Ancestor-worship and Japanese law /
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| Author / Creator: | Hozumi, Nobushige, 1855-1926. |
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| Imprint: | London : Kegan Paul, 2004. |
| Description: | xxxi, 205 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Kegan Paul Japan Library Kegan Paul Japan library (Unnumbered) |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5609525 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Ancestor-worship in Europe and America
- Ancestor-worship in Japan
- Influence of Confucianism
- Influence of Buddhism
- Influence of Western civilization
- Present state of Ancestor-worship
- Part I. Ancestor-Worship in General
- Chapter I. The Origin of Ancestor-Worship
- Theory of the dread of ghosts and ghost-propitiation
- Opinion of Lord Avebury
- Opinion of Ihering
- Extension of filial love
- Treatment of the aged
- Opinions of Chu-hsi and Kurita
- Two kinds of ghosts
- Lares and larvae
- Confucius on filial piety
- Henry Irving as Hamlet
- Opinion of Dr. E. B. Tylor
- Love of ghosts
- Chapter II. Ancestor-Worship as the Origin of Social Life
- Conscious aims of association
- Unconscious force of association
- Consanguinity as a bond of union
- Extension of love and sympathy to distant kinsmen
- Worship of the common ancestor as centripetal force
- Whether Ancestor-worship is a universal institution among primitive peoples
- Opinions of Tylor, Maine, Coulanges, Hearn and Steinmetz
- Part II. Ancestor-Worship in Japan
- Chapter I. Three Kinds of Ancestor-Worship
- Two sacred places in the Japanese house
- Worship of the Imperial Ancestors
- Worship of clan-ancestors
- Worship of family-ancestors
- Chapter II. The Worship of the Imperial Ancestors
- The First Imperial Ancestor
- Three places of worship
- The Divine Mirror
- The Great Shrine at Ise
- Pilgrimage to the Great Shrine
- The Three Temples in the Sanctuary of the Imperial Palace
- The Imperial House Ordinance relating to Festivals
- Great Festivals
- Small Festivals
- National holidays
- Chapter III. The Worship of Clan-Ancestors
- Three classes of the Japanese people
- Clan-names, uji and kabane
- Meanings of uji and kabane
- Great clan, or o-uji
- Small clan, or ko-uji
- Clan-god, or uji-gami
- Festival of the clan-god
- Change in the meaning of the word uji-gami
- Uji-ko, or "children of the clan"
- Chapter IV. The Worship of Family-Ancestors
- Three periods of home-worship
- "Seventh-day services" among Buddhists
- "Tenth-day services" among Shintoists
- Shinto rituals
- Shinto prayer, or norito
- Sacredness of the ancestral name
- Custom of "declaring name" on the battlefield
- Buddhist rituals
- Three appointed times of worship
- Anniversary festivals of the ancestors of the Shoguns
- Custom of visiting ancestral graves
- Part III. Ancestor-Worship and Law
- Chapter I. The Government
- Matsuri-goto, or "affairs of worship"
- Ceremony of the "Commencement of the Affairs of the State"
- "Sai-sei Itchi," or the "unity of worship and government"
- The Department of Divine Worship
- The Taiho Code and the Yengi Shiki
- Report of important State affairs to the Great Shrine
- Visits of the Emperor and the Crown Prince to the Great Shrine
- Visits of Prince Ito and Admiral Togo to the Great Shrine
- Chapter II. The Constitution
- Promulgation of the Constitution
- Prince Ito and the Imperial Commission
- The fundamental principle of the Constitution
- Prince Ito's "Commentaries on the Constitution"
- The Preamble of the Constitution
- The Imperial Speech
- The Imperial Oath
- The Preamble of the Imperial House Law
- The Supplements to the Imperial House Law
- Imperial message to the Combined Fleet
- The ascension of Jimmu Tenno
- The Ceremonies of Coronation
- Theocratico-patriarchal constitutionalism
- Causes of this form of government
- The Restoration of 1868
- The "Five Articles of the Imperial Oath"
- Chapter III. The Imperial House
- The Throne as a heritage from the Imperial Ancestors
- Imperial House Ordinances of 1909 and 1910
- The Imperial House as "oyake"
- Identification of the Imperial cult with the national cult
- Relation of Ancestor-worship to loyalty and patriotism
- Recent revolution in China
- Chapter IV. The People
- "Three Bodies"
- Uji-no-kami, or clan-chief
- Uji as an administrative division
- The Reform of the Taikwa Era
- Change of administrative divisions from personal to territorial
- The Imperial Rescript on Education
- Basis of the moral education of the people
- Chapter V. The House
- Three epochs of the law of personal registration
- Clan as the original unit of the State
- House as the intermediate unit of the State
- Individual as the final unit of the State
- Provisions of the new Civil Code
- Prohibition of the abolition of a house
- Duty of an heir to continue the house
- The Peerage Ordinance of 1907
- House-laws of the Peers
- House-law of a certain Count
- Chapter VI. Marriage
- Definition of marriage in the Li Chi
- Original cause of its recognition by law
- Continuity of family cult
- Mencius on filial impiety
- Confucius on filial impiety
- Consent of the house-head
- Consent of the parents
- Mencius on the marriage of the Emperor Shun
- Chinese prohibition of marriage between persons of the same clan-name
- Celibacy
- The "Hundred Articles" of Tokugawa
- Celibacy of younger sons
- Concubinage
- Cause of its legal recognition
- Concubine's status
- Abolition of concubinage
- Chapter VII. Divorce
- The House-law of the Taiho Code
- "Seven grounds of divorce"
- Provisions of the new Civil Code
- Two kinds of divