VA
SAKURA
xi
HITO
to
the
poem
composed
by
Satsuma
\VA BUSHI:
is
the
called
no
man
the flower
par excellence.
"The Flower
at
the
Kami TADANORI
Inn" (Ryoshuku no
(q.v.)
is
during
the
war
Okabe no Tadazumi,
but under the shadow
USHI
NI
is
HIKARETE
ZfiNKOJi
MAiRi
many cooks
Forced
so
many
pilgrimage
to
Zenkoji,
following an ox.
An
old
woman
274
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f-
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LEGEND
to
Zenkoji.
its
entangled
IN
clothes
of
horns
in
long
shrieks
ART.
JAPANESE
piece
to
cotton
only goaded
and an ox passing by
dry,
ran
away,
faster.
maddened,
him
to
it
She thus followed him right up to the door of the temple of Zenkoji, many
miles away, and thereafter became very bigoted.
NIN
SAN
YOREBA MONJU
NO
CHIE:
of
of
the
SAIZUCHI:
of a cat,"
hammer
artist
an
opportunity
show
to
Flies
on cooked
rice,
like flies
KOI
Jo Gi NO
NI
HEDATE NASHI
courtier,
paid his
to the lady,
homage
Many
In
love
whom
rats.
art subject,
in
are
no
distances.
fell
who showed
name Kioga
(comic)
the
there
no
in
common
Fushi
in
off,
as
(3
As,
love with
a
him through a
Empire (Griffis), and
herself to
or
though not an
his
cheap cookshops.
Givafu,
they have
associate
brothers.
NEKO NO
is
men
flutist,
Soga
three
If
priest,
blind.
tersely
vols.
1789)
illustrated
by
Utamaro.
NO SHAN.
717.
PUTAI
718.
RAGYO.
See
HOTEL
Kumano by
six
without landing.
to
275
(kesa),
and he spent
LEGEND
his days in
JAPANESE ART.
IN
which was
the waterfall
by Mongaku Shonin
the end of which a carvec
to be used later
image
before
him
the
in
and he
pool,
built
a shrine.
it
In
th<
man namec
saw
Shobutsu
RAIDEN
719.
or
1H,
f[f
KAMINARI SAMA.
face of a
drum
or
wheel
drum
it,
own
son,
God
represented
in
back
its
company
aerial haunts,
its
its
cloth
in
bag.
wit!
Th
generally humorous.
is
damages both
eatinj
Fallini
it
drums and
hence,
itself;
often
is
and carrying on
is
or the
from
He
drums.
of
foot,
th<
its
shown rubbing
is
it
may
It
body.
or holdin:
also have
tumblei
of his
Mis son,
latter.
life
as adopted son
people's
navels,
and
Several
being,
as
in
and
use
of
often
is
will
be
companior
to
tree
in
storms;
it
is
mosquito
net,
in
abhors.
fond
the
of
tree
times,
his
BIMBO.
latter
RAITARO,
huma:
th
their
enemies.
276
as
H X
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Raijin's
when he
shown
is
favour
in
of
Japan
often
is
depicted in
event,
in
this
the invaders.
In central Japan the
called
is
Ptarmigan
Raicho (thunder
bird) (Weston,
Japanese Alps).
Legend
SHOKUKO.
of
There
a story of a
is
man named
Shokuro, of the
village of Oinura,
his district,
upon a
hit
end of a
special plan
kite,
human
being fond of
which consisted
navels,
latter
human
attaching a
in
during a storm.
would he sure
navel to the
to
be caught.
The only
of
live
difficult
woman named O
the
whom
CIIIYO,
business
was how
itself
the
navel
the
woods
obtain
to
when he met
in
a ditch.
in
of
person.
her corpse
part
woman
in
the
ditch,
and came down upon her, when he was struck by her beauty, and taking
from his mouth a navel which he was chewing, he restored her to life,
married her, and took her with him into the sky.
Hence the saying which couples the name of Kaminari and O Chiyo.
Some days later Shokuro was on the war-path, hunting for the thunder,
and
let
Chiyo
recognised
her
regained her
herself
murderer,
own
receive a severe
male
him
heir
that he
in
fft,
his
ij|?
as
just
kite.
much
a rage, only to
who made
his peace
was
a. priest
of
in
1097.
ONJOJI,
In
recompense,
in
she then
with
Chiyo
village.
Shotoku Tenno
wanted only a
astonished;
RAIGO
to
by his
and he was
navel.
be caught
the
Emperor told
express, but
the priest
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
the
afraid
Emperor,
of
721.
who
is
RAIKO
credited
$jl
fft.
rats,
or
-fa,
which
MINAMOTO NO YORIMITSU.
that
said
Legendary warrior
as the daughter,
autumn
in the
RAIKO
when a
SHOKWA,
of
the
entrusted
her witli
herself
(q.v.),
to
and
be
the expedition
quest,
(q.v.),
whom
thanks to a maiden
in
the
mountains a heap of
and bones, the mangled remains of her parents and of the Ogre's last
meal. So pleased were RAIKO and his companions that their glee at having
at last found the whereabouts of the monster had the better of their
flesh
manners.
them
in
their
four retainers
albeit
disguise as
girl,
destroyed also
the devils of
the
After
which, RAIKO
OEYAMA, who
killed
and
his
human
his
henchman, WATANABE NO
TSUNA, were walking in the plain of RENDAI when they saw in the sky a huge
skull, with a red halo, floating amongst the clouds.
They followed the
278
KAIKO,
TUB
SI-IDEK UEVII.
SHINRA SABURO
(u:t..K
AM) ON1S
(ll.S.T.)
(/'../.,!/.)
HANDAKA SONJA
(M.T.)
LEGEND
direct
but
Raiko,
the
in
palace,
by a
surrounded
cave
JAPANESE ART.
not
could
first
IN
which
of
troop of ghosts,
he
Gakis and
two
with
waist,
breasts
fine
and
arms
like
As the
resplendent female.
in
warm
a net of
and
thrust right
latter
green cobwebs.
left
Bakemonos,
feet
came
near,
showing
felt
her
to the
carefully
itself
Raiko
disappeared
threads,
This figure
who
themselves
himself wrapped
was bewitched, he
whilst at the same
lie
net,
time a strange shriek was heard, and the point of his sword was broken.
In
the
of
front
was almost
filled
by a huge
in
spider,
trail
of
the warriors
three feet
found
the
high.
under
skulls,
of
different
WATANABE NO TSUNA.
of
in
This
forms
fine illustration
in
Raiko's
the
life
is
of
the
the
of
be
play
Hokusai's Givashiki.
death
of
the
robber,
KIDOMARU (Yasusuke, q.v.), who had sworn to kill Yorimitsu because, when
he was in prison, the latter had remarked upon the strength and evil
appearance of the robber, and advised his closer confinement but his advice
;
was not
followed,
The legend of
a number of which
722.
night.
in old Japanese works,
RAITARO
ft -&
||$.
The son
of the
Thunder God.
See RAIJIN
and BIMBO.
723.
RAKANS
being "deserving
JH ^|,
worship,"
or ARHATS.
implies
The
original
meaning
279
of the
human
word
passions,
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
is
applied
to
more particularly
to
whom
selected class, to
specially
Chinese Buddhism.
number
hundred
five
to sixteen, the
the generic
names
of
transmigration.
generally, but
Sakyamuni
however,
Eighteen,
name
is
which
INDAKA SOXJA.
HATSUNABASHI SOXJA.
DAKAHARITA SOXJA.
ASHITA SOXJA.
SOHIXDA SOXJA.
KARI SOXJA.
DAKORA
HOTTARA SOXJA.
SHIUBAKA SONJA.
or BIIADRA.
RIIAKORA SOXJA.
HAXDAKA
XAKASAIXA SOXJA.
CIIU'DAIIAXTAKA SOXJA.
tlieir
large
often
ears,
with ear-rings,
this
are,
SOXJA.
the
particularly applied in
HATTARA SOXJA,
form
artists
Japanese
them.
of
from
the exemption
and
SOXJA.
the
shoulder and leaving the other bare (for attributes, see under names), and
they are usually represented
precise identification
is
of
in
Ycdo
^leisho
7,ne
(Vol.
18),
gives
list
and some
RANK A
water from
his
RANHA,
of
Iff
it
blew
Seito,
it
to the south-west.
725.
LWAN
PA,
shown
squirting
On
was appointed Shosho in the Gokan dynasty.
the Emperor he was offered some wine, but instead of
and he
Sage,
mouth.
drinking
The Chinese
E.
RANSAIKWA
fire,
jg
for
an explanation
The
female
Sennin,
it.
LAN
TS'AI
Ho
a raised
(sometimes also said to be an old man), shown walking about with
The Taoist books say that RAXSAIKWA did
stick and with only one shoe.
280
LEGEND
know
not
wooden
winter,
blue
when
cotton,
inches wide,
three
girdle
his
or
even
JAPANESE ART.
IN
ornamented with
in the
During the
gems.
made
one
scantier
six
of
whilst
leaves,
the
during
scorching heat of
any money was given him he tied it witli a string and dragged
He was taken to Heaven by a stork. Some Chinese
the ground.
Guimet
Musee
the
strings
of
RASHIBO
727.
where a
aerial
Gento,
of
in
llic
or
A.'
Ciiii'UKi',
regions,
She
was a hermit
Chinese
is
said
to
$\\
amidst
Hodaikan,
elixir.
(Lm
-f-
of
visit
RESSHI
and a
carried
728.
cash
washing
Heaven.
along
figures in
!f|
if
three-legged toad.
726.
(Paris)
it
of
TSZE).
which he
him away
travels
the
in
on a rain-cloud, or appears
to
in
rain-shower.
RI-A ?
729.
begging
visit
in
Sage
of
Shoku,
who
him on Mount
tigers,
(frf.
Seijo,
my company?"
and broke
730.
The most
He thereupon threw
"What do you
fear of tigers
when
it.
RIHAKU
(Li
PEH), or RITAIHAKU
(Li
TAI PEH).
LEGEND
so
itself
the
that
early
of
Ho CHE CHANG,
courtier,
in disguise,
Peh
Tai
planet
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Hence
(Venus).
his
to be
an incarnation
amongst the
representation
upon a
The
jar,
latter state
when
once,
his favourite
gave orders to
of the
in the
KAO
counsellor,
Li
drunken poet.
gave his enemy the Empress, the occasion to have him
satirical verse
He did
contemplating.
wanderings led to
not,
of LUH,
however,
his admirative
which he
abstain
deatli
is
poems upon
sometimes shown
RITAIIIAKU,
A.D.),
but
it
summoned
Some
he was drowned one day that he tried to walk along a river drunk.
years after he
the
green
mist on
the sea,
his
a red dragon,
playmate being a
other
to
fairy.
The
trio
Although history
whilst in the
flesh,
heavenwards.
He
731.
he
is
RIHAPPIAKU
^ A
tl,
Ri PA PEH.
The Chinese
Li
Chen
Shoku, who lived through the three dynasties of Ka, In, and
His name is a pun and means that
Shyu to eight hundred years of age.
After compounding an elixir in
he could travel eight hundred Li per day.
jflL,
of
the caves of
732.
RIKO
733.
RIKUZOKU
piety of Chinese
J|f.
|^?
Archer.
H| (LuH
tradition.
When
to his birthplace,
Shokuchu.
See STONES.
SO), also called CHISHO.
Paragon
of filial
LEGEND
the house of a rich
invited to
oranges.
the dress
he had secreted
Hwo
whose
CHING,
^tl
ffi.
R IX
or
$j|.
K\VA
his
to her.
SEI.
He
the
by
grave.
Rinnasei
the
of
love
Ono no Tofu
as
way
the
to
^ HI
with
identical
plum
RIN
and
tree.
Chinese
the
Yu,
pensioned
own
allusion
the
them
burnt
or
be
to
appears
of eating
verses
is
the
Emperor
is
plum
tree,
in
represented
common
to
in
both,
Kummosiie
Morikuni's
same
the
Taisei,
with
RINREISO
blew
coloured
which
out
clouds
were
twelve
the
of
they
LIXG
Lix
fft
were
reign
One day
dynasty.
Reiso
the
in
Taikan,
^ ft
There
it
Rinnasei
of oranges,
it
RINNASEI
734.
neighbour,
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Sr.
celebrated
Emperor
of
water
magicians
in
the period
the So
which
was
a
containing a
golden
dragon,
found
crying
and jumping
afterwards
blowing creatures
made a competitive
mouthful
sage
transformed
lion,
in
into
and sacred
front
of
and
five
cranes,
a shrine.
becoming an adept
of the Taoist school, tried to destroy Buddhism, and led the Emperor
He is numbered among the
into the practice of Taoism and magic.
Rinreiso,
after
usually
RIOTOSHIN
shown
in
5.
The
Rishi
Lu YEX,
1120 A.D.
or
Lii
TUNG PING,
He slays the
dragon which pestered the lands of Chiang Huai, or crosses a river upon the
magical sword with which for some four hundred years he destroyed the
283
LEGEND
IN
ART.
JAPANESE
He
in
and
the
in
is
said to
work assigned
RISHIS
737.
^ ^
Sennin (UKAIKA
name
Generic
word).
man through
of
Buddhistic
YA.MAIIITO
or
Immortals
of
are
rarely
who have
in Japanese,
which endowed
of
NUNG; and
J\_,
fllj
to him.
them
with
and
origin,
are
Chinese
the
by
They
however,
are,
into
five
classes,
diversely
whom
upon
consumption
The
third
the only
the immortality
of
some
life
affected
human
transformed
at
as
written,
present
beings,
with
the
hosts
trees.
is
the
in
however
is,
the
meaning
mountain
fastnesses
and
day,
present
of
with
carries
mankind
of
spent
imagination of the
mythical
or
Rishi's,
of
of the leaves of
Nara
class,
and transparency
it
peopled
genii,
immortal
well
illustrated
and
animals,
in
the
by
netsuke
./
in
the
author's possession
Under
shadow
the
is
of
written
the pine
the Chinese
and
the
poem meaning
plum
how
tree,
sleeping
on
is
no
The number
fill
are
is
SHORIKEN (Chung
-
In
li
kuan).
is
written in full
284
<jj^
J|i
j'J|!
(or
is
BAIFUKU
CHOKVVARO
SOXKO
CH1NNAN
INKI
ROKO
TAIHO
GIOKUSH1SHO
UIOSIIIKWA
SIIOSHI
TEIREI
BUSHISHI
RIHAPPIAKU
OGEI
SANFUSHI
SONTO
RESSHI
KOHAKU
RINNASEI
^,A^fA
*1
KAKUDAITSU
SHAEN
TOBOSAKU
OGEI
MAKO
FUK1UHAKO
KOSHOHEI
BASEISHI
TEKKAI
HAKUSEKISHO
CHOSANCHU
SAJI
SHORIKEN
HIOCHO
OSHO
LEGEND
in
ART.
JAPANESE
TEKKAI
RAXSAIKWA (Lan
They
IN
tsai
KASKXKO (Ho
Ho).
but,
tsze).
sien ku).
art,
kin).
give
way
the
fairies,
HOKEX
More than
and Japanese
KOREUIX,
ZEXSIII,
described
are
fifty
prints in
the British
KOSIIOIIKI,
TOBOSAKU,
Anderson's
in
Museum, and
of
Culalo^nc
a
like
BASHIKO.
SIIIYEI,
the
number
Chinese
distributed
and
priceless,
and
Sennins,
more
fill
As
few.
nctsnkc,
then
hosts
of
in
almost
exasperating
book
illustrated
more or
with
often
less
wholesale
manufacture
in
defy
indentification,
their
attributes,
the old
owing
to
the
of
also
multiplicity
illustrated
and
pieces,
rare
stereotyped
in
Sennin
now
of the
general
numbers,
of
the productions,
of
of
Sennins,
ivory
any
most
five
character contains a
and
amongst the
etc.,
of
all
It
types.
seems as
likelihood,
netsuke
if
expression,
had
if
most
taken
one
may judge
Many of these
of
embodied
in
and
loins,
Sages are usually in Chinese dress pure and simple, and the leaf coat appears
staff,
285
is
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
also
the
emblems and
be found by reference
will
fairly
Wakan
sanzai
Gather
from
Dzuye*
a
the efficacy of
chrysanthemum
in
chapter
on
the
to
the
for
left
and
stem
remaining
root
which
the
obviously overrated:
in the sixth,
Dog
of
the
and
the shade;
is
use of later
Kan Ko and
the
list
attributes.
complete
Dry separately
Make
momme
of the
grammes)
(four
powder, and take daily three times, each dose being divided into seven parts
the size of a small seed.
grown; and
after five
years
become
will
new
lighter,
years'
feel
two
body
fair,
man
and he
Other
preparations
An
concoct.
old
seeds, such as
is
seem to have
man was
been
efficacious
though
simpler
made
to
of sesame
fly
and
in
food
to
(Akusen).
Such
elixir
vita?
were
its
called
elixir
Tan,
of
Kin
or
nine
Tan,
revolutions
of that
substance.
elixir resulted in
" Section VII
.A
fjijf.
We
are
when
mankind
(p.
286
name
is
written
^*
.A^-
CMOHEI
it
<K&S:
,
^a
*4 1
wfr >i$.
W\^K ffldi
y.xW^rH'
jnfb% KOSENKO
-fel
2.."
SEN X INS
From
San
LEGEND
the
who
to
ART.
JAPANESE
holy
In
drug.
IN
he and
died;
brother
his
followed
suit;
was going
brother and the
brother
third
first
dog.
Five or eight
phoenix
usually
mortals.
took them
Although
up
such
of
periods
the
of
vita1
elixir
amongst those
life
cloud,
away from
the sky
to
common span
were a
centuries
or
dragon,
of
common
the gaze of
was,
or
course,
illusory,
may perhaps
alchemists
the
upon
of the
Recherche
elusive
de
I'Absoln,
of the
European
and from
whose
SENNIX
mention
Besides
(female).
eight
male
the
female Immortals:
Kyuei,
some
Taoist
books
Hanmo, Sonkohi,
Chojo,
Oshito
Immortals,
long Hosso), and Ryujo, and the Ressen dzu san contains yet a larger number,
There
is
disciples of
selves
in
on a
Seijo
(q.q.v.).
Lao
deer,
Tsze, were
the Eastern
earthquake-subduing
Sea.
effect that
seven
men and
they went to
seven
women,
amuse them-
staff
Returning
open the gates of Hell to liberate the souls.
on shore, the Sennins upset some mountains and flung them in the sea; the
dress
of
one of them touched the water, and the waves retreated, leaving
dry,
when
the
RITAIHAKU.
See RIHAKU.
287
of
his spoils,
things by
LEGEND
739.
RIU
740.
RIU O KIO.
741.
742.
RIUJIN
See RIUJIN.
31, or
jf|
See GENTOKU.
RIU 6.
dragon coiled on
the
Gu
who
the Sea,
of
He
Jo castle.
is
usually
the shape of a very old man, with long beard, and with a
in
represented
hand
See DRAGONS.
f|.
in
lives
JAPANESE ART.
IN
head or back.
his
tide-ruling
Hohodemi, and
gems,
such
His countenance
as
and Takeno
of Ojin
in
I'chi.
the
is
illustrations
Fond
he carries in
fierce;
of
the stories of
daughter;
name
of
later
Tawara Toda.
To
it
to the upper
his castle
Urashima Taro
in the
world
is
reflected
air.
Riujin easily takes offence, and to his anger are due the boisterous seas,
appeased by the
of
sacrifice
or Tsurayuki's mirror.
Tachibana Hime or
See also
according to Chamberlain.
(AiR CASTLE,
it
In
q.v.).
with sea
shells
or
with,
are
Chinese
FISH.
Riujin's
in
sword
of Nitta Yoshisada's
style,
scales
The
represented,
one with
an
octopus
as
743.
RIUTO.
being
too
on the snow.
744.
Ehon Hokan
ROCHISHIN
calls
|?
poor to
by the reflection
him SONKO Jj^ J||.
$.
KA OSHO
288
procure
oil
or
of the moonlight
ROCHISHIN.
One
of
the
RIUJIN's
ATTENDANT
(A.}
KOKKASICN
ROSIII
KIKO
KIUTO
(<;.//..v.)
(.!/.,;/.)
(.-I.)
RIOJIN'S
ATTENDANT
(H.S.r.)
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
He is shown in
hundred and eight heroes of the Chinese novel, Suikoden.
Hokusai's Ehon Suikoden as a muscular hairy individual, with a partly-shaved
Beside him is a staff with a
head and a loincloth as his only garment.
he
forked top;
body
of a
neck.
on a bamboo-work
sitting
whom
kicking personage,
Kyogwa Zukushi
In the
and bearded
priest flies
is
figure, lying
in the
away
of Kuniyoshi, he stands
Two
background.
table,
his
unruly
scruff
of
the
on a strong, muscular
Buddhist
staves, whilst a
life.
away
to
some other
some sixty pounds, he then became the head of a troop of robbers, his
care was to sack the monastery whence he had been expelled, and
first
which he made the headquarters of
another band of brigands.
He
is
nickname,
Ka
Osho.
He
also
is
Later, he
and
recognised by,
easily
his band.
tattoed,
shown
and
fighting
to
show
the five
which he owes
another brigand
who
had eight dragons tattoed on his body and is called Kiumon Riu Shishin,
or standing upon the head of a Nyo which he has broken, or uprooting
a large
tree.
ROBEN
745.
and founder
his
jj
^.
him away
clothes
He
RODOSHO g
upon the
to direct him.
tree,
to the temple
carried
Priest;
river
He
is
when an
years old
him and
priest of which,
died in 773.
^,
Woga and
^ f ter
he
mastered
Taoism,
threw
his
LEGEND
ROGIOKU
747.
ROHAN
748.
Rohan
Chilia
Shimbnn,
is
stone bridge on
built
of
side
the
castle of Chotan.
ijj|
rishi,
$.
-R.
woman
as a richly dressed
JAPANESE ART.
IN
up
to
the
of
sides
is
whole structure
who was
Rohan,
this
"Though
shouting:
it,
lurking
under
the bridge,
tremble as
will
by Rohan's
fingers
And
it.
upon
for
was not
feet of the
the stone.
Vol.
749.
ROKKASEN
750.
ROKO
In
3).
JH
Ufa
The
fllj.
six
See POETS.
poets.
ffi.
Ehon Hokan,
it
is
that
"he
lived
upon a
Den,
tortoise
II.,
three
says that
33,
feet
long.
with KOAN
identical
is
(q.v.),
years.
Kan no
He disappeared
751.
divinities:
Go
Four
/^ t$
guardians
Jfc.
of
the
Generic
Heaven
290
him and
of
called
a waterfall;
him
for
to
and the
Wu
Ti.
name
of
Emperor
Bonten.
call
the flow
sen shin
ROKUBUTEN
The
of the
to
Buti heard of
(Shi
the six
Tenno),
Buddhistic
Taishaku,
and
LEGEND
ROKUROKUBI
752.
shown
IN
|||
It-
Long-necked
See BAKEMONO.
the country
could wander at
that
entirely
753.
is
did
not
the
of
belief
TEOU
One day
ff|
ROKUSUKE
man who
by a number
round
all
their
in the
in
Wakan
China or
in
actual
the
monsters
lived
in
dzue
Sansai
in
their
neck;
of
Kingdom
existence
for at
says
Hearn,
Japan.
Rokurokubi
of
|Jj,
of
Keyamura
captured a Kappa.
In
^^
^t,
prints
he
retainer
is
night.
such
that
however,
had
not
camp
ffi.
Shimadzu
all his
opponents.
Taiko,
ROKYO
of
seen surrounded
of these creatures.
bouts,
who
(Hitoban),
the caverns of
the
of
like
ff|
gff
a strong
754.
occasionally
these
reptiles
either
exist
goblin,
Some
night.
FEI
mark appears
In the time of
In,
is
^ ^ ^.
Tatupouo
ART.
JAPANESE
magic, after
for
Riozai}.
755.
RONIN
ff|
A.-
to
through the death of their master or some other untoward occurrence, such
as
a serious
like outcasts.
nor
worldly
offence,
had become
"
disattached,"
and
except
their
291
trusty
led
a wandering
life
swords,
but
they
played
LEGEND
considerable role
in
The word
fiction.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
is
picturesque, inasmuch as
it
in
describes
the
"wave man"
and
fro
CHIUSHINGURA
fa
The
$i|.
known;
it
and
its
of
story
Asano, or The
of
sets of prints
celebrated
FORTY-SEVEN
the
Loyal
League,
well
is
Amongst
OGAWA
in
Old
illustrations
by
in
(q.q.v.).
The
is
as follows:
to the Shogun.
(MORONAO in the play), so persistently insulted him that he had to draw his
sword in the palace. Such an offence was punishable with death, and he was
therefore
and
succeeded
ronins,
in
His principal
1701.
forty-six
of
his
retainer
companions
thus
KOTSUKE xo SUKE,
slaying
harakiri (1706).
mark
April,
counsellor,
becoming
in
Their
graves
in
the
after
which
all
they
committed
receive
cemetery of Sengakuji
every
As a simple
illustration of Chiushingura,
murderer of Yoichibei,
is
commonly
dilapidated umbrella.
Ronins adopting as
they
the
teachings were,
under the
became adepts
Chiushingura and
all
on
flute,
less
recognisable
Tokugawa
con-
consequence,
scenes,
is
In
arrest.
rule,
the
in
ronin
lieu of
beggar,
headgear,
LEGEND
two
ART.
JAPANESE
IN*
him
front allowing
full
view of
his surroundings
was
similar headgear
worn by
also
details
illustrated record
of
the customs
in
an exhaustive and
Fuzokusht, of which
of
fully
made
in
any European
language.
LAI
RORAISHI
756.
when seventy
who,
TSZE,
np.
5$r
of
years
still
age,
of
filial
dressed
like
virtue,
LAO
a baby in
"clothes of five colours" to amuse his parents, and played like a child with
same idea
the
in
in view.
classical
occurrence,
slip,
the
ROSEI
Emperor
of
who, hearing
China was
in
the
higher
On
classes.
his complaints,
the
way
he
that
He heard
that
set
kept
lack of protectors.
in
the
grumbling at
his
Lu Kung,
Rishi
the
properties.
glee.
Identified
/{{.
is
full of
with
depicted,
to the capital
company of
poverty and
J|t
a basin
frequently
the
in
evening,
upon the
whilst
He
pillow.
asleep,
and
in
honours;
in another,
took such a fancy to him during his administration that he gave him one of
his daughters in marriage, that
his
little
three
son,
years
of
and,
finding
rishi's
of
all
that
his
millet
His
cries startled
was not
yet
ready,
him
he
fell
so that he awoke,
understood
that
the
pillow had given him the dream as a warning of the transitory nature
earthly
possessions,
and instead
of
retire in meditation.
way
he
LEGEND
Still
position.
in
found
for
He
bath.
his
that
to
carries
dream
a
his
The conclusion
is
is
procession of retainers
^
^ ^
ROSHI
Prince
to
coming
Mangwa
fetch
on a pillow or a small
J-.
him eighty-one
^f-
The ancient
(LAO TSZE).
(LAO
KUN),
He had
years
table,
founder
of
Taoist
the
star,
system
left
side
in
his ears,
It
of
and carried
ridge to his nose, ten toes on each foot, and ten lines in each hand;
over,
court
and sometimes
in
1321.
shown
is
him with a
B.C.
he
See DREAMS.
a fan.
758.
makes him
his sleep.
In netstike he reclines
palanquin.
in character,
the
of
dreaming
more Japanese
is
then awoke,
JAPANESE ART.
the powerful
rid of him,
alive
IN
is
of
enormous
size,
more-
He
is
usually
shown
as
Tasters, in
759.
RYOSHO Q
Emperor Chu,
of the
faf
En
in
one brook
of
which he went
Three Wine
Confucius.
was a man
to be found in the
Kishyu who,
in
fished
is
At length he caught a
294
carp,
in
He
this
the stomach
ROCHISHIN
SAIGYO
ROCHISHIN
(./.)
(ir.L.S.)
(<4.)
ROHAN (//'./...)
KOKUSENFU R1KI
(
ROKO
RYUJO
(//'./...)
MATANO NO GORO
(7.A'.C.)
LEGEND
RYUAN
760.
vH
If]
~F.i
(Liu NGAN)
IflJ
who became
immortal, and
dog and
His
known
King HWAINAN
Hwai Nan Tsze. He was
as
the
daylight.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
his
the art of
after
cock,
he
licked
departed,
the kettle
in
which had been the magic broth, and followed him in the clouds (Ressen
Den, II.}.
History however says that, ruined by his magic practices, he
became a
traitor,
exiled,
and committed
761.
of
was
suicide.
jff;
Hfc
were friends
in the period
Genwa,
Fujin.
but for
wood-cutter with a bundle on his back, and comforted him with food and
wine,
when upon
They recognised
precious
who
She
is
RYU-JO
shown
man
her
disguise,
Nammei
of
to
763.
rides
RYU-KO
Ryuko and
with
with a
fairy,
in her hair"
and found
When
truth.
a wild goose.
flj
and
ij
_|:
she
was "old
Sometimes she
Fujin
RYUAXJO
way
Taikyoku,
of
flj
have a pin
to
fairy
in
it.
enough
the
characters
the
is
he was
that
pot.
Fukiuhaku,
his
See
his wife,
Wakan Meigwa
HAN-FUJIN
$fc
Yen,
as she
was on
to the clouds.
III.,
9.
^ \.
his wife
decided to ascend to
fly after
(jo
ten
feet),
The
Ryuko (Hakuban fj ^)
wife, Han Fujin, he studied
295
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
He was a good
kind to
governor,
the
poor,
and
his
politician
and
merit
basket, which
went
and an
otter
to the Shimeizan,
of
full
it,
water,
came out
but
and
trial of
fishes
so
Han
appeared, but
tigers.
successful
Fujin
The couple
Ryuko made
them lay still, but his wife again did better, compelling the brutes to fawn
around her ankles: she bound them together with ropes and made a bed of
their bodies.
had merely
Ryuko
her husband.
Emperor Gio
province.
(IV., 8):
to
destroy
whom
His wife
easily confused
last
left
than
in the
which
monster
he had
Fujin
swiftly
A man named
a
Han
her husband
and she found near her pillow a box of pills; she took one, and was at once
wafted aloft; her husband took one of the remaining pills, and followed her.
Both went through the clouds to the Palace
764.
RYUSHIN
but
first
flj
J| and GENKEI
Kwan
way
(gin
Moon.
JH Yuan Chow)
lost their
in the
Mount
lived
Han Ming
in
the
Ti.
In
to death
but for a peach tree which suddenly grew at the summit, and was then
covered with
directed
seeds.
them
fruit.
They stayed
to a cave in
for
sisters,
its
who
older.
them on hemp
LEGEND
IN
ART.
JAPANESE
^^
&
SAGINOIKE j&
fa HEIKURO
g|$ MASATORA
farmer who was adopted by Saginoike Kuroemon because
765.
was a
herculean
He
strength.
his
tried
standing
strength
waterfall,
fit
of
his
in
upright
high
of deer-horn
766.
also
Tawara Toda
Yoritomo.
In
dynasty thus:
thus
west,"
one
of
"The
poems he expresses
paradise
expressing
more importance
his
is
in
the south;
his
devotion
the
to
ruling
his
respect
the
for
Gokuraku wa
Minami
ni aru
wo
Shirazu shite
Xishi
Oroka
He renounced
become a
all
narikeri.
his dignities
in
1137,
at
to
travelling priest.*
he started on his
year),
wo ogamu wa
in
contemplation of Fuji in
for
of
his staff.
This
is
called
the Saigio
Saigio
to
is
go on the
poem
often
first
ni
mountain with a
little
man
and
is
at the foot of
first
to
found
in
it.
travelling priest
door,
reciting
the
According to the plot of the Saigyo Monogatari (1677), which gives his name as Sato Narikiyo, he
upon the Emperor, who, seeing a cock scattering the flowers of a plum tree with its
wings, ordered Sato to drive away the bird. An unlucky stroke of the fan killed the bird, and the courtier, deeply
grieved, went home, when he heard that his wife had dreamt that she was a bird and that Sato had struck her.
This strange coincidence, coupled with his ardent Buddhism, led him to become a wandering monk.
The.
remainder of the play is full of fiction, and terminates with the apotheosis of Saigyo 's daughter.
was once
in attendance
297
LEGEND
H
IN
Kado matsu wa
Meido no tabi no
JAPANESE ART.
Ichi
*,
ri
zuka
Medetaku
"
mo
ari
mo
Medetaku
a*.
nashi.
"In our dark journey through this earth the Kadomatsu are the Ichirizuka
of the road (a small
there
Congratulations
after
each
tree,
year,
erected every
Ri on the
and congratulations
roads).
there
are
? >
not.
This occurrence has served as theme for jocular poems and illustrations,
but
true
the
author
of
the
poem
is
apparently
IKKIU,
who
lived
some
centuries later.
Pond
of the
Flying Woodcock.
When
Kamakura, Saigyo
was invited to the Palace by the Shogun, Yoritomo, who asked him to
recite some of his famous poems, and beseeched him to communicate some
books on Archery which he had received from
of the
back
travelling through
as far
ancestors,
the celebrated
as
his
Saigyo,
how-
Shogun's wishes, he agreed to talk the whole night with Yoritomo, and a
down
number
of writers took
he
in
left
the
way.
the
first
morning, the
Palace he gave
his
his
This
it
to
episode
is
frequently depicted.
Saigyo died
in
and went
Kyoto,
in
SAIJOSEN
One day an old man
767.
pair of phoenix.
^C
fll]
was a
upon her
She did so, and as the old man looked at the
called
finished
work he suddenly closed his eyes and pointed at the birds with his finger.
They became alive, and the girl and the old man mounted upon them and
disappeared in the sky (Ressen dzu San; Ressen Den}.
298
KHI'KIKVK
O].'
(Matt
LEGEND
SAIJUN
768.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
The Paragon
)ljj|.
-a
basket
full of mulberries,
war with
WANG
leg of
One
SHUN.
he was caught by a
band
the
of rebels then at
rest.
SAIKEI
769.
He
is
easily
|pj Jf|
heaven on a cloud,
(reviver),
One
SAISHI -^ j.
770.
woman
an ox to carry home.
Ts'ui SHE.
of the
Paragons of
many
filial
virtue, the
Chinese
and could
own
breasts.
SAIWO
H?
Hf.
Chinese
peasant
thrown
far afield
him back
one day,
his love.
ill
and
by,
sore
leg
to his
The Chinese
story,
fate.
SAIYUKI !J
772.
SIYUKI,
the
of
Bakin and
(q.v.),
by
illustrated
it,
an episode
in
Mac
773.
jgf
of
SAJI
$.
TS'ZE, adviser of
TSAO
LEGEND
An
TSAO.
episode in his
JAPANESE ART.
IN
life
is
frequently
feast,
his
illustrated;
protector
had
regret that
he had been unable to obtain any carp from the river of Sung Kiang, then
considered a rare delicacy.
rod,
and
bowl
his
Nothing
of fresh
the
loth,
for a
magician called
fishing
a transparent
in
water.
when
able to render his body invisible, and thus escaped his pursuers:-
One
day,
them miraculously
mere hollow
of
skins.
their load,
it
was because he
when
it
was found
opened a
fruit
also
oranges to be
his
was hollow
If
in
filled
he relieved
fruit,
Saji
choice
the minister
mind, whereas
The
minister
thereupon had him beaten and ordered his death, but the edge of the sword
turned on his neck; he was then
passing
herd of goats;
all
the
put
in
taken a different form, and put back the heads on the bodies,
some
descendants can
still
KENSHI,
774.
with such"
occasionally be seen.
He ranks amongst
(or
of the
had
the Sennins,
and
is
BK
ffl
q.v.).
SAKATA NO KINTOKI
B$-
KlNTARO.
775.
n$
|fc
ROSHI (Lao Tse), SHAKA (Buddha), and KOSHI (Confucius) are often represented
partaking from a jar of Sake, the taste of which affects them in different
This jocular presentment of
ways, shown by the play of their expressions.
the three chief sages of Asia is intended to convey a philosophical meaning:
Although the liquor is taken by all three from the same receptacle, yet it
affects them in different ways; so the truth, one and unalterable, may be
variously expressed
by
300
meaning and
LEGEND
IN
ART.
JAPANESE
its
of creed
may
SAKURA.
776.
The flowering
near
Arashiyama
Mukojima, also
in
Tokyo,
and
in
Uyeno
Kyoto,
tree,
Japan.
form of Hanami,
favourite
cherry
Tokyo,
famous
are
is
in
for
in
bloom
in
are
is
Yamato,
their
trees.
The cherry
art.
is
See EMBLEMS.
SAKURA
777.
HIME.
the story of the apostate priest, SEIGEM (Kiyomizu), forms the basis.
him
Seigen's
to continuously think of
her,
to
wear a garment decorated with cherry flowers, and to forget the duties
his calling.
He was killed by the servant of Sakura Hime.
Seigen
of
volume
SAMBASO
778.
2E ?$
of Hokusai's
Dance,
il-
Mangica
the
(p.
some
the progress of
fire
and smoke.
fan.
When
fissures,
7.5).
of
origin
at
which
Nara
in
appears
to
807 to stop
In this
is
is
KIXA and
with the red disc of the sun and twelve divisions representing the months;
but seen sideways
the case
His dress
in
is
with black
spots, the
780.
evildoers,
however,
its
is
not
always
KOSHIN.
(This,
and crane
779.
it
MASKS).
SAMBIKI
SARU.
The
three
mystic
monkeys
consecrated
to
SAMBO KOJIN
shown with
H8
three faces
5nL
301
LEGEND
God
Spiritual
of
of
Sambo Kojin
JAPANESE ART.
IN
found
in
Sambo Kojin.
of
SAMEBITO
781.
whom
made
he
wanted
of
language, the saddle with two side boxes receiving the popular
current
name
on the pack-
marry a
to
Miidera,
rescued by TOTARO,
dreams.
all
beyond
after reproaching
him
and
insatiable,
girl
near Otsu.
and
his bride,
rich
A.-
$$
the temple
jewels for
a dish, his tears crystallising into ten thousand rubies. There appears to be
a Chinese parallel to this story, unless indeed both are identical in origin.
HIAO
JIN
perfect
pearl,
and
the
to
tears,
it
became
fell
shopkeeper
for
his
Fuji,
the
kindness.
SANADA NO YOICHI
782.
vassals
of
\j
to
it
show
09
for
iff.
a hunting party.
simply
Matano no Goro.
to
received
it
it
back at
Sanada no Yoichi
of
known
Seizing the opportunity thus offered, he threw the rock at the boy,
who however
head
his powers,
At Okuno, near
is
also
Matano no Goro,
shown trying
whom
he
has
thrown
on
the
ground
(Buyu
Sakigake Zue).
783.
after the
SANETOMO
murder
of his
5Jf
]j$j.
Son
302
of
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
and
it
was decided
Hachiman
of his
(at
impending
for
fate,
he composed a farewell
high priest
Sanetomo
that he
to
poem
his
his servant,
Hada
tree
Kinuji,
memory of his master but he did not put on his armour. The
of Hachiman was his own nephew, Kugyo, son of Yoriiye.
As
left
the
was avenging
He
his father.
was caught
plum
further
on and
killed
on the
...
He
spot,
SANFUNE
jEl
~F%
JiL
SANFUSHI.
or
is
on
attached a girdle.
horse
SANKAN.
backwards so
who
Chinese philosopher,
as
admire
to
the
scenery
is
represented
riding on a
is
travelling.
786.
SANSENJIN 2E HI
JP$-
six
of
War, represented as
See BISHAMONTEN,
SANSHIN 5l
a treble body.
788.
Jfh
Mythical individual
who
SANSHIU
ti"-
Mythical
men with
triple faces.
See FOREIGNERS
(Mythical).
789.
SANYO
^ ^.
of Mahastamaprata,
or HIMAN.
One
Seishi
of silkworms.
33
Bosatsu.
LEGEND
SANZO HOSHI
790.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
ii
priest,
^ (GENSHO).
or
in
hundred and
to
China
relics
and some
him with
and
powers,
magical
number
of his
him
helped
own
had
his travels he
During
in
his
a hundred and
by blowing a corresponding
matter
this
to perform
hairs,
who
went the
impeding
friendly Rishi,
movements
was able
of
791.
SARASVATI.
792.
SARUGAKU
793.
^ ||
War
BUGAKU).
(see
^H^H
dance
The feud
earlier
of the
Monkey and
Long-nosed God of
jg fa.
sometimes said to have been seven cubits
is
useful
of
See BEXTEN.
to their original
offices
the Crab.
794.
them
to restore
under-
the
is
mark
usually represented clad in white, and bears on his forehead the Urna
of the Boddhisattvas.
three
He
followers:
six
fifty-seven
in 646.
The Chinese
when
is
ffl
first
Emperor
bells
in
in
Heaven and finding the road blocked by Saruta Hiko, she appeased the God
He is specially celebrated on the day of the
and made him give way.
Monkey, and accordingly
795.
Yoritomo.
is
SASAKI MORITSUNA
He went,
with Koshin
identified
in 1184,
^ ^ $j,
(q.v.).
of
Omi, was a
retainer of
304
For
LEGEND
the
many days
chiding
He
two
forces
watched each
of
challenges
JAPANESE ART.
IN
secured the services of a fisherman, and once the location of the ford
man
straits
in
Kojima by
Yoriiye,
his
received
this
Torizaka, in
captured
the
across
famed
lady
her
for
strength
Fujito
head, retiring
who
then
daughter of the
and
military
the fortress
the place,
of
and
HAN-GAKU,
skill,
rebel.
# # fc ^
SASAKI TAKATSUNA
GAWA episode); also BATEISEKI.
796.
(Lin
The day
traitor.
Sainen.
was
797.
798.
j||
to cross a river,
JR.
jg was a man
and
as the ferryman
himself across and put three cash on the seat for his
in
the water a
of
Seika,
Shoku.
in
an iron
axe,
SAYEMON
800.
SAYO HIME
See BENKEI.
(ToGASHi).
f
)$
(MATSURA).
As the
fleet
SEIOBO
So long did
the Bofu
^
is,
lord.
-0J:.
seki,
or
O TOMO
furii
yama, waving
became
of the Fairies, Si
WANG
305
.
LEGEND
mountains.
which
In
the
once
peaches
from
this
According to a Taoist
to
B.C.)
carrying
Vol. 4,
may
respectively
easily
the
peaches
and her
to
familiars,
and her
the fairy on
Seiobo no
sister,
Shiji,
sometimes
Indra,
KIMBO, and
KITAI
called
also
SEISHIN FUJIN
jit 3$.
J?
whom
SEISHONAGON
fn
Shaho
visit of
is
Bukuro,
This episode
Wu
Ti (Kan
one of her
is
is
of the Indian
(TAICHEN
she
who
WANG
of
legend.
FUJIN), or TAISHIN
(no
perhaps a transformation
802.
Ehon
woman who
is
Ti
the mountains.
Wu
eater.
attendant,
is
an
by
In
fan.
the
(q.v.)
no Buti)
She
to the court of
in
of
Chinese
the
on
immortality
accompanied
dressed,
be,
conferred
shown gorgeously
is
of
fruit
Ti,
which
tree,
Two
years.
present
SEIOBO
Wu
story,
thousand
three
in
Emperors,
ART.
JAPANESE
its
only
ripens
IN
Huen
Fujen),
^ $] |f
who
rides
on a Kirin.
his
courtiers
"How
who
the
is
raised
snow
of
Koroho?"
the
freshly
Nobody understood
fallen
except
Hakurakuten's poem:
"The snow
of
Koroho
is
seen
by
raising
the
curtains."
804.
jJH iff
^p.
SEITAKA DOJI
fjjlj
Attendants of the
B% $P H;
-J*
and
KONGARA
DOJI ft $S
deities of
SAMBASO (U.K.)
SENKIO (H.H.T.)
SO.NGOKU (C..H..V.)
SAN SUKUMI (M.E.)
SAIGYO
SIHTADASHI SAMBASO
SAMBO KOJIN
SAKE TASTERS
(H.S.T.)
HOSHI
(H.S.r.)
(^.)
SA1SHI
(ir.L.S.)
(.}/./;.)
LEGEND
the waterfalls.
SEITAKA
is
IN
SHOKO
(Nichiren
WANG
MU.
SEI
807.
SEKION
808.
SEKISHOSHI
tffe
He
-p
is
Deified
appellation of
of
in
lotus.
KATO KIYOMASA
sect).
is
^ ^.
shown
Jfi|,
who
See SEIOBO.
Son of Benten.
^ ^ ^F
See KWANTAI.
was the
He seems
rain
Seitaka
tf IE
806.
Shinno.
dressed in
is
SEI
A figure
Kongara white.
a somewhat primitive manner
805.
JAPANESE ART.
and holding
the
of
in his
hands
SEMIMARU j$
who taught
810.
$i (HAKUGA).
UDA;
SEXGEX
>
faj,
The
ASAMA.
or
Princess
of trees to flower:
811.
SENNINS.
812.
SENSHA
who makes
the blossoms
See RISHIS.
$ft
Tji,
or
KOMIO.
One
of
the sons of
Benten,
trans-
was
SENTARO
fill
IB-
bales of rice
to
die,
and
sent to
the
elixir
of
life,
She
relating
landed in
Wang
Demon
Ti, afraid of
valley,
that
in
death,
the island of
WANG
Emperor, T'sin
37
certain grass,
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
one leaf of which was enough to revive a corpse, and he had sent Hsu Fu
to fetch some.
him
p.
seq.).
and
life,
in
answer
26 and
that
ever,
and
his earthly
He
life.
But during
in their
beset
him
he began
coming back, but there was no way out of it, and his indecision
A
nearly cost him his life, as he came perilously near the waves.
rat running upon his bare shoulder awoke him
it was only a dream after
to regret
...
This
all.
The
or
of
last
is
the
iMitsobioye.
lengthy
to be
Ozaki's book.
SESSHIDO
814.
the slopes of
him
fjjjj
jj|
Mount Hyakujo.
SESSHIU
815.
fifteenth century,
ffi.
Once he met
Celebrated
born in Osaka
in
there
1420.
He was
some
between
offence,
his toes.
man was
so
816.
Setagawa.
come
is
to the
monastery
to a pillar as a
floor
to set
near.
of
the
of
punishment
him
Some
free
the worthy
sent
half
(5 0)
jf $|.
308
The
Biwa and
the Buddhist
LEGEND
of
temple
Legend
Ishiyama.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
upon
places
who
shichi
(Chikurin
The seven
f$ (Yuan
PJC
nephew, GENKAN
hated,
and
literati
poets,
ts'i
Fujiwara
TAWARA TODA.
lin
of
hien,
^^M
ff
met
frequently
who
convivial immortals,
group were:
this
GENSEIIKI
It
him
requested
Kenjin).
illustrations.
formed
meeting
817.
in
Mount Mikami.
of
MUKADE,
centipede,
the
it
id*
$}
Tsi),
and
his
staff.
is
of
Tanabata and of
to
the
to those he loved.
Wu
Way
who
to
smooth her
tresses
I.
(C.J.R.
up
14$).
ffj"
|f>lj
him, in case he
KIOSHIN
\n\
Oju
-$i
-p-
fell
^fr
who wished
Siu),
SANTO
jjj
man with
RIUREI
^fjp
staff;
fjf
carries
a book.
Hwei
(Wang
was stoned
his estate
pleasure,
practised
(Liu ling),
fruit of
tree.
duty
for
it
Wu
shown
an old
as
of rising talent.
under a willow
his
was a patron
left
Ti,
When
of
a student,
spirit
which he
with a
tongue
room one
seven ells
night, and Ki Kang then blew out
the lamp, saying: "I am not afraid but disgusted at your ugliness," and the
He was sentenced to death as a wizard, and showed his
spirit went away.
long came
indifference
818
wanted
by tuning
his
in
his guitar as he
SHACHIUSHO
to
cross a lake;
crossed on a
bamboo.
fi f$
there
|fl,
walked
was no ferryman
In consequence,
309
he
is
or
Once he
LEGEND
the
waves by a branch
of
IN
JAPANESE ART.
bamboo.
Compare DARUMA;
see
KANSHOHI;
Anderson's Catalogue.
SHAEN
Si 9.
He
worthies.
is
Ifl
[HJ.
usually
illuminating materials;
his studies
Two
by the
other
Chinese student
depicted
books by night
without a light:
one,
SHOKO, by moonlight, the other, RIUTO, using the reflection of the light upon
the
snow
window.
See RISHIS;
see
Mangwa,
Vol.
3,
SHAKA
820.
the Chinese
name
biographical
ff
of
^ (>& H ^L)
sketch of Shaka;
being
which he
is
most
often represented in art are given in the Butsu dzo dzui, the four principal
ones being
no
to his father,
returning from
head
partly shaven,
he
of red
This figure
wood, perhaps
Shaka,
on
the wind.
left
is
lotus,
is
the
commonly met
as
netsuke,
usually
memory a
figure of the
out
of
hand
in
lap;
rests,
310
the teaching
the head
is
gesture.
lotus,
The
with
left
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
curled hair, which a French writer described as "les colimacons qui pendant
sa retraite vinrent refraichir
The
le
du Buddha."
front
in
supplemented by a
is
large jewel
on a raised
lies
eyes,
platform,
head resting on a lotus; he has entered the Nirvana. Legend has it that
when Buddha died all the animals wept except the cat, and the scene is
his
Amongst
common,
fairly
identical
in
is
in the
healer,
whom
are
standing.
Yama
Goshi no Shaka
(q.v.),
Other
incidents
popular form
whose
in
his
in
which Shaka
found
is
sometimes
are
in
Japan
eastwards in the
filtered
worship
career
is
fifth
century,
company
trinity.
depicted,
that of
In
Amida (Amitabha),
and whose various
forms are
over
the
that
states
the princely
Kojo
is
womanly form
protector of Buddhism
in
depicted
in
(q.v.),
Japan (572-621).
SHAKKIYO
821.
Kwannon
^J
^.
sort of
long reddish or brown hair, reaching to their ankles, and carry peonies in
their
the
of
sacred
SHAKUJO
said
to
mountainous
emblematic representations
822.
They
of worldly
;fct
Staff
to insects
amongst
in
the
peonies,
power.
with
approach
roaring
districts,
swarming
rings,
monk
attribute
to
roads.
give
of
Jizo.
warning
It
of
is
his
LEGEND
SHARI
823.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
(Relic, Sanskrit,
^'Ij
SARIRA).
gem-like water-worn
cremation.
after
They were
earlier
in gardens.
and a
crescent,
the
Tama
its
grooves,
The
It
representing
flame,
by unbelievers
made
Buddha
in his
^f
SHARIHOTSU
(Shaka),
825.
SHARK.
826.
SHE
827.
SHIBA KISHU
He
is
TI
has
If]
See MIMIZUKA.
and number
in direct
the
of
See TANKWA.
celebrated of the ten disciples
his
4).
See
J| ^f.
J|
^ i,
CHENG
(SHIN NO SHIKO).
He
upon which
at a table
ONKO
contributed
illustrated.
WJ
H)
MA KWANG).
Tsung dynasty. An
$n.
considerably
(SzE
to
his
all
his
let
One
celebrity,
whom
in a
Sze
Chinese statesman
episode of his boy-
and
is
often
found
Ma Kwang, watched
huge porcelain
jar,
over the
and
five essences.
The most
$J.
into
shown seated
SHIBA
828.
fell
its
and
air,
tall vase,
hood
with
fire,
WANG
girl,
Daimio lantern
water,
earth,
looked like a
Ij
five
to vary in size
itself,
is
or
Go-Rin,
the Toro, or
respectively
The tama
(jewel or spirit).
of
shape
is
of
the
circles
found
took
shrines
these
periods
Ma Kwang, who
This episode
312
is
to
represented in netsuke in
LEGEND
sword
guards,
in the jar,
opening
ART.
JAPANESE
and
usually
etc.,
IN
fishes
mind
Onko
is
of
SHIBA SHOJO
shown
often
Ju,
following story:
Near
Jg
#P.
writing
his
prophecy was
fulfilled,
of
King Ti (Han).
he
fell
when
He soon
four
when
SHIBA SHOTEI f
period Kaigen, in the To
The
the
J|
father of his
called to court,
to take
(SzE
flj|
MA CH'ENG CHENG)
lived during
the
night
book,
religious
BUNSEI,
others
heard a
low voice
who was
nearest
to
This
the
830.
the
horses."
He then wished
Emperor Wu Ti.
wife had grey hair (Ehon Hokan, etc.).
his
to
the
retired,
widow who
love with a
in
drawn by
to
of the pillars:
Shiba
credible.
less
two-headed snake.
W]
however, somewat
is,
Capital,
now,
Po, which
829.
Siang
Wen Yen
of presence
the
like
filled
wizard,
that
of
with a dim
went
to
his
child
light.
During
reading
One man,
bedside and
noticed
on Shiba's forehead a small sun, which nearly illuminated the whole room;
he also found that the sound came from Shiba's brain.
Shiba
831.
shown sleeping on a
is
SHIBATA KATSUIYE
water-pots in
lieutenants.
castle,
divan.
ffl
ffi
usually
depicted
breaking
^,
was
easily
of his
detected
by Taiko,
who
attacked
Sho, in Echizen, after killing his wife and daughter, to escape capture.
313
The
LEGEND
IN
JAPANESE ART.
He was
besieged in the
and could not get fresh water from a spring outside the
His soldiers greatly suffered from
besiegers were too close.
castle of Chokoji,
moat
thirst,
as his
and
to stimulate
their
chamber where a few pots of water were kept for emergency, ordered them
to have a long drink each, and then, without drinking any himself, he broke
the pots.
sortie
Some
victory.
832.
household
-fa
J$ (SEVEN GODS
jjg
been
has
divinities
assemblage
of
each of
its
Western writers
in
their
or
OF
fanciful
less
and
to
attributions
by
described,
variously
the Japanese
appears
to
have
been
no Kami, on the
Oi'
lyemitsu.
recognised
the
before
as
well as
clivities for
or
of
the
in
art.
introduction
and
it
of
day
1624, to
end
first
may have
Their invention
This
LUCK).
failings
in
of
this
semi-
took, from
the
popular worship
and with
endless
pro-
pleasantly
humorous,
if
irreverent,
treatment:
the luck-
bringing Daikoku of Indian origin, his supposed son, Ebisu, of Shinto descent,
Fukurokujiu the ever-smiling (which Ehon Kojidan states to be another
presentment of the Taoist Lao Tsze, and a duplicate of Jurojin) rub shoulder
with the rollicking Hotei and the musically-inclined Benten, both of which
are
warrior-like,
of
Bishamon
member
of
this circle
who,
God
Buddhist creations.
Wealth, he
is
is
the
only
place
in the
Kishijoten
occasionally
takes
of
Jurojin
(Ehon
works published
in
six.
Kojidan).
the early
LEGEND
A work
Fuku
Jin.
JAPANESE
ART.
called
It
IN
an English adaptation, by
Genii della
sette
(//
of the Shichi
felicita),
and
SHIGEMORI
833.
war
During the
$, TAIRA
of Heiji, he attacked
three
It
his horse
xo.
Nobuyori
son
Eldest
of
Kiyomori.
at the
his
helmet got
loose,
One day
he.
found
the palace a
in
the revolt of the yamabushis of the Enryakuji, and refused the help of Corean
physicians;
on each
He
side, in front of
eight
SHIGETADA
835.
SHIIKI
jf|
jjj|
fa.
See HATAKEYAMA;
period of the Shin dynasty, in the reign of Bu, and asked to be ferried across
a stream.
to
The boatman
row him
saw
across, but
reviled
him because
when he landed on
his dress
was
dirty,
and refused
SHIH TE
837.
SHIKORO
?.
two
tigers.
See JITTOKU.
BIKI $&
<j|
means armour-breaking,
and
refers
to
armour, the
the assailant.
latter's
The
and Mio no Ya
Soga no
known
of
Wada
is
hand
rebellion).
Mankodoro Bridge
in
1211,
during the
LEGEND
SHIKKUGANJIN.
838.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
master
Divinity
of
From
eyes.
his
in
image
The
He was
of
the
his
of
their
In
name
is
expression,
Desires
and round
Chinese
the Ressen
written
Den he
jjjl $$fe
shown
usually
sage,
shown feeding
is
Shiku chi
yo.
for
lot
left
for
the country
of
Go,
leaving
840.
retainer
the
man
them having
sold
all
his
|t
||
jjjft
of cocks.
and
of
WO
SHIKU KEI
839.
fierce
Hokkeda
the temple
Heaven
the
Hosokawa Takakuni.
of
Daimio
of
Awa
-".
(Miyoshi
neighbourhood present on
Shimamura Kani.
in
$-f)
jj$
r^i
Amagasaki
of
fl'J
(1532) he fought
the straits of
their
IV.
ft
a warrior.
was a
against
defeated,
found
They
in the
are called
SHINANSHA
841.
Kioroku
In
fcj|
^J
ffi
The
iji.
south-pointing
carriage
the
of
connection
vehicle
upon which a
needle
figure
will point to
Kotei
(]H;
carriage with
is
is
rubbed upon
>3f)
him
made
it,
use of
to guide
him
it
to build
his wars,
in
float
In
fljj$
He was
lj
jfc
$J
as a
it
the southern
^fj,
and
if
upon water,
an
it
respectively.
the Shinansha,
and he had
could magically produce clouds and fogs around his army (IV.
842.
one place in
in
6,
this
who
V. 5).
^.
he visited the temple Juneikan, on the Mount Howo, and on the wall he
LEGEND
wrote the characters of the
Den, VII.,
of
He
Emperor, and to
is
horns,
tortoise,
crane,
longevity,
16).
SHINNO
843.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
jj^
name:
it
is
He invented
and that he was nurtured by wild beasts in the Lieh Shan.
the plough and the harp, founded the sciences of botany and medicine, and,
harnessing eight dragons to his carriage, he traversed the earth and measured
its
He ranks with
dimensions.
Full
hi
one of the
as
844.
When
Yoshisada.
was pursued by
the
^^
ffi
Retainer of Nitta
^'.
latter
Ichijo Jiro,
feet
or so, says
the
shiro
Shinozuka,
Kawae.
of
defying
the
His
companion,
besiegers,
jumped
Ujiaki,
into
committed
boat
and
seppitkii,
but
single-handed
weighed the anchor, slept in the boat, which the wind carried safely to
His daughter, IGA NO TSUBONE, became the
Oki, and escaped unscathed.
wife of Masanori, third son of Kusunoki Masashige.
845.
SHINRAN SHONIN
Toyano
reluctant
to
accept
it
teaching.
them that
in
in
of
the
1232 he found
He then
stuck
his
Founder
317
LEGEND
IN
peculiar
original
staff,
but,
Asakusa, shows in
small
bent
which
twigs
staff,
is
which
size,
the
it
said
is
staff in
be
said to
temple Zempukuji, of
its
JAPANESE ART.
of the faith."
SHINRA SABURO
of
the
tune,
him
The
Tokiaki.
to teach
f? II
latter,
him the
instrument used
is
of
it
teaching
to
his
own
son
so,
seating on shields.
The
Yoshimitsu took his name, Shinra Saburo, from the temple of Shinra
Myojin, where his "name-changing'' ceremony took place.
SHINRETSU |$
847.
||.
(Sairan),
q.v.).
daughter
She
is
also
^^^
SHIRAKA\YA
848.
lived
in
and
849.
SHISHI
850.
SHISHIMAI
with a shishi
has
its
yBT
$jjj
fr.
and
851.
SPARROW
852.
retired
See KARASHISHI.
parallel in the
feet,
The
Ho-o.
is
It
may
SHITAKIRI SUZUME
I)]
^.
Story
of
the
TOXGUE
CUT
(q.v.),
TENNO
SHI
Guardians,
who
correspond
to
;H 3.
the
Tchatur
the
Maharadja,
318
attacks
guardians
of
of
the
Heaven, or Four
demons.
(Lokapala)
of
the
They
four
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
To
of the
are
They
the North,
Brahmans.
To
the West,
KOMOKU, with
His face
is
red
and
spear,
sometimes shown
god, VIRUPACHKA.
as
To
the South,
To
the East, JIKOKU, with a green face, in armour and carrying a sword
or a dorge.
It
is
SHITSUGETSU
854.
SHIUJUSHO -^ Sp
Son
fT /J
of Benten.
four
See HAXKI.
||.
years
For some
of her daughter-in-law.
old
fifty
He met
her at
in
last,
the
in
SHIUME OGATA
856.
SHIYEI ^f
,f
in
it
f|lj.
fish,
who
the rain
857.
told
fell,
him
it.
feelers.
that
it
pp.
was
SHIZUKA
of
Tong
riding
on a
carp.
town
the
See JIRAIYA.
kept
to seek her.
it
855.
Chen Tsung,
of
reign
principal
knelt
there
to
of
was
so fine that he
to the clouds
Mekake
was
YOSHITSUNE,
sometimes
When
shown
in
Yoshitsune
LEGEND
fled to
He gave
and
skin,
reclaim
its
warrior's
parting
that
it
Tadanobu
gift
a fox
dress
a fox
as
really
of
Yoritomo
the
in
Two
play of the
the
has
legend
Tadanobu was
son,
her as a
his retainer
the drum,
mother.
troops
ART.
JAPANESE
to escort her.
fox
IN
who was
temple of
Shizuka
buried
is
She
alive.
is
See ASAZUMA.
middle.
Shizuka, helped by
the
jealousy of Kajiwara
legends
kill
make
off to
Shizuka.
lover,
The most
it
lived
substituted
own
life
sent
later
in
his
public exhibition,
owing
J:
Founder
A-
interesting episode
is
Nikko,
to
henchman, Bamba
whom
(q.v.).
His
life
for
temple of Nikko;
account of
who
Yoritomo
to
her
risking
Kagetoki,
SHODO SHONIX
858.
be sent
after the
Hatakeyama Shigetada,
the
Chuda, to
in
is
of
the
first
Buddhist
full of legend,
and an
from the earth to the sky, and proceeded forward to see them.
He found
his road barred by a wild torrent, and was praying for some means to
traverse
it
when a
in
with a string of skulls as a necklace, called to him from the other bank.
This supernatural being said that he would help him as he had once helped
Hiuen Tsang (Sanzo Hoshi), and threw over the torrent two blue and green
snakes, which formed a bridge.
and
After
320
crossed,
the
god
LEGEND
SHOGIO BOSATSU
859.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Tokyo which
receives
image of the
Bosatsu
Shogio
is
explanation
saint, after
one
is
the
of
saints
of
Nichiren
the
voto.
and
sect,
no
wet.
SHOHAKU
860.
He
is
i$[
was a
flower) for
some unknown
who assumed
reason.
with
horns,
gilt
He
to
He
He
tail of his
or
decorated
Often enough he
mount,
like the
Chinese
when he went
century,
the
for
flowers,
incense-
His
writer.
861.
name
is
SHOIDOJIN
$SM
A.-
sa e
mending
it
his clothes
with rushes.
it
fell
to
pieces.
862.
SHOJO.
863.
SHOJO H[
evince
an
Son
of Benten.
>(,.
inordinate
See KONSAI.
who
human in
taste
for
intoxicants.
Their
faces
hue,
are
can be prepared when fishermen are lucky enough to catch any of them.
They
are usually
shown
and dippers;
or busy drinking, or even frolicking on the waves
in groups,
jar,
in
jars,
long-tailed
or cups,
tortoise;
etc.
intoxicated
LEGEND
They have human
with
monkey's
legend, a shojo
his potations
face,
was once
latter
SHOKI
some
to
According
of
part
Kwan
the
mythical
very rich.
in
lived
Mount
fjf J^.
man became
Sennin.
865.
netsuke.
the
in
Tempei
Nara
in
especially
SHOKI Hf ^.
864.
ART.
JAPANESE
voices,
with
IN
See KOSHOHEI.
to listen.
being,
the
Demon
Queller,
CHUNG
KW'EI, of the Chinese, whose legend dates back to the early period of the
Tang
dynasty, and
is
of a magical formula.
SHOKI
is
a conspicuous figure
in
Japanese
was once
in
He
the flesh.
Emperor Genso,
whom
to
is
way
art,
and
said to have
He had been
Kan no Koso,
manded
spirit
that
request,
by a
remain
to
Godoshi
is
for
said
ever
engaged
have
to
represent
garb,
all sorts of
etc.,
or run
away
but he
is
demons
man, accompanied
prefer to picture
oni,
him
in
strange places
own
hat,
is
often
depicted
riding
upon a
though rarely.
humorous
presentments of this familiar
Amongst the many
lion,
had com-
it,
the expulsion of
as a ragged old
him, or hide in
Corean
without
first
him
in
martial
of
live
had vowed
from China.
been
322
flute of
interfered.
figure
may
Other versions
SHOKI
SHINNO
(.-/.)
(If.L.K.)
SHAKKYO
(}.)
SIIIZUKA
SHOKI
SHOJO
(..;.)
SHOHAKU
(//..V. /'.)
(1I-.L.B.)
(7-.V.C.)
SHOKI
(M.I;
LEGEND
IN
ART.
JAPANESE
feel
"I thought
saying:
fire."
Sometimes Shoki
rock,
how you
see
yet
oni,
shown sharpening
is
demon-queller
is
own
under his
safe
place,
all cases
the scene
is
the
same time
made
refreshing
of Shoki's present-
and the
canons of Chinese
art,
According to the
one
in
colour.
Tu
SHOKUJO
866.
$&
like
^.
SHOKU-KYU-KUN
867.
YU.
TJjg
the mountain
Si
was a sage
Wu
When
old.
of
Mount
who was
Tai,
named
SHOKUIN
blowing
it
and day
their opening;
Kummo
j$| p|j.
it
its
breath, and
its
it
eyes,
never
name
the
of
mountain
haunts.
it
The SHIXRIKU
ffi
^,
tiger
with a
It
human
human
is
figured
ffi
$jp
|,
face,
the
Todo
heads:
on the top
The SORIUUSHI
in
jjitjl
human
heads.
of
which are
LEGEND
The SHAOKU NO
SHIJIN
JAPANESE ART.
IN
if*
^b
JF*
large
jjty,
face,
The TEISHIN
the head of a
no
A- men
man on
the
from Ti,
in
of a fish.
body
legs.
SHOMIO
869.
One
SAIKOKU.
^f, or
the
UMI Bozu,
of the sons
of
q.v.
trans-
Benten,
SHORIKEN ft
K| $|.
the waters,
was
and
sent
to
invade
the
of
country
of the
Toban, but
was
Chow
dynasty,
He
defeated.
in a dense forest,
where he met
instructed
the Taoist
strange
priest,
who
also
on a
On
the dead.
incense cup
cross
the
framework
their
Upon
in
He
sword.
H $&.
is
The straw
deck
is
sails are
* This
writing
They
is
(Riotoshin),
sometimes,
though
rarely,
made
^ (Suvastika).
Lu TUNG PING
left
in
white paper
their
He must
confused.
SHORYOBUNE
light
length.
carries
man with
depicted as a fat
871.
him
mysteries.
way
Tung Hwa-kung, who
^,
Den
324
in
some
cases
it is
written
Dead (Ura
bon ye).
'6
K -
LEGEND
SHOSEI |$ JE
872.
them shut
noise
of
was
for
Once one
JAPANESE ART.
IN
like
to
went with
he
his
open
eyelids,
thunder,
his
his
twenty
disciples.
eyes
his
disciples
873.
SHOSEN
who had no
3fe,
man
Sennin; was a
or KOZEN.
of
Kato-Taiyo
relatives,
white stone (potash?) and cutting brushwood, which he gave to poor people.
He
is
depicted as a woodcutter.
874.
Mangwa)
SHOSHI H|
riding on
jjj,.
and
a phoenix
to play
Shin,
whom
or as a sage on
flute,
it
Once
of the Prince
as she played
BOKU 0,
it
to the
tune called Homei (phoenix voice) a phoenix came from the sky, and Boku
had a
written that:
is
Sho.
Hokusai's
wife
his
dragon accompanying
the
playing
(in
bird.
two went
the
Later,
to
Heaven on the
world
SHOZUKA NO BABA
who
H it
fcf
the dried-up
which
trees
the
line
banks
of
the
of the under-
the clothes on
Japanese Styx
(the
Shozu
SHUBAISHIN
or LIEN CHI,
he
is
who
governor of his
Jf
gJ.
The
usually depicted.
own
them recognised
and asked for his
in
$fc
elevated
to
him
native
his
him
province.
forgiveness,
but
he
refused
325
to
take the
woman
back,
LEGEND
people committed suicide.
He
is
SHUCHU
fj>,
;xjc
the story of
Compare
877.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
SHUJUSHI
of Kaikei,
Kan
inches
in
dynasty.
SHUMOSHIKU
879.
three
gems
thirty
offered
fine
(Kioshiga).
(q.v.).
KIANG TSZE YA
$jj
for
jrj|
^,
also
(q.v.),
CHOW TUN
or
CHU MAN
I;
SHU.
represented contem-
his
poem upon
SHUNJO.
881.
SHUNK"VYAN
An
1=[.
exiled
depicted
priest,
He was a
KIYOMORI
priest
with
were
plotters
years
later
the
political
exiled
with
island
offence
to
the
when
and
discovered,
in
his
of
friends
the
were
was unpardonable.
sent
This
is
for,
of
their
associates.
them
pardoned
some
alone
left
to
die
as
priest
his
He
and
first
Kiyomori
Kikaigashima.
exception
Narichika,
Fujiwara
(q.v.),
who
HOSHOJI
the temple
of
Yasuyori
him.
standing on a
cliff
on
See CHOGEN.
is
speeding
away from
died at the age of thirty-seven, and his story forms the subject
comes to Kikaigashima
back to Japan.
just
in
which
former servant of
326
and takes
Shunkwan
his
remains
LEGEND
SHUSEN
882.
Jj
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Son
or MISHAKU.
^,
of
Ben ten,
also called
Munoju
SHUTENDOJI
883.
H H
'M
Literally,
Drunkard
Great
Boy.
This more or
less
no Yorimitsu,
q.v.)
and
his
four retainers
is
and
its
It
is
probable
that some foundation of fact exists upon which the imagination of generations
of writers has
by Mr.
had
free play.
F. V. Dickins,
The
is
story
well
known
it
of the expedition of
Raiko
against the ogre has been published in the Strand Magazine, with illustrations
When
the Shutendoji
his father,
Ibuki,
was
killed
The widowed
owing to his disgraceful conduct.
mother, Onoki, then abandoned the boy, who fell in with a band of robbers
and became such a rake and wine-bibber as to earn for himself the nickby
his
father-in-law,
is
terror
of
He
known.
Raiko was
fortified
successful,
himself in
that an
overgrown
in
in
the
height,
who was at night transformed into a huge demon, devastated the country.
He called upon his best warriors to kill the demon, and Raiko, with his
companions,
priests,
set
out to
carrying
their
fulfil his
armour
wish.
They
packed
in
alms-boxes.
They passed
and near a ruined castle
cap endowed with magical powers, which the hero was to wear under
327
his
LEGEND
The
helmet.
man
old
Near to
JAPANESE ART.
IN
them
further guided
Raiko and
to
woman washing
companions met a
his
ogre's
lair.
clothes
killed
So
glad
When
the lady,
band had
name
it
fortified
relation
distance.
that,
themselves,
them
invited
Shutendoji
to
partake
of
human
food of
his
and
flesh,
as
they appeared to like this fare he took kindly to them and offered them
drink.
once seized
at
The
again
of
lent to
him by
drink,
potent
drugged
The
fast
during
his
to
whose shrine
Sumiyoshi
wherewith to bind
after
slumber,
of
spirit
the ogre
sword
who were
ladies,
secret
fell
waiting
the
which,
with the
had been
it
offered
by Tamura Shogun Raiko severed the huge head of the giant, and the
head jumped in space, falling upon his helmet, in which the ogres fangs
imbedded themselves, but the
body of the
was slashed
troop
upon
to
pieces
the
destroyed
whom
is
by the
in
^c
the
eat,
of
Raiko, after
went
but at once he
to
fight
period,
at
The dead
life.
the
magic bonds,
which the gallant
the
captive
ladies
felt
stations.
the
beginning
birds
violent pains
328
of
the
war
up and
unable to break
Genho
as he
but
retainers
remaining
illustrated
SHYU-YU
writhing
Raiko's
The episode
884.
still
ogre,
internally
and
suffered
from
SUl'NKWAN
(S/wzo Kaio collection)
LEGEND
a
He went
terrible thirst.
who
him
told
He
cured.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
to find
is
SHYUTENSEN
Gen
of the
dynasty.
J1J
$gf
When
the
lived
Sennin,
fllj.
cane
SLEEPERS
Bukan Zenshi
He
(q.v.),
{Hj |j|,
and
is
sent
usually
to
SOBU 1
attached to
THE FOUR
his
(Su
Kukyuko he
spirit
leg,
Wu) was
a
goat,
or
Wu
Ti.
in allusion
Han
he was
100 B.C.
In
Wei
and urged
to
lii,
He
high in favour.
to
to
tried
the
kill
him,
Han dynasty
order to save
that
and
after
common
nearly
in
his
to
wondering
the
life.
Khan
The
to
bird'
request
by way
of a crook,
to
the
Su
who
of the
sent
an
Wu.
The Khan,
China could know better
free
King of
domains, and on hearing the explanation
man might
888.
is
him
how
SOFU
of office
to the then
wand
his
score of years,
earlier
describing his
scrip
the
of
He
KOKO,
(SHI Sui).
and are
tiger,
with
depicted
its
the
renegade,
to
invade
of
a cave.
887.
his
to
the reign
aloft.
886.
in
would accompany
the Emperor's throne and brandishing his
to
up
in
Emperor prepared
appeared to him
birds.
885.
fairy
j!||
3C-
Sennin,
3*9
LEGEND
the latter to
become
his
and
who
led
SO FUTSU YO
889.
Kioyu washed
adviser,
it
away.
in
Two
celebrated
are
feats
which a
890.
and
was
fly
had been
killed
when
1190,
times of drought;
CH'AO Fu.
is
Sun Kuan,
Wu
of the
^^5 ^
by Kudo Suketsune,
tried
Emperor
Kawazu
of
the mountains
in
to brush
Juro
(SOGA KYODAI).
the eldest
drinking
painter,
the Emperor,
drawn that
so cleverly
SOGA BROTHERS
his brother,
own ox
name
His Chinese
The Chinese
H-
2U
temptation
tree.
dynasty.
ear of the
his
JAPANESE ART.
IN
was but
boy, Ichiman-maru,
away.
Sukenari
who
Sukeyasu,
of
five
it
Hakone, about
years old
and
his
brother, Hako-o-maru,
the
would
boys
father,
murder the Shogun, who had killed their grandThe Shogun believed this tale, and ordered Kajiwara
to
try
Ito Sukechika.
Genda Kagesuye
to
Kudo
Suketsune,
who
saved the
life
of the
of
and
boys at the
last
story,
successful,
and
minute.
the
after
death of
Kawazu
(Saburo) his
her son
and
the
sent
name
of
boy
Hako-o-maru.
monk, but
the
younger
to
avenge
to
a Buddhist
father.
Once
in
daikon
as
to
become
that
Fuji,
temple,
Juro Sukenari
in
330
SIIIiiA
ONKO
(7..V.C.)
SI1ITAK1KI SL'ZU.ME
SHITAKIKI
Sl"/.l'ME
SEXTARO
(//'./...)
blllYEI
(ll'.I..K.)
Jl'RO's
KIDE
(//..v. /'.)
(If.L.K.)
(.I/./:'.)
THE
SOGA'S
ATTACK
(lI'.L.f.)
(C.P.P.)
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
own
she
two
named Tora,
the
girls
of
sudden
the
for
arranged
all
raging
the
inmates
preparing for
the
directed
them
tent
attendants,
somewhat
the
to
was
Otona'i,
so
both
of
of Kehaizaka.
sons
her
to
But at night
in the garden,
made
country,
wedding
and Shosho,
Oiso,
and
of Suketsune,
mother,
for
hunt.
Hatakeyama Shigetada
of Suketsune, whom they killed.
One of his
afraid that he ran away naked.
The story
following
day's
varies;
his
way
right
up
when he
to Yoritomo's presence
GORO
SOGA NO
of
strength
with
891.
the lappet
SOGORO, TK
115
remained
in
(SAKURA
Ghost
of
armour
Asahina's hand.
-jj).
Sakura,"
The
story
and forms
is
the
known
also
of
basis
popular play.
In the seventeenth century, under the Shogunate of lyemitsu,
of
Soma
Lord
the
(Shirnosa)
the castle of
Unfortunately
for
the
tax
collectors,
and
their
to
petitions
protest
having
against
been
reasonable
the
before
extortions
refused
by
the
of
his
his
Chief
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
to
himself.
lord
to
journey
the
Yedo,
capital
The headman
of
to
Iwahashi,
On
retreat.
to
accompany them,
Their
was
petition
two messengers were sent to Sogoro, who, now in better health, parted
from his wife and children, fully resolved to lay down his life for the
the people.
of
good
On
to
to
eleven,
their
but
all
await
litter.
and
seven
the Shdgun,
of
The
before
to
allowed
be
to
of
share
six
elders
his
of
petitioned
them took
The
to
prayers
the
Tokoji,
his
in
three
of
the
three days
priests
the
and
a few petty
Sogoro's
but
councillors
of
at
to
Oshima,
The
praying
that
and
three
found
him
vain,
sons,
their
but
Kotsuke
Ewaradai
on
in
and
eyes,
officials.
fate,
month
little
parents'
thirteen,
monkhood.
aged
six
Izen.
their
heinous
for his
beheaded
respectively,
in
Sogoro
and
his
wife
in
were
the
coffins
to
be
of
Shoho
priests
of
the bodies of
exposed
for
that
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
castle,
Two
his
with
filled
the
name
and
noble,
he was
although
towards
turn
shrieks
and
her
and
wife
his
erected
her
to
the
of
the
the
to
The ghostly
Sogo Daimiojin.
Kotsuke became partly mad, and
and
name
his
changed
upon
children
shrine
their
and
died,
memory
visitations
of
then
another
killed
to
of
ghosts
lord
of
pardoned,
finally
and
wails
appalling
ceased,
wife
his
death
of
determination,
the wife of
years after,
room
her
of
proof
murder
the
his
Hotta
Hido
no Kami.
A
Tales
of
lengthy translation
of
Old
and
Japan,
Sogoro's
the
SOJO HEXJO ff
of Sosei
one of the
893.
six
SOKOKUKIU
KWOH
TS'AO
(hossu).
He
poets.
He
famous
and
who
ways.
engaged
to
the
Sompin
Iwahashi
priest
named Sadamune,
Kinto
as
820-890.
Sennin
father
castagnets, or with
Chinese
flute
military
official,
and a fly-brush
How, who
lived
in
ascetic
life.
(SuN PING).
i[
Wu
ti).
King
as
(ffi
his
Gi selected
owing
Hoken
Commander-in-chief,
to the latter's
as
narrow-minded
Kikokushi
of
Sompin
When
an
ffi
SUN
strategist,
preferred
circa
iU Jf
headman
led
SOMPIN
together in the
l|f
Mitford's
is
894.
lived
in
Hayashi's work:
HS-
the
in
shown with
Kiu,
the mountains
the
of
self-sacrifice
found
be
will
story
open unless
live
his
peacefully
life
was
in
together, and,
danger.
333
LEGEND
On
JAPANESE ART.
IN
and
sum
of
forest,
his
to the Court,
way
who
went away.
some stones
lost
craved forgiveness.
of devils,
way
he
themselves;
in the
his
set
them
free
again,
would
they
break their pledge not to come further, he made a strong net of ropes, in
the meshes of which they were caught the following evening.
They became
then his faithful followers.
Shortly after Sompin's arrival at the Court of Gi, he was called upon
kill
He
him.
helpless
the
to
promotion
Sompin's
office
was
cripple
rescued,
of Daikokitshi,
or
although he cut
Governor, he tried to
off
Sompin's
however, by Jung-u-Ton $$
~f-
The
legs.
who had
jjjpj,
made him
(Ts'i)
led
to
the
help
by HOKEX.
on a
tree
who was
by
his Fieldmarshal,
in
army
a
After
near a pass:
deceived
came nearer
near at hand,
"Hoken
SOXTO
^.
lived
in
on
(Wsi),
and wrote
to
tree,
and
Sompin, ambushed
17.).
playing
name
of Gi
retreat,
soldiers of
depicted
His Chinese
to
this spot,"
started
The
VIII.
forces
killed him.
Sennin,
the
pretended
name
whole sentence.
against
and
manoeuvre
$*
as
die
will
895.
him
Sompin
he remarked his
to read the
fell
sent
Kan (HAX)
battle,
this
by
the twilight,
of
and
is
Sun
Kyu
upon
It
teng.
district
musical
is
said
he wore a
LEGEND
grass coat
and was
in
summer and
the ear of
him
grant
man
as
in
ART.
JAPANESE
He played
his
ff
flj
&
$ff
Hideyoshi.
He
the
of
Taiko.
any
reward,
The
he
request
then
might
when
Hideyoshi
Taiko's
but
laughed,
were
retainers
the
granted
for
to
and
some day he
felt
so
and
him
to
up
the
One day
wish.
stepped
thirty
promised
proffer,
strange
Sorori
assembled,
if
Depicted
ft.
who
once
latter
inclined.
ft
was a scabbard-maker,
service
the harp
arts.
divining
SORORI SHINZAEMON
896.
licking
the
in
skilled
IN
At the
began licking his ear, watching the nobles whilst so occupied.
end of the audience, all thought that he had spoken about their affairs,
and
felt
lavish
very
gifts,
wrath
but
are
stories
told
SOSAN
"ff
many
897.
bit
and
his
One
or SHIO.
306
and
B.C.,
When
the
credit
felt
Vexed by
sudden
had
has
his
the
first
and second
898.
SOSENWON
unknown.
"If
flij
refused
and
to
row her
the
the
of
w ood
wind
across
aiding
girl
Ho
in
the
home,
death
she
refused
the
third,
and
lake,
she
got
this
is
Once,
storm,
she
the
other
side
in
to
to
birthplace
and a dog.
she
woman whose
young
Tat
absence,
return
to
missed
his
his
call
believed
when a ferryman
of
but
intimation,
now
of Confucius,
son
dutiful
author
part
when
Four Assessors
of the
The scabbard-
them.
witty man.
this
by
born
conciliate
better
rich
about
^,
had
they
man towards
the old
the feelings of
thought
they
SOSHI $ -^
(strolling
with
335
long-haired
fan),
of
Ma, was
LEGEND
once governor of
King KEI,
and strove
the
and
Ryo,
to
imitate
pieces of Chinese
of
He
Moshitsuen.
of
district
of
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Sei
of
King SEN,
ROSHI.
was
he
at
lived
of
greatly
learned,
most
difficult
the
amongst
time
the
literature.
Amongst other legendary anecdotes, it is said that once in the mounThe astonished
tains he saw a woman fanning a freshly- made tomb.
sage inquired into this strange behaviour, and the
Yushi, and
called
tomb
was quite
the clay
till
who waxed
wife,
of
my husband
if
which consisted
let
him have
do
so,
that
to
his
upon
worms.
He
about
the
called SOSHU,
of
afterwards he
was the
felt
like
butterfly
900.
SOSHIN
901.
SOSO
an active part
He
rose
finally
only
and
is
when
shown
his
a butterfly.
In
in
he
$|.
the
Soshi
coffin
ready
for
radical
cure
for
Soshi's
wife to
his
and
to
at
last
he
if
died,
had
>J; *fr.
""If
whether
become a
his
butterfly,
or whether
form.
The
celebrated
Chinese,
TS'AO TS'AO,
to quasi-Imperial position
own
was committed
whilst
butterfly
lifted,
injustice
his
a remedy.
as
coffin
the
in
and he besought
brains,
him.
shape
life.
dead body, no
also
is
his
leave
to
One day
her.
predeceased
of
lid
relatives
his
human
eating
master's cerebrum
his
in
am
he
lifeless
suffered
his disciple
Soshi
dry."
ill-fortune
by
replied
has
marrying again
"
woman
336
put his
who
took
(q.v.).
his
usurpations, and
own daughter
in
her
LEGEND
and took himself the
place,
JAPANESE ART.
IN
He
following episode
On
poem upon
after
is
of
sometimes
the flight of
which
of
Wei,
shown standing
two crows,
was
he
in
in allusion to the
month
eleventh
the
boat
his
on
of
the
twelfth year
full
river,
rebels,
of
the
Addressing his generals, he told them that with that very spear
up.
and
Prince
of
title
he
throughout
the Empire.
On
seeing
in
gave the order to begin the battle of Sekiheki, in which he was defeated.
902.
SOTAN
(carrying
food)
served
her
magic from a wizard. Once when she was sweeping the yard, her mother
she replied that she was
enquired why she was more thorough than usual
going to be a fairy, and warned her that a pestilence would sweep the land
the following year, and that she could escape it only by eating the leaves
;
of their
own
well.
903.
SOYUDO
produce a cloud at
77;
HIUN
j|;.
stars.
SOYUDO could
will,
Sennin,
'ff
SHIXJIN.
SPARROW
bird,
it.
Oh
yes,
his
cantankerous
had eaten some starch paste which she had made and left in her garden,
so she had caught him and cut his tongue, and he had then flown away.
The old man was deeply grieved, and set out towards the forest in
337
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
name was
Bidori.
At
who
him, and the sparrow took him to the house of his family,
old
the
old
I
much
other
man
he found
greeted the
a whole-hearted hospitality.
Finally,
last
to
smaller,
him two
the
one,
light
which
full
The
at seeing
she
him
the
for
woods, calling
The sparrow
again.
gave her also the choice of two baskets; but the old
left
woman
selected
of
the
two,
who gave
In
follows
some versions
him
old
the
in his quest.
It
is
man
is
would be
commonly
goblins and
of
shrift.
host
she
illustrated
know whether
who
the old
basket.
of devils,
905.
STONES,
WOMAN STONE
of five colours.
WEALTH-GIVING; FUKU
See JOKWA.
ISHI, at
in
Hachiman,
Kamakura.
See KOSHOHEI.
When
to him,
but
the
stones
Buddhism
nodded
at
his
of
the
words.
STONE RUNNING
Emperor Ojin
(q.v.),
of
the
way
LEGEND
command
SPEAKING, at the
JAPANESE ART.
IN
of devils, In Izumo.
GAMA
See SAYO
Seki.
HIME.
ISHI,
title of
the
No
Imperial
play.
concubine,
Tama
no
Maye, took the shape of a stone, the SESSHO SEKI, the very sight of which
was
The
sure death.
priest,
Gen no Osho,
covering with
burst,
KANAME
ABE NO
See
arsenical ore.
recited
are said
to
SEIMEI.
See EARTHQUAKE.
ISHI.
by a straw
Susano-o from
are joined
Legend has
rope.
of
it
Futami ga Ura
OBA
still
The
first
New
God
At the present
near Ashikura.
which
at those rocks.
ISHI;
whose body
is
(Ise),
named Somin
that a peasant
Sun worship
it,
its
rescued
prayers in front of
man
to
to be seen
woman,
on Mount Tateyama,
is
arrow-heads
the top.
women were
important fact
certain
called
varying
limit,
in
height
the
according
the
woman
stiffness
of
setting the
the
climb.
still
The Gods
soon as Ariyaka's wife trod beyond the Nionindo she was changed into a
boulder.
NAILS DRIVEN
IN
ROCK
Benkei.
LEGEND
in
went
the wars,
tried to
and
to try
when
whom
Since this
his mother.
The
beings.
KAGAMI
stone
is
resisted,
who
and he
As she died
killed her.
Jizo Bosatsu
human
woman
tree,
called
mirror
IWA,
Soken, showing
which
in
older,
avenged
him
find
JAPANESE ART.
IN
in
Yamaguchi
a thin stream.
is
The
archer,
Yuriwaka
Daijin, sped
a shaft to this rock from Yokokawa, a long distance away, and the arrow
went through
it.
The Chinese
a tiger was crouching near the road on which he was riding, and sent an
He found on dismounting
that there
was no
tiger,
Kami Nobuyori
thrown by
Owo
Iko,
Matano no Goro,
and
Uyemon no
Miura
no
Yoshizumi.
An
exhaustive
stones
of
list
in
used
in
landscape
Conder's paper,
p.
137,
XIV.
Vol.
STONE
LANTERNS.
descriptions), there
is
In
a note to the
effect that
Chikusan
the ISHI
Teizoden
(garden
by the God IRUHIKO, who had stone lanterns placed along the lonely paths
of a mountain as a protection against the numerous brigands.
One of
these lanterns
They
was taken
are usually
made
to a temple built
in a
peculiar form,
in
Shari.
906.
STONES;
STRAW ROPE
NEW
J|L
jjjjji
(Shimenawa).
TEXGU NO TAMAGO
TAIKOliO
TEKKAI
(./.)
(<,.//..Y.)
SOSHU's
DKEAM
(P.M.S.)
(.V. r.)
UNKIAKU
[RISHI]
soso (<,.//..v.)
SUZU ARM (./.)
(..(.)
LEGEND
The straw rope used by the Gods to prevent Amaterasu from returning
the cave, and copies of which are placed in front of shrines.
into
The rope
made
is
of
coloured paper.
It
is
is
its
performance
evil influences,
New
had
its
skins,
loose
sword-making ceremonial,
is
In the
paid.
rope of
men
it
often
is
fire-walking
take
it
used in the
with
rice
ends
and
JAPANESE ART.
IN
custom which
camp
of
the earlier
still
is
fires
which
savages.
catcher,
SUGARU
907.
was a
fa ^S $f $
courtier
Emperor prepared
of
(KOSHIBE
Yuriaku Tenno.
NO),
It
is
said
that once,
Yamato, a thunderstorm
name
of the
Emperor
the
God
before
SUGAWARA MICHIZANE
TEMMANGU
$fa
God
(847-903), deified as
represented
^, KWANSHOJO
or
and
in
the
Jj|
^g
of caligraphy
burst,
the
Sugaru rode
to pray to
in
as
it
M-
also TENJIN
tied
SAMA
Raijin
Jfc
|*jl
Six.
to
his
breast
branch of
flowering
plum
tree.
he himself abdicated.
signified
proposed
his
to
desire
to
Go Daigo
and
once,
have a portrait of
when
Go
the Chinese
Daigo,
who was
much
Emperor had
ill,
Tokihira
wearing
the
LEGEND
be
might
insignia
JAPANESE ART.
IN
as
construed
omen
an
that
met
Tokiyo
whom
he
in
fell
in
love.
Km
his
he cast a
exile
$ the following
last
glance to his
trees
plum
in
poem:
Kochi fukaba
,i>
Niwoi okoseyo
Ume no hana
>>
Haruna wasurezo.
x
"When
the
perfume
never
breeze
eastern
blossoms of
the
forget
uprooting
itself,
then
been
given
him
killed
load
trees
plum
to
transplanted
poem upon
is
there
far
the costume
away,
and then
Chikuzen,
jumping plum
with
her
where
tree.
which
had
Tokihira's hatred
by the Emperor.
where he sent a man to murder him, who
year
retreat,
Umewo, one
by
the
previous
was
is
wrote a Chinese
the
of
miraculously
It
passes,
Kochi)
trees;
And one
spring."*
my plum
became
wind,
(spring
of
the
retainers
of
the
ex-minister.
Then
who was in
retainers, Gemba and
Genzo at Kyoto.
He
sent
two
of his
Matsuo (brother of Umewo), to demand of Genzo the head of the boy, but
Matsuo had sent his
the head of Matsuo's son was given them instead.
^f
own boy
to
be
sacrificed.
accomplice,
Kiyotsura,
were
~
>
There is a poem composed by Yoritomo's second son, Sanetomo, to the same import when he went
Hachimangu, where he was killed on the same day by KUGYO. It reads
5!
'f
ft
[-*
I
'
I
|
'
&
>
to the
Idete Inaba
Nushinaki yadoto
Narinu tomo
Noki ba no ume yo
Haru wo wasuruna.
34 2
LEGEND
killed
in
JAPANESE ART.
IN
as
Yoshihira.
and
had been a
tutor in Kioto,
Michizane
is
He
carved floated to Sakai' in the tenth century, and a temple was erected to
One
it.
its
day, in 966, the doors flew open and the image got out and took
on a neighbouring plum
rest
tree.
Lafcadio
house of
priests
of
saw a
Nikko,
large
and
cauldron
remained there to
of
hot
rice
rest
from the
taken
into
fire
who was
The
the night.
for
writer
an adjacent
His host then took him into the room, and showing him the empty cauldron,
told
him that
The
of
in
trials
the
Temmangu had
and troubles
been there to
of Michizane
is
often
costume of a Chinese
depicted,
official,
especially
given to
it
of old pictures,
much
but as
in
Michizane
is
never
of the
available;
to China,
and
went
to
it
is
As stated
;
Meigwa Zui
see also
343
Supplement
to
the
plum
name
in
tree.
Toto
the
No
Tenjin
so described in books
(III., i)
dressed
Kakemono,
Yen
eat.
spirit."*
4)
Wakan Meigwa
LEGEND
SUGIMOTO %
909.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
The weeping
7J.
priest;
much
tidings, the
of Takauji
army
two
generals, very
See
MASASHIGE.
910.
SUGOROKU.
911.
SUITENGU
See GAMES.
VARUNA, represented as
a flaming nimbus around its head, bristling
idol,
with snakes.
and
The Indian
Hf-
Jfc
7jc
in
It
is
In
sometimes
helped Jingo
Kogo
confused
in her
with
the
emissaries
Korean expedition.
who
of
Gods who
the Sea
is
occasionally
Dan
no Ura.
Varuna
the
is
name SUITENGU
is
sailors
by
sea,
SUKETSUNE
912.
and murderer
of
SUKUMAMO.
913.
Sukumamo,
fg (KUDO SAYEMON
jjft
dance
which
whilst intoxicated,
SOGA brothers
takes
its
Kinsman
PI)(q.v.).
name from
the priest
amused
of the
X M ~& &
out of
it
his shoulders,
and
spectators.
It
is
also
called
ASHIKANAYE
or
KANAYE
KABURI.
See
the
book
Tsuresuregusa.
914.
Uji,
lust.
SUMIYOSHI
^ ^.
is
phallic symbols
344
the
of
public
LEGEND
is
Sumiyoshi
gaze.
for
the
whilst
divorces,
diseases
receives
goddess
the following
to
prayed
JAPANESE ART.
IN
is
Agata,
(Gulick);
The
SUMIYOSHI.
of Sumiyoshi.
spirits
One
SUMIYOSHI.
of
famous shrines
most
the
Settsu
in
also
called
SUMINOYE.
SUSANO-O NO MIKOTO 21 ft
915.
The impetuous
male,
most
shown
often
killing
the,
eight-headed dragon,
which threatened Kushinada Hime, by making the brute drunk with eight
one for each head and then cutting off all the heads
jars of strong sake
at
From
one time.
no
to
where
it
is
kept.
Susano-o
Yamato Dake
no
(q.v.),
Izumo.
and
the moon,
He
Dan no
lost at
whom
it
to the temple
Ura.
no Mikoto, and
is
the
King
copy was
consecrated
AMATERASU NO KAMI
brother of
the
Ama
Tsurugi,
Murakumo
handed
is
to
(or dragon),
his
YAWATA NO
mentioned
ORICHI,
name
of
Gozu Tenno.
sea,
of
of the tide, of
Nihongi.
There
is
Gozu), and
it
a
is
mountain
in
believed that
derives
its
name from a
visit
of
Susano-o
to Corea.
916.
Ti, called
described
SU SHE
iff.
him
(q.v.).
of the
Court of She
345
Wang
Koan
Sennin,
but
LEGEND
there does not appear to be
and
917.
SU SHE |$
918.
TADAMORI
the Taira
died in 1152.
See
$fr
TOBA
^ &&
He
(q.v.).
Amongst
(jfc
Founder
(TAIRA NO).
clan,
Kami Tadanori
of the greatness of
father of
and more often the celebrated capture of the oil thief (Abura Bozu).*
is said that one night when he was with the Emperor, and the rain
pirates,
It
any confirmation
may
it
JAPANESE ART.
IN
fell
torrents,
Tadamori went
in search of the
and
bristling hair
stiff
it
oil
from
its
head.
much
in
it
He bravely
was but a
one hand.
The
light
upon
He
Toro.
to
One
it.
also
is
man who
an old
thief
story
still
Tadamori
called
garment
called
is
is
excuses,"
and
oil
is
TADANOBU
gig.
of
Minamoto YOSHITSUNE.
legend.
fa ff
by Noritsune,
at the
brother, Sato
his
age of twenty-eight,
chief retainers
as well as in
in place of Yoshitsune,
whose
life
B Attributed
erroneously to
Takamochi by
Griffis,
who
Emperor Uda.
t In the Zoho
Ehon
whom
Issaoshi
Gusa
(1839), Vol 3,
it
is
34 6
said that
LEGEND
and
JAPANESE ART.
IN
expressed his
and
Taira,
regret
Sato
expired.
exposed his
own
YORITOMO.
In
Yoshitsune.
to
Tadanobu,
life
middle
the
the
little
To
armour
leader
of
his
to Yoshitsune to escape,
give time
(q.v.),
of
few days
Yoshitsune had
Tadanobu an
Later
Manju
(or AIKU),
his
table,
slaying
he
often styled
is
TADANORI
great TADAMORI.
He
is
&
crest
of
the
the
part
guise, as described
was betrayed
many
devoted
Tadanobu donned
in
to
his
of his
under SHIZUKA.
Yoritomo by
tent.
his mistress,
He defended
In
himself
He made
would-be captors.
this episode,
920.
himself
to
Go
who were
Yokogawa Kakuhan.
escort.
human
old fox in
Tadanobu
still
with a heavy
good
later
example,
the
flying
winter
the
of
brother's
his
following
fall of
allusion
to
Go-ban Tadanobu.
Son of the
(SATSUMA NO KAMI, TAIRA NO).
generally represented in armour near a cherry tree in
|5:
bloom, as
Inn).
an allusion to
his
little
Yuki kure
Ko no
Yado
poem:
te
shita-kage
K
#
wo
to seba
Hana zo ko
yoi no
Aruji naruran.
"When
tree,
one
Another
scene
for host."
sometimes
met
whom
with
represents
him ready
he suspected of having
347
to
betrayed
slay his
him
to
LEGEND
Okabe no Rokuyata, but
in
JAPANESE ART.
IN
she appeased
him with
1184, at Ichinotani,
no
Ryoshukn
Hana,
his
He was
poem.
killed
by Tadazumi (Ehon
sleeve
Shaho Bukuro).
of
^
fa ^
921.
TADATSUNE
922.
TADAZUMI
Minamoto
the
at
fa
|Sj S|J
the
(OKABE), or
battle of Ichinotani.
ROKUYATA
He saw
A 5S
was one
a Taira trying to
reach the boats, and pursued him; he caught him, but this adversary
down on
his knees
was
so
his
sword.
a poem
in
TADANORI
armour
the
of
to
have been
(q.v.) (1184).
TAJGENJO J
923.
She never
down
the
felt
the cold,
hills
likewise
formed
in
the
wall
of
the
TAI-IN-JO
|ij|j
TC.
who was
TAIKOBO J
?!?
teacher.
926.
TAIKO
^C
fS-
years.
(Japanese, KIOSHIGA,
grandsire's expectation,
and was
See HIDEYOSHI.
927.
from
success,
principal
members form an
in-
exhaustible source of art motives, especially the episodes of the struggle for
348
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
supremacy between the Taira and the Minamoto, generally called the war
of GEMPEI.
Finally the power of the Taira was entirely crushed by their
adversaries at the battle of DAN NO URA in 1185.
when
Ura,
the
One
INDRA.
*^f
EE
jf|
^ A-
names
of
who
lived
and
hundred
five
of
disciple
hundred years
He
girth.
who
by which
old,
drank
then
TAISHUX
932.
elephant
was
ways were a
evil
sore
disposition
the
Li
to
trial
of his
fondness
his
for
elixir,
had
thus
till
acquired
and
rock;
He was a
young.
him
on
for
he
friend
wine,
he was three
very
respectable
wisdom and
obtained
life.
ffi.
of
he
time
magic
of
fc
the son
drunk
depicted
everlastingly
reproved
FUJIN.
as
result,
Sennin,
-f-.
looking
years,
Gyokushi,
^m
TAIYOSHI
931.
his
the
of
depicted playing the harp on a white dragon, and riding amongst the
to
(q.v.).
TAISHIN O FUJIN it
930.
Dan no
TOMOMORI
defeated,
also
HI ^C,
the Rokubuten
of
of
sea.
TAISHAKU
929.
own body
his
to
At the battle
|.
frl
the child
of
army
is
TAIRA NO TOMOMORI
928.
Usually
the blind
his
son,
old
who,
represented
besides,
had
He
ploughed
to
with
boy
Ku Sow, whose
man,
as
an
overbearing
suffer
from
the
fields
for
him.
The
Emperor Yao heard of his piety, and gave him one of his daughters as
a wife.
Tai Shun succeeded him upon the throne, and he is one of the
twenty-four Paragons of
933.
never
filial
TAIZAN ROFU
ascertained.
virtue.
>(C [il
He was
^ 5t-
seen
Sennin,
cultivating
349
land
by
the
Emperor
Bu
LEGEND
Kwan
(Wu-Ti), of the
body.
decrepit
years
and
old,
dynasty,
man
The
old
very
near
who
marvelled
told
him
TAKANORI
jtj
fi,
935.
TAKARABUNE
Sometimes the
MONO.
its
who
Jin,
place
On New
for
netsuke,
The Treasure
$ft.
are
on
New
936.
Year's
of
which
was
is
Gods
of luck,
it,
is
rounded
endowed
of
its
later
these
years
function
the
pattern
which
for
Takarabune bought
The
$f.
They
to
picture of the
Takaramono
with emblematic
common.
fairly
suited
of
though
design,
little
frequently taken as
is
it
intended.
originally
with
into port,
sail
it
Likewise,
compact,
TAKARAMONO
supposed to
is
Year's
each
objects,
ship of the
usually represented in
article
latter
Year's festivities.
netsuke,
eighty-five
See KOJIMA.
when he was
to
New
and
face
youthful
is
the
his
death,
fairy who gave him some
became young again, grew new teeth, and his
934.
Fuku
at
that
met
he
the Shichi
JAPANESE ART
IN
are
meaning,
Hotei's bag,
or
the
the
with
associated
cargo
collection
of
representation
of
is
Gods
the
of
the
of
Luck,
Takarabune.
Grouped
together
in
The hat
of
of
invisibility
(Kakuregasd)
of the
Gods (Kagf)
Cloves
(Choji) ;*
it
Godown
Scrolls
replacing
Kakure Mino,
a purse
or
books
Daikoku's
protection
against
often
(Makimono),
Hammer
evil
spirits
(Tsuchi)
;
flat
oval object, perhaps a coin, found often associated with ornamental designs,
ffi
35
LEGEND
and
JAPANESE ART.
IN
called
bishi,
a hana
i.e.,
within
bishi,
a [connected] shippo.
the
is
Senriobako,
"one
called
figure
thousand
the copper
(Sangoju)
cash,
an
in
Ryos
Money
Zeni,
Ikari;
anchor,
an
orange-like
TAKASAGO.
938.
TAKATSUNA
939.
at
Uji
of
TAKATOKI
;jb
%j$
1& rj
(Hojo).
Nagasaki
Takasuke,
Daigo.
TAKAUJI
emblem
of authority,
power
of
the
Hojo, regent
and himself
last
until
of
his
Nitta
of
death
in
Yoshisada
Go DAIGO Tenno
has
1333,
in
had
set
been
dealt
See TENGU.
^'J
destroy the
The
to
940.
terminates with
(SASAKI NO SHIRO).
1312
Go
list
some
with under
and
GAWA.)
Kamakura from
fire.
jar
Uchhva.
Chinese fan,
937.
(Battle
branches
Coral
Tachibana,
fruit,
chest";
again represented by
is
the
the
f^ J%
Ambitious founder of
(ASHIKAGA).
the
Go Daigo Tenno to
to gather in his own
Hojo Takatoki,
tried
cleared
Go
Kyoto, but his success was short, and both himself and Kusunoki
(>
35 1
LEGEND
were
Masashige
beaten
he
Gawa.
Minato
at
JAPANESE ART.
IN
rebels.
Even
Go Daigo had
the
AKAMATSU
faithful
whence
to fly to Yoshino,
is
of
TAKAUJI, in possession
the
in
Kyoto,
first
of
year
Engen
(1336)
KOGEX Tenno, and even changed the name of the period from
From that time dates the sixty years' schism between
Engen to Kembu.
the
late
the
southern,
or
dynasty and
legitimist,
the
Komyo.
TAKAUJI defeated successively
Go MURAKAMI,
Nitta,
years he fought,
accounted
age of
three
his
for
fifty-four,
times driven
death
in
the
to
thirteenth
suicide,
year of Shohei
disease
yet
the
at
(1357)
fifteen
generations over
period
of
centuries.
In
1863,
all
by the partisans
the
verge
Twenty
dynasty.
legitimist
of
Daigo, Kusunoki,
two
the
Go
son of
in
images of Takauji
of
the Restoration
as
existence
Kyoto were
in
protest
the
against
beheaded
abuses
of
Shogunate.
TAKENORI
ft fl'I (KIYOWARA).
Usually represented
tf
It
is
said of
watching the flight of some water-fowl above a swamp.
him that once as he was going to give battle to his enemy, ABE NO SADATO,
941.
whose position he did not precisely know beyond the fact that it was
quite near, he noticed some wild geese, flying above a swamp in a straight
line
as
if
flight.
He concluded
years'
that
his
war.
942.
TAKENOUCHI NO SUKUXE
statesman to
whom
legend
an
ascribes
to
three
35 2
ft
3$
is
uncommon span
hundred and
fifty
warrior
of
life,
years.
and
varying
Minister
KMIMAMURA DANJO
(S/wzo Katti collection)
LEGEND
of
in
With
succession.
usually
represented
(Hachiman
gems
of the
He
is
943.
from
the
usually
emissary
the
of
Dragon
King
the
shown with
and headgear
the costume
noble
of
skin,
tiger's
of
his
TAKETORI MONOGATARI
This work
or
Empress,
went
he
(q.v.)
more sovereigns
to Korea, and he is
five
tides.
For
Kogo
the
receiving
q.v.),
A.D.,
Jingo
with
JAPANESE ART.
IN
is
the
moon
the
^ $&
*ft
child
|g.
The
history
of
the
oldest
storybook
in
E,
(Japanese,
Genji Monogatari.
944.
T'A
KI
$jj.
CHOW
when he
The
story of
who
fell
in
love with
of horrible episodes.
Pi
Kan
j:b "f",
let
B.C.
full
elder brother of
Six,
Kan
us see whether Pi
is
really a sage!"
"A
Pi Kan's breast
He
built,
He
another.
in
which naked
a butcher, to these lusty people, and had a "lake of wine" built for their
hung with
edibles
(Tama
no Ike, p. 5).
Wu
15
Some
say nine.
353
LEGEND
and beaten by the
surprised
The
Vol.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
An
besieger.
given in
is
9.
make Chow
courtiers tried to
held the reins of the government, which the dissolute monarch had abandoned,
all their
copper
was
smeared with
fixed,
of which,
continuously
fat,
fire,
urged on at the point of the sword until they fell in the blazing charcoal
(Ehon Hokan, III., 7, where the name of the favourite is written $0. $).
When
Wu Wang
latter retreated to
and
which he
to
so great that
warriors
of
Chow
ffi
to
fatal stroke.
again in
life
flft.
horns,
feasts,
See UNCHUSHI.
TAKUJIU
the
steps in
Legend
Wang, who covered his eyes with a mask before he gave her the
Her body was burnt, and it is said by some that its ashes took
945.
Sin,
his back, a
human bearded
hairy legs, the tail of an ox, and three eyes on each flank.
face,
The
Compare KUDAN.
Gwafu
of
Yanagawa Shigenobu
the
bears
name Hakntaku
name vK
*s
lift
&, which
to the Suisei.
TAMA
946.
Jewel
-R.
also
It
corresponds
symbolic of purity
and
of
of
many
of
to
as such,
Mani
it
Gioku,
and
represented
to
the
designed as
is
of
the
more
Takaramono.
It
354
the
Indian
special
especially
receives
of
with several
and
Buddhists,
attribute of
in
Bosatsu
Jizo
Panthaka.
is
It
is
one
LEGEND
and more
of Nio-i-Hojiu,
JAPANESE ART.
IN
traditions,
was
and
lost,
inches in diameter
is
in its place
kept,
to
left
The necklace
grandmother, Amaterasu.
the latter
rarely of Shinshi,
of
Mikoto
mentioned
Shinshi,
a large crystal
no
Ninigi
of the
by
the
in
some three
ball,
for
to four
Emperor
on State occasions.
Tama
The
not
associated
is
purely
important
in
role
dragons, on the
of
legends
the
forehead
of
with
also
Raijin,
which
it
is
and
JEWEL.
TAISHOKWAN
are often
are an
attribute of
Tama and
his
in
also
is
They appear
an
plays
attribute
it
the
the
of
found
jewels
(San gioku
called
stands,
hammer.
It
Tama
with
of
etc.
an
is
other
Luck and
of
usually shown;
Gods
(Jingo),
it
and
Bosatsu
the
the
OJIN
HOHODEMI,
legend of
with
only
is
no
Tai.
or
HO-JIU
kame).
They
shown juggling
in the breath of
a clam, or are
Foxes are also shown holding the Tama, and the ball associated with
the Shishi has probably the same origin.
the globe
held under their talons by the heraldic lions has a similar meaning or a
common
is
also called
Tama, and
it
which
B.C.
set forth in
is
Pien
Ho
gave
it
first
it
to be valueless,
and
Benwa
King Shan mountains and put the stone back in its proper
In the meantime the
place, when the same eagle came again to perch upon it.
King had died, and the man went again to Court with his stone to present
it to the new ruler, and this time his left foot was cut off.
A third King came
returned to the
to the throne,
of the Palace, he
LEGEND
IN
ART.
JAPANESE
grief,
tested,
when
was
it
Bun
PIH),
of LIN SIANG Ju
offered
went
to
came
King
of Chao,
exchange
$n>
for
the
stone,
this
person advised
crafty
see
its
defects?"
the end
to
He then dropped
the hall.
of
only have
we
some
In
as
master
my
his
break
shall
versions, he
is
ransom
the
for
said
not
to pieces;
it
The King
in Ts'in!"
"Do you
stone
of the
!tl
to
back to Chao.
fail
hands
he
after
B.C.).
in
made
carved and
(Rinshojo)
cities
fifteen
Bun
which
3E (298-266
;)
last
demands.
to
fifteen
Rinsh5jo's boldness.
TAMAMO NO MAYE
947.
been
many
0)
ill,
of
and
Toba Tenno
the
advice
This
gff.
favourite concubine
dangerously
3L
Tamamo
(1108-1123).
Court
the
of
is
Once
no
Maye was
the
Emperor fell
Astrologer was obtained.
head
for
to
was not
in
to seek
far
the dark,
Tamamo
offered for
until
no
the
of
the
prompt recovery
personally requested to do
the
of
so,
the
Emperor's
Emperor.
palace,
and
Toba Tenno.
Abe caused an
general
prayers
altar
to
be
Chinese and Japanese Repository, 313, says that at the second time Benwa's fingers were cut, and
Emperor became so angry that he threw the stone to the ground, when it broke in
twain, and in it were found sacred characters the two halves were made into seals for the Emperor and the chief
astronomer, but they were lost in the sea with the Emperor Ta Ping at the time of the Mongol invasion of Yueh.
The
356
LEGEND
took
she
altar
her
JAPANESE ART.
IN
that
shape,
proper
of
white fox
She went
as
with
the
as
far
nine
tails
of
prairie
Nasu, where she was pursued and shot by the archer, MIURA KURANOSUKE.
the
a stone,
plain of Nasu,
it,
Sessho
nay,
its
death
or
seki,
very
sight
was,
it
the
in
stone,
is
said,
stone burst,
its
throwing
Legend has it that this fox, Kimmo Kiubi no Kitsune, was an old
one which had previously bewitched two other rulers, one in India and
one in China, before attacking Toba Tenno, and a popular rhyme,
embodying
this
Priest
Ando).
(Jiji
See
TOBA TENNO
In
some
Opened
ABE NO
variations
credited
is
gardens
says
belief,
wife
the
to
broken
Emperors,
by
SEIMEI.
the
the story,
of
three
by
of
erection
Abe no
the
of
in
the
wizard himself
the
Seimei,
altar
TAMAYORI HIME
948.
31
&
Hime.
us here
is
that which
associates
jjg
this
of
sister
Toyotama
Temple
of
Kamigamo,
and took
and
in
it
home.
know
soon as
as
the
would be submitted
his
birth.
house.
to
to
boy could
some
a male child.
the father of
understand what
Kamo
was
said
to
him, he
Eventually
no
Taketsumi
357
in
the
assembled
thatched
the
roof
of
the
villagers
in
his
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
him
to take
The author
invented
to
of
the
and
it
is
the poet
is
|^
f$}
of
the
!f fcf,
Vol.
is
his mother.
undoubtedly
name Kamo
myth
to
(duck)
the
V.
Hime
146.)
p.
application
See the
temple in question.
The
by
explain
the boy
present,
to his father;
it
is
found
also
Kamo Chomei
Soc.
TAMETOMO
in
girl
Jap.
$| $}
is
said
XXXIV.
to
Hojo Ki
name
of the
'}j
(see Kojiki
3t
Hfi
Tamayori Hime
47).
of
Tameyoshi
and the grandson of Yoshiiye (Hachimantaro). He was seven feet high, and
his left (bow) arm four inches longer than his right one.
As a boy he was
very violent, and in consequence he was sent, when thirteen years of age, to
949.
the
Kyushu
Islands,
Chinzei Hachiro
which
two
in
years'
y\
[0|
J$),
Tametomo, hearing
office.
of
it,
came
to Kioto with
arrow
Ito
Rokuro and
Minamoto no Shigesada
Oshima, in
Ito
in
Goro Kagetsune.
1156.
The Taira
Finally he
exiled
him
was captured by
to
the
island
of
wound soon
to the
whole
TAMETOMO
(^.)
(ff.S.T.)
TENNIN
URASHI.MA
(ir.c.,1.)
TAMAMO NO MAYE
TADAMORI
(f>.)
TENNIN
TANABATA
(ll.S.T.)
(ir.L.3.)
(ir.C.A.)
(tr.L.B.)
TAMETOMO
(A.)
LEGEND
He then
fleet.
to
retired
JAPANESE ART.
IN
his
which he
to
house,
set
He was
then
man
Kiyomori ever
three
men
of ordinary strength to
five
being
big,
spears.
bend
his
that
he
bow was
His
feared.
feet
long,
he
his life
During
and
is
and a
eight
bend
He
Hachiro Tametomo
of the full
is
shown with
usually
In
is
could
easily
the
all
living
archers of
the
period.
At the
ordeal.
if
archers.
to shoot
Tametomo
both
shot
archers
in his sleeve
He
first
own head
Shinsei
his learning,
the
in
offered to catch
hands;
stated
his
survived
could
is
and
took
did not commit seppuku, but escaped to the Liu chu islands, of
he
it
that
and
each.
1170).
it.
iron
their
and committed
fire,
arrows
simultaneously,
his teeth,
and he
breaking the
Amongst other stories there is one having reference to his intimacy with
a crane and a wolf whilst in Kiushyu
and amongst his marvellous exploits
;
in
the Liuchu
height, from
Island
recorded a
is
fall
from a
cliff
950.
TAMON
951.
TAMONTEN
pf].
See
AN AN.
^ ^ ;.
See BISHAMON.
359
LEGEND
TANABATA
952.
Herdsman.
divine
Kiyoharu, 3
Vols.,
Festival of the
$$ ^C-
See KENGIU;
book Ginka
the
also
Weaving
Princess
Zoshi,
and the
by Ishikawa
1835.
TANKAIKO
953.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
$Si
Son
S-
$|
Fujiwara family,
He went
Taishokwan Kamatari.
to
The
and the
Muge
TANKWA
954.
jH (TAN
ffi
A monk who
HSIA).
once
broke
some
Buddhist statues in the Eriuji temple at Kioto, aud burnt them to boil his
The Abbot appeared and expressed his horror at the sacrilege, but
Tankwa explained that his purpose was two-fold, for he expected to find
relics (shari) in the ashes of the image.
The Abbot thereupon inquired how
kettle.
of
only
shari
some
idols,
and there
is
Then
can
it
a story to the
A
fi UJ
priest
^$
955.
burning
owner
Taoist
this
TANSHOTAN
f|[
of
JH
j^j
also
God
He then took a
two
stick
represented
under
the
title
styles.
fire
is
to
was a
God
Tokusan Shokio.
is
is
a Buddha.
sort of
books
sacred
effect that
set before
"If your
Kobodaishi
V.).
Tankwa:
said
this
was
in
settlement of his
street,
360
Some time
bill),
and
later there
LEGEND
TAWARA TODA
956.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Jjg
He heard
and went
to revolt,
Masakado with
jj|
first
(FUJIWARA
that Taira no
picked
it
up with
him a mean
and without
fellow,
of joining
him.
settling
(940).
soon
invested
legend,
the
it
is
But the
death
of
in rank,
fertile
Masakado
off after
and
then
he had
histories
of
with
the
of Rice.
of
garb
of
He
He was promoted
He found
rice
Emperor, but
he dropped some
his fingers,
JjJ).
ff
the
councillors of
to see
HIDESATO
is
best
According to
Kara Hashi), in Omi. He found in the centre of the bridge a huge dragon,
This the hero did
leaving no way to the passer-by but to tread upon it.
without any hesitation, and as he neared the other end of the bridge he
heard himself called
dragon was
in
now
in
The
whom
the
changed.
one he asked Hidesato to help him. He was, said he, greatly threatened by
a huge centipede, Mukade, which devastated lake Biwa, his domain, and
menaced
his palace
Soon
in the night
ineffective,
human
but
saliva
is
Hidesato
wetted
fatal to snakes
the
second
and centipedes, he
saliva,
and
as
whose
bell
which was
361
later
hung
in the
and
temple of Miidera,
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
The
and
allegory
many
in
woven around
Tawara Toda
of
Sometimes
lady.
is
the side
See MASAKADO.
gifts.
TEGASHIWA
is
attributes
his
fairly thin,
or
957.
is
daughter, Otohime.
of the
the facts
$J (Ko NO TEGASHIWA,
child's
common
The
hand).
an ornamental motive.
TEI-I-SAI
958.
was
~tjr
fiji
the
wife
of
Tei-I,
from
whom
she
Her
knowledge of the fairy world and the magic arts.
husband and some of his friends tried to make her own up by beating her,
but she ran about naked, her body besmeared with mud, and simulated
her
concealed
madness, shrieking:
TEIKO
959.
know, but
Thian Chan J^ U4
C
It
TEIRAN
960.
(Ti
is
its
KIANG).
shaped
back
is
This creature
in
the
||tj.
lives
Mount
six legs,
his respect.
One
effigies,
and
it
is
when he
pole.
married, his wife scoffed at his devotion, and once went so far as
of
woman was
the
divorced and
961.
legs.
TEIREI
~J*
|.
See FOREIGNERS.
362
LEGEND
TEIREII ~T
962.
Kioto
who
fifa,
and when
was transformed
his
'TJ*
JAPANESE ART.
IN
He
into a crane.
proficient in the
thousand
years,
magic arts
where he found
people
for
away
had
more than a
He
degenerated.
is
TEISHI-EN
963.
upon a
large tiger,
and followed by
TEIZENPUKU
964.
puku was
is
jJt
fijh
ffft
Hf>
^ fa-
for
TEKKAI |H
it
his books.
boat;
which carry
tiger cubs
it,
old
man
Teizen-
an iron
in
he
that
replied
(SENSEI
5fc
^).
Li T'IEH
KWAI SIEN SHENG, one of the Eight chief immortals of Taoist lore, depicted
as a man of beggarly appearance and often repulsive face, blowing his
into
spirit
in
space
His
story
was very
mysteries
in
two
different
staff,
or
frog.
ways.
in
adopted
told
is
Gama's
from heaven or called Li up to the clouds to discourse with him upon the
sacred subjects.
master's
and
if
One
command,
his
spirit
Li
day,
as
one
instructed
did not
return
of
his
disciples
was very
ill,
to
to
commit
it
to
fire.
answer to his
in
own
When
the spirit
roadside.
The
in
the
Ressen
zen
den
(I.,
16)
and quoted by
Anderson, agrees in the main with the above, but, when the
363
spirit
of the
LEGEND
sage
not
returned,
but
had
it
had
spirit
to
had been
devitalised
which the
frame
material
his
only
JAPANESE ART.
IN
of
by the
the
only
enter,
true
TEKIRIU
966.
f|
lost.
the
967.
TEMMANGU.
968.
TEMPAIZAN
abode
last
SUGAWARA MICHIZANE.
See
ff
Michizane
of
Mountain
llj.
in
Chikuzen, celebrated
as
tree
from
its
TENAGA
J^,
usually
970.
gnomes
the
shown
fishing
TENGU
classified
in
or
CHOHI.
Long-armed
north China;
The Tengu
ffij.
the
long-legged
human-shaped
inordinate length, and the
(q.v.).
into
two
classes;
and
ordinary
creatures,
in
mythical
Tengu,
with
strong
beak,
of
called
comes to the
SAIJOJI,
He
is
or Dorio temple.
first
one
often called
that
Atago Yama.
precepts of Buddha, and in consequence he does not belong to either Heaven
nor Hell, besides which he is sick three times a day as a penance.
He is
sometimes depicted bringing food to the head priest of Saijoji.
3 64
LEGEND
The KONOHA Tengu
in the guise of a
of the
Yamabushi, but
in the
men
of clothing.
way
JAPANESE ART.
IN
depicted
Ushiwaka
Hojd Shikken,
Hokusai's
in
summit
the
found subject of
whom
of the
his
the
life
palace of
They were
better
Kurama yama.
This
towards
disposed
the
prints,
wrestling with
Benkei
in
Mangwa.
to
(Yoshitsune),
on
fencing
is
himself,
also
taught
a commonly
fancies.
lifting
Kano Moronobu
shown
rolling
their
after
a dream.
Tengu
are sometimes
this
is
called
Tengu no Tamago, the birth of the Tengu, and is frequently found as netsuke.
It is said that the Dutch unwittingly increased the belief in the existence
of the
of
an
Tengu amongst
ostrich's
in his Tour du
egg,
by the introduction
Monde
Jules Verne,
amongst strolling
already as Deus ex Machina in a work of Kosuisai, in which it is stated that
in the first year of
^=1 (Bunreki, 1234) some writing was found upon a
The famous
fencer,
it
has been
left
by a Tengu.
Miyamoto Musashi,
is
credited
a Tengu.
971.
TENJIN.
See
LEGEND
TENNIN
972.
Buddhist
a
paradise,
or
flower
lotus
JAPANESE ART.
IN
some
playing
TERUKO
973.
)la|
^ ^ Jg.
TERUTE HIME
who
enemies of Hangwan,
TIGER ^.
975.
in
is
a frequent subject in
(q.v.).
tiger
is
male
principle.
female
how
When
five
The
two
is
it
embodiment
the
is
The
of the
-f-..
fro,
especially
to
tree
art,
it
the
of
tiger
tiger
When
is
(q.v.).
Ho, or TORA,
association
brow
OGURI HANGWAN
of
she
Moon, Princess
Hangwan was
in
Wife
feather
See Hagoromo.
Moonbeam.
974.
They wear
musical instrument.
cubs,
and
is
JITTOKU),
(see
Kiyomasa
~fC
associated with the legends of Hadesu, Yoko, with the Four Sleepers
jj
with
the
Arhat
Bhadra,
977.
century).
Moon
Kato
Sennins.
BUSHO
Flowers
rain,
Snow
(third
kills
fist.
many
in the Snikoden
upon the
with
976.
and
in
the
in the mountains.
of the first
366
Han dynasty
B.C.
195).
are
Kanshin, Chang
LEGEND
978.
THREE LAUGHERS.
979.
THREE SACRED
from
the
the
of
tail
JAPANESE ART.
IN
See LAUGHERS.
RELICS.
eight-headed
NAISHI DOKORO,
which
mirror
the
necklace
the crystal
SHINSHI,
enticed
THREE
980.
and Confucius.
SAGES.
The Chinese
two
981.
Chow
Yii,
lists
TOAD
and TOAD
SPIRIT,
MAGIC.
See
the
of
stories
JIRAIYA,
TOBA
^^.
or SOSHA
ifi i$c>
The Chinese
and caligraphist
official
to
owing
but
him,
against
intrigues
reinstated
in
He
shown
the
riding on
landscape
983.
is
mule, and
Jj
Toba
of the
screen
the
of
it
is
generally
When
hat.
added,
still
in
artist,
of
Sojo
also
consists
mostly of caricatures
stallions
presented
it
to the
Toba Sojo
existence.
pupil
followers
period,
and
He was
Tobaye.
Priest
IW IE-
is
be
to
TOBA SOJO
called after
enormous
an
wearing
1086,
died in
88 (Jimtnei ]i Sho).
984.
when
TOBA TENNO
four
years
old,
J^
^ ^ J|.
and abdicated
at
367
Emperor who
twenty-one,
to
the throne
1123,
Shirakawa
rose
in
LEGEND
TOBOSAKU
985.
name from
his
and died
of affairs,
^C
~fi
in
$9-
mother
that his
the fact
Han
the
TAMAMO NO MAYE.
See
1156.
her
left
He was
ART.
JAPANESE
IN
home
who
So,
derived
a place further
for
Wu
he fostered,
Ti
with
the
known
is
to have
lived
and
him with no
less
time of Yao,
than
six distinct
be
the
Wu
He
to
is
B.C.,
Although
legend endows
embodiment
Ti.
or
human
in
dancing
or
two,
three
hugging
tightly
big
The
the
with
Emperor
each
fruit
seven
of
peaches
the
conferring upon
had
to
fairy
give
was
from
other
came back
he replied
know
of
stories
after
"
:
to
though
rarely,
told
of
left
stained
clean them,
met with
the
present
Kwen
thousand
the
to
Emperor
now
is
him
these
of
three
Once
"
:
peeping
man
stole
he
left
his
and
house
my
of
Emperor
As the
trees.
This
lun,
years
Tobosaku
noticed
she
clothes
and
then
of
to
fruit,
that
Gukan
the
tree
three
it,
growing an orchard
When
a year.
How
fully well
are
ate
came
effectively
the peach
in
her through a
Two
of
who
man who
eating one of
herself
idea
his
up
that
Seiobo,
life.
at
it
whether
one
us that
tells
sparrow,
that
known legend
best
illustrations,
368
and
went
This story
then
the
the
to
sage
The
sea
of
sometimes,
is
is
depicted,
TIGER
(/.ODIAC)
TA1KOBO
(ir.L.R.)
(II-.I..K.)
THREE HEKO'ia
(II.S.T.)
nrsHO (./.)
TOBOSAKU (,/.)
TEMMANGU
(A.)
TENGtl (ll'.l./t.)
'lOHAKKUK'.VA (ll.L.K.)
THREE HEROES
(ll'.L.f.)
LEGEND
as
Den
the Ressen
in
on
sitting
(HI.),
Wu
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Ti whether
show
garments.
lip
who was
his
true
his
disrespect,
Hoso,
strange appearance
if
washing
intend to
was
it
did not
waves
the
his
nose.
must
It
be
noted
that other Immortals have also the Peach as their attribute, Kyosenhei and
TOCHIU
DAIGIN.
or
^B:,
TOENKO
3|
One
3*.
|1J
of
of
of rice.
the
four
RECLUSE
GREYHEADS
of
that
he
TOHAKKUKWA
had
to sell
life,
for
pictures
TOKAIDO
his
living
$|
jfc
ig.
Sennin,
Ifl.
who was
so
poor
issued
the
TsitJioshi,
V.,
bridge Xihon
23).
Bashi,
Tokyo, to Kyoto (323! miles), along the Eastern shore of Japan. In olden
times this road had fifty-three stages with relays of coolies, called Jegitsan
in
and
Tsugi,
commonly
These
posting places, each forming a classical landscape, were also taken as models
by
the
landscape
gardeners
in
miniature,
who
could
not
let
pass such
mountain
Nango
This view
990.
this,
is
TOKIMASA
R$
successor of YORITOMO.
&
He
(Hojo)
his
(1138-1215).
Father-in-law
and
real
of the
Hojo by destroying
His attempt at a
second
murder
on the
established the
power
369
LEGEND
successor,
having
in plotting,
related of him.
is
story
failed,
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Before engaging
Izu.
In the reign of
of
temple was afterwards erected on the spot, and to that temple Tokimasa
went
to
Goddess
standing that
seventh
As
of a
she
of
prosperity
his
The
house.
if
generation.
partly that
the
for
life
would perish
his family
Tokimasa saw
retired
three
body was
the sands, which
that
on
scales
in the
her
had dropped from the dragon's skin, he picked them up and arranged
them as his crest.
The prophecy was fulfilled, and the Hojo family
extinguished in 1333, at the death of the ninth
second
destroyed in
Hojo
1590 by
TOKIMUNE
991.
resistance to
by refusing
started
family
in
1434 with
Ise
Nagauji,
i$
(Hojo) (1251-1284)
entertain
the
is
Khan by
spirit of
1279.
side
Khan was
of
was
of the
but
Hideyoshi.
declining to
independence in
In
1281
the
fleet
Hakata.
See RAIJIN.
Tokimune objected
him to Izu would have
made
light of his
head but
and
for
after exiling
a divine
inter-
vention.
TOKIWA GOZEN
992.
the
reign
of
In;
then
to
Taitojiu,
BI|-
The
fairest
woman
in
Japan
in
Kujo no
& ^ fP
Mekake
of
dragging with
her
37
the
three
boys;
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
KIYOMORI had seized and tortured her mother, and, going back
her
of
threw
she
enemy,
herself
his
upon
to the Court
Kiyomori granted her request on the condition that she became his concubine,
and the three boys were sent to a temple. Tokiwa and her children are
a subject often depicted; the mother
is
with one boy at her breast and the other two clinging to her torn garments.
She wears the large hat of a peasant, and her lacerated feet leave in the
snow a
One
of
the
boys,
of
Yoshitomo.
Upon
the snow, a
poem has been written, which also alludes in its name "The
Red and the White," to the distinctive standards of the two
feud of the
parties.
the
poem
my mind
993.
of
all
the
this
reads:
"When
red banner
TOKIYORI
|f
ff|
in
country,
(Hoj5)
(1227-1263).
company
of
fifth
his
Founder
Hojo
minister
monkhood, he
is
lived at
of
Shikken.
and
one,
and white,
the
temple
His
travels
Awoto FUJITSUNA,
red
Tokiwa
over the
plum blossoms,
in
See HACHI NO
are
KI.
the
high,
TOKOKEI
handsome and
pjjj
JP;
was a Chinese
sage,
seventy-seven
inches
slender,
He was fond
moles.
3X,
of music,
and
his
sound
of the
995.
lived
TOKUBEE
amongst
about 1633.
frogs.
^
He
**
lived from
(TENJIKU).
1619 to
1685,
priest.
371
mended
The
great
and
travelled
in
who
Siam
by confusion),
ways and became
(India,
his
robber
LEGEND
The Jimmei
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Ji Sho says:
in
old.
when he
India.
He came back
entitled
it
is
in
in
is
He became
known.
frogs,
and
is
means
of the
TOKUGAWA
996.
of
No Tenjiku Tokubee, he
the
In
Harima,
who
Shoguns,
f|
}\\.
Yojitsu.
The Tokugawa
1868
in
all-powerful line
family,
after
dominating Japan
leyasu, respectfully called Gongensama and disrespectfully
nicknamed the old Badger (Furu Tanuki}. Their crest is familiar, and the
Once the Dainagon HIROTADA, father
history of its design may be related.
of IEYASU, returning from his victorious expedition in Mikawa, was entertained
by
his vassal,
HONDA,
him on a wooden
in the castle of
tray,
me
as
IEYASU
He then
Hideyoshi,
||t
was born
in
estates
aivoi leaves
said:
^C
in
Some
HINA.
1542,
and
and served
Nobunaga and
under
In
1600 he defeated
were
greatly inferior in
Mitsunari.
had
to
In
numbers
to
those
of
the
enemy,
enter again
in
the
field,
in
1614,
to
led
his
by
forces
Ishida
HiDETADA, but he
crush Hideyori.
He
died in
1616 at Shizuoka, and was buried near there at Kuno-zan, but his remains
were
later
An
interesting
story of
37 2
noticed
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
once that the arrow-heads of his opponents were loose, and remained in the
ordered
He
his
four
generals
his
Sakai,
Tenno),
deeds
Sakakibara,
valour
of
his
are
li,
related,
Okubo
Honda.
is
shown
also
chief retainers.
his
left
(Shi
whom many
of
Hikozaemon,
He
of
to the shaft.
authority,
amongst
arrow-heads
the
all
is
powerful
or
that
work was
The
difference
of his predecessors
date, called
is
Nobunaga Ko
(Prince) says
literal translation of
Hototoguisu,
probably of much
if
which
is
later
Hideyoshi
Ko
if
Hototoguisu,
says:
try again
soon,
Ko
leyasu
till
you
The advent
were
in
freely
works
do.
drawn upon by
of art
997.
to
TOMENARI
them
in
of the subject
to
artist to abstain
disguise
artists.
if
Hototoguisu,
says:
men
in
(NARITA).
by some Samurai.
As a revenge, some other Samurai pelted with arrows the monks' temple,
KIYOMORI decided that the culprits
transpiercing the shrine of Hiyoshi.
complained
to
Kiyomori
that
remit
the penalty
brother of Shigemori,
his
departure
his
and
exile
was one
friends
the
of
invited
condemned.
373
to
Tomenari,
half-
the exiles,
him
Narita
LEGEND
dinner
JAPANESE ART.
IN
all of
him
offered
his hair as
a keepsake;
offer
which he considered
his
another,
for
nose;
harakiri,
general
consequences, set
Narita
leading,
to his house
fire
and
the
until
landlord,
The Gods
flew.
afraid of the
of the Hieizan
were
well avenged.
TOMI KUWAI
998.
in
Kwannon,
of
temple
gi
'IT-
Mino.
During
first
New
On
Year people congregate to the temple to pray for peace and plenty.
the seventh day each person present buys from the priest a wooden ticket,
into a sort of
upturned
name.
his
sleeves,
As the
at the tickets
at
the top;
brought up singly, he
tickets are
hails their
It
is
and KUNIYOSHI
VII.,
Jinji Ando.
TOMOE GOZEN
999.
$P fj was
the daughter of
Gon no Kami
Nakahara Kaneto, and she had the reputation of being a very beautiful as
She became the concubine of Kiso YOSHINAKA,
well as undaunted woman.
whom
at
after
She
hands.
Wada
by way
it
her
of
sleeve
war
in
He
died,
was caught by
however,
TOMOMORI.
fight
and death
she beheaded
before
WADA
the
birth
of
374
and broke
his defeat
club.
became.
up to
killed
his
leaving
right
Ujigawa.
and
Gempei
his
son,
Then
in
the
Echizen.
the celebrated
Tomoe Gozen
\\AGO JIN
TOKIWA
(H.S.T.)
(/'.)
VVATANABE NO TSUNA
(r.L.)
TOBOSAKU (,-/.)
ROKUSONNO (/;./...)
BENWA NO TAMA (lI'.L.K.)
O
"7
LEGEND
TO NO RIOKO
1001.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
& ff.
f|$
Poet, master of
Sugawara Michizane,
The
"The
air
an oni
wa
scene
laid
is
wa
Chikubu
in
The poet
shima
1002.
TORA.
1003.
TORA
(see
is
was a courtesan
somewhat
story,
TORTOISE.
1006.
TOSABO SHOSHUN
confess his
and
this
1007.
Lit.
sent
See
by
him
Benkei.
treachery,
Oiso and
of
mixed
with
the
mistress
that
of
Soga
death of Juro
the
after
of
from
secured
in the clouds.
1005.
Yoshitsune.
Bambutsu
9U,
J=,
who
In the
TORIKABUTO
Yoritomo,
shown
became a nun
She
brothers).
is
the
explaining
See TIGER.
SOGA
Her
Sukenari.
thus
(island),
was
and"*
ice
no Juro
being cleared, the wind combs the hair of the young willow";
in the
The
^N
said:
"The
and
Ki harete kaze
tree.
%j
Kamakura
Tosabo was
locate
to
party at
latter's
J|
was
and
Horikawa,
brought
to Yoritomo,
to
retainer
of
if
possible
kill
in
Kyoto,
and
Yoshitsune,
made
to
TOSHIKAGE.
Hero
of
romance described
prayer to
who was
in
Aston's Jap.
sent to
China on
trees
tiger's
LEGEND
a year, but hearing the noise
genii to
TOSHINARI
1008.
He contented
collection
first
year of
Genkyu
1$ $c (FUJIWARA) (commonly
J|
the time of
of
and died
of poems,
at
called Shunzei)
Go Toba Tenno,
son of
wooden
hibachi,
He compiled
the Sensai
in
the
(1204).
TOSHITOKU-JIN
1009.
he discovered
tree,
Wakashyu
he went
to Japan.
of this journey
for
a huge Kiri
felling
At the end
year.
men
the old
walking a whole
a host of Asuras
He remained with
then vanished.
further west,
JAPANESE ART.
IN
H;
The
f^.
images
commonly
called
God
this
designed
deity the
the
divinities
meaning attributed
to
Literature
of
laughing
TOWOKO
}|{
and emitting
Q.
-F.
from
light
^.
game
his
of
as
and as the
Chinese
it
may be
described.
ion.
was
TOYEI
j^^..
pay
for
376
of
virtue,
TUNG YUNG,
and sold
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
The
woman whom
and
pieces
|?$3
He was
who
which since
aster,
Tseh.
to
Ko
and amongst
his
time
is
named
than
greater
his
to
his
reverence
it
measures of
flowers,
He
rice.
a house
in
of
his
refused
with
office
to
lived
in front of
"
seals
P'eng
for
as eighty
toiv
sage,
Chinese
superiors,
in
The Chinese
$J{ PJ.
silk.
him.
left
TOYENMEI
1012.
who weaved
he married and
would
thereafter
retirement
in
The sage
of
the
five
willows."
five
(Shaho Bukuro.)
He
is
man
1013.
TOYO
1014.
TOYOTAMA MIME J| 3
no MIKOTO
text
(q.v.).
One
KUSHI.
She
is
$g.
as
represented
her as taking
describes
although
dragon,
after
HOHODEMI
of
the
sacred
to their
son,
she returned
shown, with a
the shore.
elsewhere:
of the
itself
sea,
into
fish tail,
to
the sea
in
She
is
thus
This return of the Princess to her original state has some parallels
it
is
said that
in
beautiful
siezed
one
her.
as
it
He
the
pelt
for
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
safety,
and returned
secreted fur
them
to
her
See HAGOROMO.
maritime existence.
to her
found
she
TOYS.
1015.
born
some are now very common on the European market, and often represent
"ghosts" (0 Bake}, with articulated limbs, protruding tongue, and movable
those which one finds most often depicted with children at
Amongst
eyes.
play are:
back;
dolls,
cloth
stuffed
Uzume,
of Hiottoko;
lolling
Puh
the third of
Hina Sama
with
the getting
strong wrestlers;
when
tan
dolls,
Dolls, the
up
Ung
little priest,
(Pusah).
On
in every
heroes and great ladies of olden times, with their retainers, their arms and
worldly
possessions,
on
displayed
of
from
Norimon
steps
according to precedence.
raised
only,
and
upon the
do
not
receive
faces,
the
whilst the
costly
Europe.
at the end
favour,
fan,
common
wood
ones are of
others.
There
in
to
of
a stick
is
is
described under
(Chie
KURUMA.
no
itd),
copied
horse's
stilts
head
are also in
As an instance
is
a story
in Hearn's
Japan of the Kirabnko, the "Jolly Old Boy" doll, made in 1540 for Gomino-o, and which slept on the Emperor's own pillow. A copy of it healed
the sick folks
1016.
by producing
TOYU
Hft
ffi,
laughter.
Chinese sage.
378
flying
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
He
the immortals.
let
TREASURES.
See TAKARAMONO.
1018.
TSAO TSAO.
See Soso.
1019.
TSUCHIGUMO
the
proof against
devised
The invulnerable
J^l jl^.
of
province
in
which
Mono-no-Funo-Michi-on-no-Mikoto,
by
Soc.
smoked
fire
could
be
who
closed
the
was
killed
was
mouth
and by means
iron net,
den.
its
It
in
of
of
Asiatic
Japan.
1020.
TSUGEN.
1021.
TSUNEMOTO
(Sixth
the
eyes,
He
Masakado.
rebellion of
autumn
|J
He was
Prince).
Emperor the
In
the spider in
it
a huge
birds.
Jimmu Tenno.
the time of
in
Yamato,
steel,
two
is
1017.
infested
be an invitation from
this event to
of
a large mouth
set
(932)
(Shaho Bukuro,
(turnip-headed arrow).
1022.
TSUNEYO SANO
TSUNEYORI
was
its
the
surface
tail
of
of
his feet
The
single
Kaburaya
retired
nobleman, hero of
KI.
wrestler.
he stopped to
Once
rest
while
under
travelling
tree,
it
strong
river,
movements that
before he could
upon the
/.)
ifr.
$f
See HACHI NO
leap
to
It
Emperor Shujaku.
a demon, sprang
like
water
wound
tried
into
red
itself
hard
around the
to
pull
legs of
him
379
into
deep,
when
large
So
Tsuneyori
the
river.
breaking
LEGEND
his
wrestler hobbled
of
The body
home
to dress his
in
On
a foot in diameter.
and part
and the
twain,
wounds.
it
the head
was found
broke
snake
the
of
of the river
act.
in the
getas
JAPANESE ART.
IN
tail
of the
tree.
and
mind,
positive
work
to
set
to
experimentally find out the strength of the snake, by having a thick rope
wound around his legs, and causing men to pull until he thought the
strain
that
to
of
strong men.
sixty
UBAGA SAKE
1024.
^r
$j|
man
drunken
In the
scorn.
falls
on
his
she
as
was wont
to
and
name, a
and that
woman looks
young man calls upon
an
old
him the
The
do.
an aunt,
of
is
face,
of that
Kiogen
J|f
It
old
taste
first
woman
in
is
it
which a
him with
at
and
his aunt,
her newly-brewed
of
it
any more to
her undeserving nephew. The young man goes away, and puts on the dresss
and mask of a devil; he comes back and frightens the woman, who gives
to
an old
him
as
priest,
much
of death.
starts to talk;
fists,
the
effect
under threats
face,
upon the
frightful oni,
who
woman,
1025.
UBUME
1026.
UJIGAWA
battles
fought on
perhaps,
>jf|.
Jlj.
It
This river
its
'/pi
Yodo gawa.
banks.
is
and takes
celebrated in history,
Amongst other
course of the
are,
Ichirai
owing
episodes,
bridge,
in
its
name from
to the
the
1180,
upper
numerous
most famous
by order
of
Tomoe Gozen.
LEGEND
The famous
JAPANESE ART.
Two
UMBRELLA.
Takatsuna
Sasaki
of
is
the
most
artists.
commonly depicted by
1027.
IN
people
depicted
an
under
or
umbrella,
a form of design
is
called
elders knowledge.
This
useful
common
utensil
in
figure
constant
companion
ff
MATSU
fe.
UMEWAKA
|$
UMI T3OZU.
with a human
length of
five
was going
back
it
after
back
in
my
kill
death,
of longevity.
Zue
(46,
t'ij
lives
in
figures,
and attains
519)
p.
j(.
the Western
Sea,
you
kill
me
shall
pay you
to Heaven.
1031.
UMIN
1032.
UNCHUSHI
3$
Sansai
it,
the sea,
went
it
finally
to
Wakan
Umi Bozu
to six feet.
head,
is
It
watchman, a
the temple
See YANAGI.
"ft.
The
1030.
tortoise
of
Emblems
1029.
usually
art.
H TAKE
UME
1028.
is
is
See FOREIGNERS.
Flying men.
J.
HJ
~1*
fff
was a
Yin (Shang dynasty), living under the reign of the tyrant Chow
day he saw in a large magic mirror (Shomakio) a fox with nine
Sin.
tails,
One
and
he concluded that there must have been such an evil creature in the royal
palace.
He went away
to the
away
this sword,
Her
But T'A Ki
all evil.
and
dissolute
(q.v.),
consort
then
it
made
her feel as
if
she
on
was dying.
that
day
LEGEND
IN
IV., 18).
UNKEI 55
1033.
who
and
His
son
UNKEI HOIN
!|$.
of BICHU,
lived
century,
is
Hoin
TANKEI,
the
fall of
artist,
ART.
JAPANESE
Owari
of
lived
the footsteps of
in
Unkei.
was himself
and
1173-1274,
statue of Unkei
from his
also
(CHOSOKUN),
who
as
depicted
in
chisel,
UNTO
1034.
is
that after
said
is
death,
The Chinese
SENSEI.
Rishi clad
in
1035.
URASHIMA TARO
One
of
long
life,
the
men who
and
as
such
As an old man,
in
with a
his
full
attained,
is
the skin of
M ^ ^C
sitting
hands, and
Hero
to
according
is
jfe.
TS'IAO).
He
to have
said
legend,
an
extraordinarily
in
(Minogame) with a
youthful appearance though sometimes
on the back of a
face
He
RUNG
HENJAKU (PiEN
beasts.
115-
usually depicted
SANG
CH'ANG
in
lived
box
his
of
tortoise
beard.
face
and an expression
of painful surprise,
As a member
of
URASHIMA was a
of the province of
tortoise,
but
crab-fisher of
TANGO.
On
woman
to
back
382
it
clinging to
take her
good-naturedly put
it,
to
who
her
back
tossed
own home.
Urashima
YOSIIIIIIKA
U11AOA SAKK
(.(.)
IV.UMK
(//.> 7.)
WATANAHK NO TSUNA
URASHIMA TARO
(U.K.)
(it'./.Ji.)
URASIIIMA
(ll.S.I.)
(.(.)
LEGEND
and
accepted,
IN
after
ART.
JAPANESE
in
the direction
indicated by
the stranger, found himself at the door of the Riu-Gu, or palace of Riujin,
the
rank
the Sea.
of
Dragon King
bestowed
princess
in
Riujin's
realm,
herself
and explained that she was no other than the sacred tortoise whose life he
had spared; she obtained from him the promise that he would come back,
and gave him a box, with strict injunctions not to open it if he really
Urashima returned
his
box,
place changed,
was
sitting at
in
come
to
Otohime's
injunction,
planation of
in
to seek
therein
sea.
Urashima
that he forgot
a possible ex-
of
that the space of time which he had thought to be three years spent in the
Riu-Gu had
really consisted of
him,
on
dead,
his
In
old
to
other
of
He was now an
is
of
now shown
at
left
Kanagawa, near
places.
later
date,
a different ending
into a crane,
and
is
reserved
soars to the
to
the
Horai-Zan
USHIWAKA
^j.
shin,
Name
of
and a translation
of
it
can be
child.
1037.
UWABAMI
^; #.
Huge
383
snake,
bigger
than
any
tree,
and
LEGEND
IN
JAPANESE ART.
man on
sometimes shown in books and prints surprising waysome of whom fall a prey to its huge mouth.
imaginary
farers,
This remarkable
horseback.
reptile
is
UYENO
1038.
_h
much
Park celebrated
or UENO.
iff,
Buddha
as for
its
its
display
of
series
long
for
of
Tokugawa Shoguns.
It
is
UYENO, REVENGE
1039.
OF
.(!GA).
vendetta.
seventeenth
century
of the lord of
Watanabe
of
of
Story
KAZUMA, retainer of
Kazuma's brother was killed by KAWAI MATAGORO, and Kazuma took the
field in search of the murderer.
He was assisted in his task by Araki, and
revenge took place in 1635, after which the two men were taken back into
sister
service
by
1040.
who
She
their lords
UZUME
and promoted
^ |H l
-fa.
Ama
netsnke,
in
Japanese
somewhat
in treatment,
figures of
the
jingling bells,
dance
she had
retired.
never lacking.
is
Full
bound around a
humorous treatment.
As an allusion
the
A o mask,
in
stick or
an arrow,
Good
She
Fortune,
is
also
Uzume comes
called
progress of
in
opposed
art,
of Mirth,
face,
or as a
rice.
As a mask
thousand koku of
is
to one
is
in
Okame and
said to be derived.
for
a great deal of
occasionally
Otafitkit.
Heaven
to
latter
Earth, she
is
same time
with her
sleeve.
She
is
often
depicted
with very scanty clothing, and with her legs bowing under her weight, or
384
LEGEND
in
mood
a prettier
JAPANESE ART.
IN
YASU.
1042.
VASU {^
with
Also called
KAZE NO KAMI.
^&.
needle-like
long,
See FUTEN.
Deva.
pointed
beard,
just
as
he
emaciated
figure
from
escaped
Hell,
VIA LACTEA.
AMA
NO GAWA.
1044.
WAGO
JIN
7^1
The Merry
jj^.
Genii, figured as
two Chinese
WAKAME KARI
^j #$
in
Nagato.
at
the
According to a popular
Dragon King parts the waters on the last night of the year
midnight, and the Shinto priests gather seaweed from the dried-up bed
the
belief,
are
jfi XlJ-
Hayato Momioji,
They
at
of
WAKA
1047.
WANG
CHIH
WANG
HI
SANJIN.
^.
The
of
Poetry
(q.v.).
van
Winkle.
See
His
original
Rip
OSHITSU.
1048.
Japanese
name
is
CHE
OGISHI.
31
He
lived
in
B.C.,
and was
sent to
WANI
5E t-
Chinaman from
TENNO
of the
He
Emperor
the
Kingdom
of
Go,
who was
embassy to
WANI
is
in
also
286
A.D.
named WANG
introduced
IN.
the
See Nihongi.
385
LEGEND
WANT, meaning
1050.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
crocodile,
name
the
is
made
is
wood and
of
used
as a temple drum.
1051.
WARM BOTOKE
1052.
WAR GODS
BISHAMOX TEX.
This
the San
is
trinity
God
WASOBIOYE
1053.
Chamberlain gave
two
God
national
War
of
HACHIMAN.
is
Daikokuten, and
man
represented as a
usually
in
5RJ
of
with three
a conspicuous
is
Trans.
Asiatic Soc.
a Japanese
of
ffi.
Professor B.
Japan a translation of
of
of its
in
figure
the
in
War, Kwanyu,
Japan
The
See FUDAISHI.
riding on a boar.
faces,
art,
1J&.
H He P.
come
the
has
following
been
abstracted.
man
learning,
to
rowed
and
he
set
looked
wind
of
for
no
were
who
which
month,
boat
his
in
off
and
threatening,
ripped
his
sail
months on the
three
island,
fishes
to
be
but
caught,
soon
led
are
apparently
whole
the
reached
streets of the
spending
he
after,
JOFUKU,
of
away
moon,
eighth
foreign
until
there
it
full
the
of
day
eighth
mountainous
In
the
the
Nagasaki,
to
tried
his
waves
of
a fair distance
to sea
and he
for
admirers
escape the
on
of
main
of
him,
city,
their
fragrance.
and he met
the inhabitants
life
in
pleasure.
The unique feature of this island was the absence of death or disease,
life was everlasting, and to many this was an unsuperable burden, which
they tried to shake
off
by the pursuit
consumption of poisonous
food,
such
386
of
as
the
globe
sprinkled
with
the
soot,
LEGEND
whilst
the
of
flesh
failed,
work
to
to
life,
increase
Land
Followers
Land
but
all
his
span
to starting
Land
the
Antique,
of
still
life
further,
He
in
Land
of
of
of
Paradoxes,
and
the
finally
the Giants.
of
His
artists
the
of
world
of the old
panacea
It
very tired of
felt
set
life-giving
having
JAPANESE ART.
IN
in
the
to
visit
their
Giants
common theme
is
used
by
presentments of Wasobioye.
After five months spent riding on the back of a stork through the atmosphere, out of the rays of the sun, through perfect darkness, he reached a country
where
shone
light
again,
and
where
the
He was
feet
high.
him
to his house
chopsticks
the
picked up by a giant
and
size
of
fed
him from a
small
tree.
the
named
single
hundreds
were
trees
men
Dr.
feet
sixty to seventy
Kochi,
grain of monster
Wasobioye
of
wondered
who took
rice,
with
that
such
big people had such scanty knowledge of the Three Kingdoms, and for a
few weeks he attempted to catechise his host in the doctrines of the old
world whence he came, but the Giant laughed at him and told him that
such a small
man
The
tale of
of Bakin,
and
it
may
also be
the
size,
moral advice.
to
in
of
1774,
and
it
of Sentaro,
by Tannaga
Shunsiu.
1054.
of
WATANABE NO TSUNA $
Minamoto
no
Yorimitsu
(RAIKO),
of the retainers
famous
deeds
attributed to
387
LEGEND
Raiko.
Rashomon,
of
ART.
JAPANESE
IN
in
whether
HO.TO
the very
town
kill
possible for
Watanabe took up
poem upon a
of Kyoto, but
it.
name and
was
it
He watched wearily
in dirty weather without seeing or hearing anything suspicious until two in
He was then
the morning, when he felt a powerful tug at his helmet.
beginning to dose
sword
at a
off,
there.
with his
wits, he slashed
terrible shriek
bound box (some say a stone one), refusing to show it to anyone. Once,
however, an old woman came enquiring for him, and said that she was his
old
Watanabe
After
nurse.
at
first
she
chat,
refused to
broached
the
of
question
the
but
arm,
He could not
however remain obdurate to her earnest prayers, and finally opened the box.
As he did so the old woman assumed the shape of a witch with the
horned face of Hannya, and pouncing upon the arm took
month
was
a message to Omiya
sent
by Raiko
to carry
own famous
in the fourth
horse,
but on the
hair.
He then drew
is
the
same as
way
usual.
his
clenched
fist,
is
is
into a
she changed
Rashomon legend
off
On
and Raiko
woman
afraid.
On
him
the
He
demon and
her arm.
lent
The end
him by the
of
the story
away.
it
often
(q.v.).
depicted
only shown
in
other cases
a small oni
upon it,
In larger work
squats
I
-
2?
<!
LEGEND
whole scene
the
is
WATANABE
a
common
in
depicted
"
word
the
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Watanabe
full,
forbidden
subject.
WATANABE and
"
hero
rid of
q.v.) is also
retainers of RAIKO.
the other
is
him, so
by the
killed
illness,
death.
to
a severe
it.
KIDOMARU (Yasusuke,
written upon
$l]
shown holding a
also
is
on
it
as follows:
of the
A'o,so
RAIKO
Oni thought
to
worry the
this
lolling tongue
this legend,
nose,
The Bakemono
could not put up with such treatment, and went away, leaving a gory track
Watanabe
behind.
started
in
and with
pursuit,
men found
his
that
the
than
six
feet
bristles like
high,
with
its
legs
Watanabe
the
barge poles
a battle-ram he
this as
Raiko recovered
like
legs
He
long swords.
of its branches;
tied
with
felled
despatched
finally
it.
his health.
is,
of course,
demons,
ogres,
the Oni
prints,
and other
malevolent
in
the
led
tenth
against
the
century.
In
creatures
they
WATANABE WATARU $
$f
(GENJI).
ENDO
See KESA;
MORITO.
1056.
NUH
HEAVENLY.
See
KENGIU.
(Shokujo).
1057.
is
WEAVER, THE
WEN, Man who
lost his
.(KOBUTORI $g J$).
"
given in A. B. Mitford's tales as
sleep in
a hollow
tree
to
The
elves
lost in
forest,
389
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
discovered.
wanted
well that
retain
to
but
him,
he
explained
that
The
agreed
to
this
a growth upon
his
would
his
try
luck
man
him
told
and went
to
his
the
story.
trysting place.
man
to dance
Perhaps the
difference,
goblins
and requested
his
of
"
is
cheek
right
the
pledge
left
men
WILLOW TREE
1058.
the
See Goodwin, Trans. As. Soc. Jap. for comparison with the
strained.
tale
Irish
it
for
$10.
1059.
WIND GOD.
1060.
\VONTNRAX
See FUTEN.
]||f
eyes
1061.
upon
of
his
LIN JIN ^t 7^
A..
transformed a
He
it.
staff,
is
whilst
bamboo cane
depicted
his
by
a blue
into
the
riverside
awe.
in
WU
into a wide
island
|f|j,
river
lined with
fisherman
flowering peach
390
whose
trees.
craft
He came
was driven
to
a small
LEGEND
They could not
Chi.
had
Chi
that
return
to
He
He
Chang-sang-yu.
be heard at night
He
is
tramping
lin
managed
jin
he
that
a famous painter of
the
round
the
of
hall
reincarnation
temple,
and
alive,
of
to
in
have
stormy
to
him
told
Wu
years.
raised
hundred
six
the place,
of
TSZE
jtH ^ (GODOSHI) was
MING HWANG (MEIKO) and said to be
time of
weather.
name
the
to find
tried
WU TAO
1062.
the
dead
been
then
him
give
JAPANESE ART.
IN
to
full of ink,
When
with a curtain.
it
contents
its
the latter
was
the wall
the Emperor,
he threw
The
is
also
veil,
of
story
curious
in
his
He was
requested
(Vol.
V.)
to
He
him
follow
and
advanced to the
could
painter never
fallen
her
whilst
as
his
to
wife,
Yakko
scullion.
chivalrous
name
is
and
^ Woman
/h
to
carry in
XVIIIth
in
he
thereafter
deeds,
MIYOSHI
1064.
inside.
came back.
as
stored
riches
YAKKO XO KOMAX $(
1063.
such
the
the
enter,
behold
Ming Hwang
before he
wall, and found the door closing upon him
landscape on the wall at once faded away, and the
to
relegated
his
vowed never
true
to
century.
and took
Her
life
real
YUKI.
YAKUSHI NYORAI
H g$
jflj
#,
the
healing
Buddha,
is
the
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Sanskrit Bhaishajyaguru.
of
its
which came
figures
name
the
gives
of
Buddha
carries
a short
YAKUZAN,
1065.
figured in the
is
divinity as
Bhechadjya
and supporting a
of contemplation,
this
It
Sometimes
bottle.
staff.
of
was
Reiyo,
wise
man who
mastered
the
him
revelation caused
Li away
YAMABUSHI
bushis are
shown
\\]
(literally
ffi.
a characteristic
in
are
of the
Shingon
name
most
(q.v.).
sect
the temple
in
more
bellicose
of
the
menace
to
time
than any
in
bands,
too
strong,
mountain
But
of the Hiyeizan
is
full
in
terrorised
became a standing
to
the officials on
much
Yamato which
392
they
related of
the
wearing
It
in the
many
and the
unfulfilled,
their convents
once
otherwise
was
monk
been
Kyoto.
and
soldier-monks of the
had
designs
Soliei,
warlike
with the
whose ambitious
soldiers
etc.,
BENKEI
The Yama-
dress,
identical
famous
warrior).
They
of a mere strip,
mountain
a basket or travelling
conch
east.
1066.
disregard
my
wishes
LEGEND
The waters
of the
Kamogawa;
At
Buddha.
Priests of
last
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Sugoroku
the convents
Nobunaga destroyed
and the
game
and shattered
YAMADA NAGAMASA
1067.
some
against
to
viceroy,
princess,
Buddha
Mount Yokokawa.
famous picture
Xlth century by
the
the
Yokokawa
(Butsu dzo
YAMANAKA SHIKANOSUKE
1069.
He became a
Siam.
in
in
of
and died
1618
in
1068.
|fc.
married a Siamese
years
On
threatening rebels.
the Sengen
rising
\\}
the
in
who,
Rigen Daishi.
as
Warrior famous
for
his
physical
[Ij
strength,
who
dzui}.
&J YUKIMORI
$J
died
in
$fc.
He was a
1579.
retainer of
Otomo
ously
ten
in
thirty-four,
is
Katsuhisa
clan,
for
years
attacked him.
with
little
success.
The
three
died
in
to
the
"third day
at
the
other strong
many
belief
the
Yamanaka
Like
war with
moon"
age of
men he
He had such
that he used
it
as
and
east
towns are
YAMATO
of
Osaka;
jft].
netsuke makers;
One
Yoshino, the
its
temples
name
of
Go
and schools
Kinai.
of
artists,
393
Its
Kyoto
principal
tsuba and
in the history
LEGEND
of
Go
JAPANESE ART.
IN
flight.
YAMATO
is
name mostly
the
Yatnato Damashi
in
the expression
to
It
also applied
is
See FANS.
of the
many
^t
name by
best known
the
is
is
A.D.).
his elder
him
sent
whole of Japan, as
1071.
(70-130
used by
and
land
the
to
of
Kumaso,
in
their
was seconded by
of
Mino,
One
by
his brother.
and four
GIMI,
and went
others,
who was
so captivated
his
a woman.
thinned
down
to four persons,
stabbed the man, whose brother was afraid and ran away.
Then
asked his murderer for his name, and received the reply:
"I
Woguna,
many
the son
of
the
Emperor."
filthy
another
him
to
He went
to
expedition,
to
the bravo
am Yamato
sent
Kumaso.
to
and managed
girl
ruler.
destroy
the
mouth
despicable
he
killed
lord
of a
of
Kawakami.
Izumo, the Emperor
Suruga, and
in
fact,
he was
LEGEND
invited to explore a
JAPANESE ART.
IN
large prairie at
the foot of
a friendly hunting party, but when he got well amongst the tall grass
He
he found that the Suruga people had set fire to the grass around him.
then used his sword, Ama no Murakumo no Hoken (one of the heirlooms of
of
the
and with
dragon),
mowed away
it
rulers.
and
killed the
Suruga
has been called Yaizu, and the sword
fire
weather
boisterous
having
met with,
been
his
concubine,
OTO TACHIBANA
HIME, threw herself into the waters, on top of eight rush mats, eight skin
mats, and eight silken rugs to appease the Deities of the deep.
There has
jumped.
woman
was not
lord,
stopped
this
the
Ashigara
pass,
felt
she remonstrated
in
and
i.e.,
On
and
was eating
Could
"at home."
that
life?
way
his
he
when a mountain
garlic
divinity waited
stem of garlic
Aziima ha ya (O,
my
wife),
has
since
upon Mount
Ibuki,
and he decided
to go
and
kill
living
kill,
whereas
it
was
really the
God
it
fry
had
The summit
hero
nearly
lost
poisonous area.
spring,
of the
heart,
He thereupon
neither
returned
living
in
and quenched
in Ise at the
395
his
thirst
He became
in
the
from the
stronger, but
He
LEGEND
was buried
at
JAPANESE ART.
IN
tomb
his
The
YAMA UBA
1072.
mountain
had returned
the hero
|lj
JL
half-woman,
genii,
half-spirit,
tomb
This
-fij.
original
is
the
generic
name
of
some
forgotten.
Yama Uba
This
jjj
is
depicted
as
YAXAGI
1073.
Willow
made
Another way
fruit,
witch-like
of
at their feet.
monkeys play
$p.
woman
a wild
tree (q.v.).
of
There
is
a curious superstition
for toothache.
of
of the tree.
of
story
role.
in
famous
the
In
Kyoto by a
(Temmangu),
The
in
also
who had
an important
been kidnapped
Kameido
priest.
boy's mother, searching all over the country for her lost son, passed
one day during the following year near a willow tree, under the branches
of which was a simple tomb, kept by the villagers.
She found on inquiry
that
it
of
her
son,
whose
ghost came
written around this legend, and a small shrine built in the avenue of cherry
Mukojima, to commemorate
trees at
YASHIMA
1074.
moto.
The
Taira were
battle of
JH
J|j.
Dan no
this episode.
was Yoshitsune
Ura.
396
(q.v.),
It
and most
of the
was followed by
the
LEGEND
^H
YASUMASA
1075.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
YASUSUKE
1076.
brother of HIRAI
kill
ffj
YASUMASA
He
(circa
(HAKAMADARE
(q.v.).
as
into a
habit
the
the
disguises
command
He
brigand.
accept a petty
to
snake.
he desisted from
Raiko,
flute,
1077.
YASUYORI
in
whom
was
hide
bullock's
he wanted to
Jjfl
kill,
by the retainers
by the roadside,
and legend again
killed
He
is
^L-
j|f
ff|,
exiled
through
political
intrigues
to
the
desert
his
Finally he
this
of
fame by becoming a
animals, and legend has transformed
of
skins
HAKAMADARE
is
HI)
refused
of
1036).
Retainer
Xo).
YASUSUKE, attempts to
HIRAI -^
(FujnvARA
of
1078.
men
of
YEDO (TOKYO).
They were
ft
five
A :%
^
idle
The
individuals,
five
all
chivalrous
dressed alike,
They
times,
trials.
and
of
flute carried
either
an
talking
OTOKODATE,
competing
i.e.,
an
in
of olden
physical
organisation
of
persons not necessarily reputable, but brave, ready to help one another by
every means in their power, including sword-play
had a
such,
are
chief,
the
well
known.
of
needed.
Each Otokodate
names
if
397
LEGEND
IN
ART.
JAPANESE
group
YEMMA
1079.
YAMA
is
YEMMA DAI O
or
as
with
youth
fierce
over the
lips,
in
some
these panels;
Yemma, made
a wood carver.
made
two
the other,
tells
in
us
and
figures of all
the
assessors,
But
shown with
this
Hell,
dzo
face,
he holds
is
not
in
the
man who
by a
in
he passed to Hades,
and carve a
of
temple
now
told
is
statue
had
state
earthly
Yemma
;
him:
been
"You have
And
the
man was
Yemma
of
and
side
right
Enoshima
his
me
of
He judges
it.
gilt
His headgear
scrolls or tablets.
Sun on the
the
of
is
that
1300
When
of
cast
to
emblematic
is
Hearn
effeminate
black.
rather
of
In the Butsu
cases one
Moon on
five
expression,
consists of a tiara
of the
common
The King
% 3.
|gj
staff
of
Burihei.
TEN,
depicted
consists
dziti
SHIRANAMI
called
is
are held,
when
all
On
the
apprentices
When Tokudo
honours by
Yemma, who
because people
on
the
told
him
it
that hell
that he
was
know
of
full
He
said
the
if
list
and
his
398
own
seal.
The
corpse of
Tokudo
LEGEND
came back
to
JAPANESE ART.
IN
life
seal
to
to the effect
is
that,
through a mistake
the
in
writing of the Book of Fate, by which a 13 had been altered to 33, the
second
Emperor
the
of
T'ang
dynasty
was
refused
by
Yemma when
he
Yemma
no
Shiwokara,
popular
YODO GAWA
common
fairly
walls of which
are
The Yodo
)\\.
Gawa
fe
by
with
river,
triangular
windows;
this
is
YOJO
JAXG.
1081.
Jfj
The Chinese Yu
H|.
of Tsin,
Yemma O
Kamo Gawa.
with the
subject consists of a
pierced
illustrated
woman.
1080.
expression,
fell
castle,
the
called
the
Chu
(Cho j5shi), who had his skull "sawn, lacquered, and used
as a drinking cup.
YOJO decided that he would avenge his master.
Once
he nearly killed Chu Bujutsu, but was caught and pardoned. Again he tried,
Bujutsu
jlH |H
flfiL
himself
disguising
as a
leper.
He concealed
and
would have stabbed the King but was stopped by a soldier. Chu Bujutsu
refused to kill him, and then YOJO, overcome by his generosity, begged him
him
to throw
his
sword as a token
He then
of his revenge,
rent the
live
Chu Bujutsu
year.
YOKIHI $|
1082.
jf;
#g.
depicted,
occupation.
playing
the
The Chinese
Hwang
(GENSO,
q.v.),
absorbed
or
flute
lady,
in
with
whom
is
she
girl
as
wise
to replace his
399
ruler,
gave
way
favourite concubine,
to
who had
a
violent
who had
just
LEGEND
He
died.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
let
made
of
companion
to
is
Ngan Lu Shan, an
until
The Court
chariot,
of the presence in
Heaven
but was
fled,
according
fact,
of his favourite in
He
by a
is
riches
an imperial
revolted.
Emperor,
who
There
senseless
debauchery.
erstwhile
to
Rishi,
the
romance,
in the clouds.
Kon
Tsiyo
Uta
Leyden
(MSS.,
No.
Library,
728,
YOKO
1083.
When
fourteen
U|
years
'fjf.
of
filial virtue,
He
who was
of
in
YANG HIANG
is
to have been
said
the
mountains,
There
version in which
YANG HIANG.
is
another
YANG
the daughter of
Nanking- Hien, and to have escaped after her father, her devotion
being recognised officially with a pension to her father and an inscription
TENG,
of
YOKO SENNIN
own shadow,
The King of Go
destroy his
flames.
-fa
divide his
tested his
own
body, and
in
live
to
the midst of
and himself
setting
to them.
1085.
archer
and
After all
YOR1MASA
poet,
son
$f|
of
jlrfc
(MINAMOTO
NO), or
Nakamasa and
GENSAMMI
fifth
$.
Famous
descendant of RAIKO,
400
jEi
Nimpei
who
(1153), in
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
the fourth month, a strange animal was noticed on the roof of the palace,
and
it
KONOVE
it
when he heard
his
bow and
tiger,
the end of
its
was
tail
of a
like a
is
tail
of
it.
The
it
Emperor
with his
it
verse:
Ii
no Hayata
Shippo
...
Kuitsukare
means that:
Ii
atama
ni
the serpent
tail
of
the
artist.
the
Cuckoo
(q.v.).
He was
at once
full of
ambition,
Ko no
shita ni
Shii
wo
hi route
Shii,
am
picking
shii
under a
rank
tree."
% 5l t4
He was then
by Kiyomori, and
"Not
of
is
Gensammi.
seventy-five in
the temple Byodoin, near Ujigawa, after the defeat of Prince MOCHIHITO at
that battle
(1180).
401
AA
/,
LEGEND
IN
ART.
JAPANESE
Umoregi no
c*
">
T
j
-i
Y^
^
Aware
)*
)
nari keri,
how poor
tree
YORIMITSU
1086.
fireflies,
MIXAMOTO
-$t,
fft,
is
According to
fruit."
its
burning with
See
xo.
spite.
RAIKO,
SHUTEXDOJI,
YORINOBU
1087.
castle
of
Chiba (Kazusano),
in
second expedition,
He owed
his
heir,
He
castle (1030).
is
usually
of
fifth
3f,
Yorimitsu
of
son
of
(Raiko),
watching
depicted
arm
the
of
which at low
men
to storm the
YORITOMO
half-brother
||
ff
brother
younger
of a shallow passage
1088.
in
KAMI
xo
KAI
tt-
YOSHITSUNE;
$f|
lj$j,
his
MINAMOTO
xo.
name
child
Son
was
of
YOSHITOMO and
IMAWAKA.
When
his
mother, Tokiwa, placed herself in the hands of Kiyomori, in 1159, the victor
sent
in
flee
him
in exile to Izu.
1181, started
from
Ishi
KAJIWARA
became
He was
of
Kiyomori
obliged to
tree.
One
of
pursuers,
with his
Oba Kagechika,
his
In 1180 he escaped,
and
is
402
life
there,
frequently
illustrated.
him
KAGETOKI
as a
fierce-
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
He was
of Yoshitsune,
Yoritomo,
Yashima
In
(1185)
at
settled
however,
Go TOBA TENNO
those
death.
life,
of
story
in
his
flying
and
persecution
the
after
from the
legs of
battle
of
Emperor.
the
after
enemy
See YOSHITSUXE.
himself.
and
Kamakura,
the principal
of
fly
Akanuma
labels, requesting
He
them again.
thus
his
half-brother
will
be
found
under Yoshitsune.
Yoritomo
died.
fell
He was
from
his horse,
in
1200, at
large head.
During
YORIYOSHI H|
1089.
of Mutsu,
revolt
no
eki.
in
failed.
jjj%
great hardship
to
his
ABE NO YORITOKI, a
known under the name of Zen-ku-nen
of the province
month
of
is
1052
he offered a prayer to the Gods, and, striking a rock with his bow, a clear
The same
story
Ti (104 B.C.).
Another episode of the nine
years'
by
The pursuer
called to
is
war
is
kwang
is
li,
Koromo no
tate
Hokorobi ni
403
time of
wa
keri,
Wu
ABE
in the
his life
LEGEND
which, as a play under
Koromo has
wo
Kuru
ABE
replied:
heshi
shisa ni,
Another
confusion."
into
cast
is
is:
wo
Toshi
Mono
"They have been long exposed
1090.
In 485, according to
who
KOSAGI,
feet
some
usa
ni,
to trouble."
^%
YORO NO TAKI
heshi
no midare no
Ito
is
high,
(in
$|
its
legend of
filial
piety.
scanty
earnings,
found himself so
He
poor that he could not even continue to give sake to the old people.
sat
of
fortress
no midare no
Ito
in
"The
either
Toshi
version
ART.
JAPANESE
the
"The
fallen" or
IN
down
in
despair,
bewailing
his
poverty,
he was going to
as
fill
his
gourd with water from a neighbouring spring, but the Gods took pity upon
is
lying
is
depicted
on
the
ground, whilst
him on the
rank watches
noble of high
Tenno
a rejuvenating spring.
(717-723),
in the
district,
in
Mount Tado.
It
hair,
thereafter
name
Takigori
(715-
of the
was
called
Yoro no Taki.
to
But
it
is
Yoro on account
of the event.
1091.
YOSHIIYE
of YORIYOSHI.
1042,
was
the son
God
of
JJK
0j
(MIXAMOTO
404
NO),
born in
War,
YORITOMO HUNTING
YORITOMO HIDING
YASUM'KE (H-.I..R.)
YOSHIIYE AT NAKOZO (il.T.)
(.l/.(.'.)
(M.G.)
YOKO
(./.)
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
after
his
wife
who was
then
Hachiman."
YOSHIIYE'S name-changing festivity (Gembuku)
is
still
YOSHIIYE
the
is
hero
of
many
Once
(q.v.).
some
adventures,
in
of
which
are
also
the
some wild geese suddenly change the direction of their flight just as they
were ready to alight, and suspecting they had flown over a trap his enemy
had
the
lie
won
"
:::
day."
He
is
often depicted
on horseback amongst
occurrence
the
Fuku kaze wa
Xakoso no
Omove domo
Michi mo
seki to
1
senichiru
*?
Yamazakura kana.
"At
the gate of
Xakoso although
armour.
of
archer,
PI is
bow
was very
sick,
and capable
is
said
life
of the
To him
which
see
i;!
indicates
is
to
of
why
YORIYOSHI), and
(see
in
1096,
in
when
the rock
his
father
of wind,
'
there
Emperor
also
in
this
illness.
It
is
way.
Koromogawa,
for
YORIYOSHI.
if
an ambush.
45
s>
'
LEGEND
After the defeat of
JAPANESE ART.
IN
Kiyowara Takehira
Dewa
in
(after
is
/.).
the Yoroi
called
ferry,
since
or
river,
armour
It
is
called
but has
the Yoroi-ga-Fuchi,
river.
YOSHIKA.
1092.
size.
still
(q.v.).
H it
YOSHIMITSU
585.
Yoshimitsu noticed a light shining through the water, and was guided
by
in his discovery.
it
in the
It
temple Zenkoji
is
-$fc
^p
(the
YOSHIMITSU fH ^,
1094.
of Shinran Miojin,
he
left
of Yoshiiye.
Ku
nen
war
Kioto to help his brothers in the Three Years' War, and defeated
called
secret
of a certain
He
is
whose son was quite a boy, but when the boy had grown up he ran after
Yoshimitsu and met him in the Ashigarayama, where he begged him to
He was also famous
Yoshimitsu acceded to his wish.
teach him the tune.
for
his
Ogasawara school
1095.
of
knowledge
of
and
horsemanship,
f^ (Kiso
jj^
born in
1154;
^,
he
JURO GENJI
invented
Go Toba,
jj|).
and
the
Court etiquette.
YOSHINAKA
archery
brother of Antoku.
406
after
He
victories
Warrior of
1180,
defeating
which Yoshinaka
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
very powerful, and he became obnoxious, and having been slandered to the
where he was
(1184),
One
his
of
well-known
killed,
deeds
men
the
is
in
He
1183.
Kurikara, on Mount
of
battle
summit
of the
KOMAX.
who
him
sent
in the
was
Shinano,
all
his
ran
soldiers
was
Yoshinaka.
Munemori.
side of
away with
instead of killing
warrior,
to die lighting
old,
this
the
at
exception of
his
At the
Hokuraku,
thirty men.
his costly
for
He
monkey
in the
1096.
Yamato,
of
he
white,
depicted in prints
killing
a white
mountains of Kiso.
YOSHINO
celebrated
Go Daigo
Yoshinaka
Kiso
now
in
for
the
|f.
its
Mountainous
warlike
fourteenth
district
monks and
century.
407
In
for
in
the
the
province
of
enforced sojourn
modern times
it
has become
LEGEND
famous
abundance
for the
JAPANESE ART.
IN
with which
its
valleys are
filled.
YOSHIOKA ICHIMISAI
1097.
See KIICHI
^.
Ijfc
|3l
HOGEN;
also YOSHITSUNE.
He continued
found
HH
YOSHIOKI
1098.
Go Daigo
with
himself
(NiTTA ff [H)
such a small
dramatised
army
that he
had
to
fly
Yaguchi
no
version,
the
Jinrei
kill
to
According
episode of Yoshioki's
depicted
his
was now
retainer,
to
pretended
repent
life.
with
of
his
the
if
he attacked
and a number
let
be
himself
his
men,
is
and
own
him
offered
as
an attendant a
told
Ukyo
daughter.
him
desert the
Ashikaga cause.
to
with
fall
When
in
that
soldiers he
who would
persuaded
his
Watashi,
treachery,
Musashi.
into
this,
Yoshioki
and he
boat waiting for him, and embarked, but the bottom of the boat had been
drilled,
on
and
in the
banks
the
arose which
the legend,
rained
dispersed
arrows
the Ashikaga,
it
many being
thereafter
erected
killed
enemy
in
ambush
storm suddenly
by lightning, says
YOSHISADA
ff B9
100.
YOSHITAKA
f!| fgj
had
sent
him as a hostage
M.-
(SHIMIZU xo KANJA).
Son
of Yoshinaka,
who
to
to
a story
is
YOSHITOMO
titles
his
to
love
fame, but
of
natural
LEGEND
scenery.
One
Fuwa no
Seki.
in
night,
The
1470,
JAPANESE ART.
IN
work repairing
which had made
them
more
recived
"improvement" he ordered
this
When
the Shikken.
to
attractive
be turned
to
other way.
the
YOSHITOMO
102.
Yoshitomo vanquished
the
to
promotion
$ji
fjf|
father
his
The
in
Sama
of
post
J^j
1156,
no
Kami
he gave him
to
latter refused
from
refuge
the
the
first
beheaded Tameyoshi.
was
Kiyomori, and
Tadamune,
Shoji
in
1 1
Masaiye,
He took
defeated.
refuge
He was
Kamada
in
killed
house of Osada no
the
by
his
own
kerai
and
60).
1103.
warriors
YOSHITSUNE
Old
of
third
son
when
his father
of
was beaten.
his
H $g
$|
The
flight
of
his
of
in
most famous
Yoshitomo and
1159 (Heiji
i),
name.
of the
as he
fate
was then
has been
called)
was
sent by
409
in-
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
He
wrestling,
who
in legend as
usually described
life is
often
is
depicted fighting
1180 (Jisho 4) he
of the
In
BEXKEI).
(see
in
Izu.
sent
which
time
in
the
the
place
the
In
Kagesuye.
fortified
took
of
fled
to
sea,
and
at the
of
back
of
it
was
YOSHIXAKA, at
of
Kiyomori,
The
castle
mountain
the
of
was
1183 he
In
the
of
ICHINOTANI,
Tsukushi (Kyushu).
had
the rebellion
mustering an
in
Gawa.
the Kise
quell
crossing
Gempei war,
castle
to
Hidehira, against
who was
army
left
Ichinotani
of
pass,
which was so steep that even apes were said never to descend
it.
Yoshitsune led his troops to the top of the mountain, from whence the
full
gate of Ichinotani, whilst Noriyori forced an entrance at the front with the
broke open the front gate under a hail of missiles from the besieged.
in this
Three
down the mountain side. The Taira were crushed their leader, Satsuma
no Kami Tadanori, almost escaped, throwing down Okabe Tadazuni, but
was beheaded by a Minamoto after his sword arm had been cut, and was
;
Taira
who managed
to escape
poem
went
in
The
given.
story
of
Besides
had
i)
The remainder
Yashima
the
of
(1184, Juei
2).
to wait.
the battles
the
dress.
to the castle of
his
Hasso
of
Tobi,
or
jump
(q.v.),
410
of
the
eight
boats,
also
been
by which
Tsugunobu,
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
TADANOBU
should
(q.v.)
be remembered in
also
Other
of
battle.
this
Gon no
dropped his bow in the water, and he tried to recover it.
Kami KANEFUSA reproved him for exposing himself needlessly to the shafts
fray,
of the
bow
but
enemy
of
I
all for
uncle, Hachiro
my
Tametomo,
would leave
is
it
for the
"Were
enemy
it
the
to see,
this one."
At the same
who were
sakaro
battle
(i.e.,
who
and Kagetoki
Yoshitsune
wild hogs).
(like
retreat,
felt
deeply insulted,
and although much younger than Kagetoki, replied that he would rather
himself be a hog than a coward, and that those who were afraid of death
had
drawn swords;
the
ships
sailing
without
was
until
sail
threatened with
lights,
with
fishing-boat.
YOSHITSUKE
then
is
said
to
have
YORITOMO
discovered
Bukuro,
by
sent
TOSABO SHOSHUN
Benkei,
and
the
to
kill
attempt
him
failed.
at
Yoritomo
enemy, YUKIIYE.
According
to
the
is
also current:
Shaho
to
be
Tosabo
pretended that he was not an emissary of the Shogun, but merely a pilgrim
to
of
let
off,
at night
LEGEND
captured, and
He was
was
Yoshitsune
his
Tosataro,
back
son,
Rokujogawa and
to
tracked
was caught
cousins,
killed
He
flew
the
From
Yoritomo.
to
half-brother.
his
by
was
his
Iwogoro
They escaped on the road to Sogo, but Tosabo
brought
again,
Kamakura and
reached
him
with
was caught
JAPANESE ART.
IX
others
that day
by boat,
and
in
in
it
His
in
flight
mountains
the
Yamabtishis
devoted
TADAXOBU.
He
to
hands
of
but
Yoritomo,
had
then
of
he
part from
to
was saved by
his
the
Shizuka
niekake,
heroism
of
who
Homku at
(q.v.),
the
latter
ment
for
The
name
little
band went
to
seek
refuge at
by Benkei.
of contributors carried
Takatachi,*'
their hospitality.
list
is
to the
closely linked
is
find
Koromogawa,
in
the castle of
latter
Yoshitsune, his wife, child, and retainers either were killed or committed
suicide.
succeeded in
name
reaching
this
Yezo,
of
Gikyo Daimiojin.
Another version makes him
(Karafuto),
and thence
go
from
Yezo
to Mongolia, to reappear as
to
the
present Sakkhalin
Minamoto reading
also
this
GEN, Yoshi
Hence the
title of
412
LEGEND
representations of Yoshitsune
Amongst popular
his
of
trial
Tomomori,
He
an
with
strength
Kumasaka Chohan,
brigand
JAPANESE ART.
IX
oni,
his
and
fight
may
his
board
on
be further mentioned
with
ship
the
of
ghost
etc.
be found such a
tree;
a robber breaks
if
set
a twig of
for a
maple
tree in
he shall
forfeit
one of
up
it
wo Kiraba
Isshi wo Kirubesshi.
Buddhist
however, calls
temple
plum
Naniwazu
I
"This
of
the
it
it
ni
ma wo
helmet,
in
some
Shaho
Bnkuro,
warm
often
cases he
now
unfolds and
numberless;
The EJwn
Ichinotani.
garden of
tree of
Naniwa/.u as the
Yoshitsune's
nelsitke.
tree in the
flower,
flourishes at
at
Suma,
was a cherry
isshf).
is
life
is
found
in
retainers.
The Nippon Hiaku sho den (The Hundred "Warriors) says: "Whenever
he fought he won a victory: since ancient times no warrior superior to him
has
lived
surpassed
in
Japan.
KAXHAKU
a general as the
Vlth century
(2)."
(i)
B.C.),
He can be
strategists,
better
Library,
have
equalled
one than
(2)
KAXSHIN
SOXGO
lie
was
of
(Illrd
SHU
and
(i)
as
good
(in
century
the
B.C.)
B.C.).
to
famous
and a
said
many
extensive
4*3
Museum
LEGEND
YOYUKI H|
1104.
He
of So-O, of So.
and won
fjj ;|fc
JAPANESE ART.
IN
was a warrior
of the Suite of
Shukugo, vassal
in
a hundred
shots,
of
the
his
Shogun).
The Prince
life
of Tsu,
of
SHINKO,
Yoyuki, caused
shooting a wild
indicated by
his
encompassed
its
the position
goose,
of
cry.
YU
1105.
who began
to
in
reign
He
predecessor.
JH (THE GREAT).
~fc
is
2205
B.C.,
(q.v.).
after
Imperial robes,
and a
decorated with
rock,
left
He
thumb
in
a symbolic
in
hand the
right
gesture,
and carrying a
own
He
progeny.
SHAX
is
sceptre.
1106.
YUEN TSUXG
MING
HWANG
called
Genso Kotei.
1107.
1 1
08.
GENSO),
(see
YU JANG.
YU
KI
of
j;||
generally
See YOJO.
$|.
One
King Hiang
women
Yii
3f|
^,
of Tsu,
own
throat.
for
his
into the
414
She
of China.
camp
pommel
she cut
of
his
\
-A
LEGEND
JAPANESE ART.
IN
seeing the reflection of the dead face in the water, shied and threw him;
YUKIHIRA ^7
nog.
No
to a
allusion
in
play,
in prints in
exile
his
in
Suma, two country wenches, Matsukaze (Wind in the Pines) and Murasame
Upon that episode, which takes place in the bay of Suma near
(Shower).
modern town
the
girls
Kobe,
water
salt
bringing
1 1
of
YUKINRO
10.
in pails).
jjlil^Jl.
He was governor of
He concluded
pain in his heart.
KI'EN LOW.
a
felt
deadly
sick.
he
ill;
The physician
also
is
bitter he
might
some
lived
set
told
Yukinro
if
taste sweet,
who
life
live,
He
father's.
is
said
have
to
his
life
in
lived
tasted,
might
the Yth
century A.D.
The
~i.
She
old
woman
san,
in
Yabumura, dedicated
to
Yabu
to the
at
priests
receive
The
how
late
a boy,
yet
it
is
jinja, shrine
God
the
to the shrine
a gohei
and
The
a shower
Kaze no Kami,
of colds
than
taller
snow,
in
rises
of the
floor
like
first
sick
week
of February.
whom
*
Onna had
the Yuki
Kaze no Kami
is
another
name
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Wind God.
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never
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married later a
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the story.
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elder brother,
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still
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in
front
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down
evil,
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and compelled
it
custom
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the figures of
is
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placed
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rain
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kill
rise
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then
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that
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priest
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and
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prevent
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poem which
for a
in
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under his
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placed.
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1115.
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or
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carries
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member
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of
orthodox way.
in the
ZOCHO
1116.
considered as a
not
is
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of
ZKXKI
1117.
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servitors
of
summit
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priest,
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mountain as a hermit.
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for servants,
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the APE.
the COCK.
the BOAR.
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animals
in
respectively,
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are
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figured
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name
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cycle,
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years,
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its
previous duration.
when
other
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reference to
the Tori
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occurred
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figures
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name
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419
of
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sons
of
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His
BIBLIOGRAPHY
V
.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ix
the
following pages a
information
the
in
list
is
Japanese
given of
language,
the
chief
of
which can be
those
of
especially
sources
illustrated
European languages bearing more specially upon the history and folk-lore
of Japan, or containing illustrations of works of art likely to prove of
interest, from the point of view of subject.
in
Obviously, these
ground to be
in
lists
Library
Duret's
(Th.
South
the
books
Kensington
Collection),
but
cover
they
the
Museum,
Bibliotheque
and romanization
the titles
the
to
school,
issued
lack of uniformity
in
Nationale
etc.
the
the transliteration of
subjects, originally
book
is
Art
de Rosny), the
be found
Museum, the
British
the
enough
in
of
sets,
prints
in
depicting
historical
or
legendary
would require a
itself.
prints
and
Burlington
Catalogue
Japanese
of
list
the
of
the
Hayashi
Collection,
Hayashi sale
(1907),
423
the
Barboutteau
would prove
Collection,
useful.
the
The same
LEGEND
may
JAPANESE ART.
IN
women and
the use of
deal
of
information, but
popular
illustrated
to
relatively
find
their
way
to
Europe.
JAPANESE WORKS
DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS.
I.
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81
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SAXSAI
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SETSUYO
MUJIXZO,
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NIHOX GWAI
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NIHOX
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NIHON
1750,
reprinted 1874.
HISTORY.
SHI,
vols.
1780.
popular encyclopedia,
by Matsugawa Hanzan
JAPANESE
II E&
encyclopedia, by Tachibana
^C
f?f1
reprinted since in
10 vols.
II.
B^
Encyclopedia,
size.
2 vols., illustrated
^C
Japanese
1789.
till
DZUYE, Sinico
by Rai Sanyo.
Ki,
popular history.
1856.
RIAKU
SHI,
abridged
history,
Tokio,
1874,
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Yedo.
1876.
the
great
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HEIRIX.
10 vols.
TSUZOKU
of
the Mongols'
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of
50
vol?.
1580.
history of
China up
to the
Ming
1773.
SAXKOKU
SHI,
BIOGRAPHY.
the
in
vols.
Icm SHIRIAKU,
III.
A 45
names
1867.
2Ji
by
B- Ni
;&>
Tokugawa,
20 vols.
dynasty.
1839.
I26o.
Japan.
Sin
NIIIOX
the
of
Genealogy
1878.
history of Japan.
2Ji
of
vols.
by Yamada Shiuran.
trans-
and Klaproth.
Yasuzumi Satoru.
W> JH ~T 3L
the
of
1905).
ZEXKEX KOJITSU,
Japanese,
1900, in
20
ii
by Kikuchi Yosai;
reprinted
small volumes, including supplement.
vols.,
425
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1804.
of the
Minamoto, by
vols.
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Osaka.
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1826.
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Kino
by
1799.
4^
8vo.
vols.
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Life
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of
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vols.
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1818.
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426
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1805.
1841.
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also:
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5 vols.
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Japanese warriors.
1696.
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10 vols.
1716.
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WA
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1857.
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TSUKI
Jffe
famous
Reprinted 1844.
upon
NO
1
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KUMASAKA,
story
of
and warrior's
Kumasaka
poetry.
Chohan.
780.
story of
Kusunoki Masashige,
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GUXKI,
of
Toyotomi
20 vols.
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Osaka (Bunkwa,
festival at
Temmangu
^ ^
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ISSHIU,
BUXE, NIXGYO
O.MUKAI
J&
vols.
Hideyoshi.
30
1809.
EHOX
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stories
of
heroes,
1752,
3).
vols.,
by
3 vols.
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by Hishikawa Moronobu.
History of Michizane:
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1795.
K\VANKE JlTSUROKU.
vols.
3 vols.
1798.
1746.
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Jo KAN..
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428
1841.
MUSHA KURABE,
Tsukioka Tange.
1836.
6 vols.
1661.
KoJO OSHIYEGUSA.
women
18 vols.
stories
vols.
of
1766.
valorous
women, by
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1762.
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Chinese
1651.
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stories.
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1792.
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1782.
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EHOX
JIKISHI
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Ressen
Zenden was published in nine volumes in 1650:
original
and completed by the editor, WANG YUNG PANG j- 32 Jjj.
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dances,
IN
etc.,
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1839.
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vols.
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1696.
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1824.
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KASHO
Ki,
1687.
vols.
Tanji.
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vol.
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vol.
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1705.
vols.
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1864.
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SHINJITSUDEN,
History
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Nichiren.
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1816.
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GODENKI,
History
of
vols.
43
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Holy
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of Prince Shotoku.
1666.
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VI.
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SEIBUX,
vols.
of
ancient
myths,
by Hirata
1879.
curio collection.
CHA xo Yu.
CHA xo Yu ROKU SHO SHIODEXKI,
of Cha no Yu.
6 vols.
1702.
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1649.
Ki,
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No
DZUSHIKI, the
illustrated.
theatre.
1665.
1715.
vol.
vol.
tyft
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1860.
vols.
1779,
BUKURO,
Ghosts),
Ghosts,
by Tori-
collection
by T.
S.
of
Toyo-
Ki,
Hosai.
according to old
1775-1805.
the
nocturnal
IS
1784-1805.
vols.
DZURE
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GWA ZOKU
modern
ghosts.
Demonology,
subjects
Yedo.
fusa.
of
tales
travels
1776-81.
Supernatural Beings
3
43 1
vols.
1811.
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and
the
hundred
6 vols.
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Illustrated
1784.
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VIII.
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jlrf
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SOSHI
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5 vols.
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Folk-lore, J.
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(2-3).
Chicago.
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Paris.
1887.
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La
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ART.
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San
Japan.
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FERRAND, C.
Le Para vent de
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1903.
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1901.
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1902.
1895.
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in
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,,
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1900.
1900.
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1904.
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NETTO
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&
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LEE.
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WATTERS, T.
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PAPINOT.
1894.
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sects.
1886.
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1899.
1871.
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POETRY
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AND
igoi.
etc.
1906.
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MAC CLATCHIE.
JAPANESE ART.
IN
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versified.
CHINESE INFLUENCE.
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J.
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1906.
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1889.
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la
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,,
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S.
its
Art.
London.
1893.
Japanische Kunstgechichte.
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Sir
J.
J.,
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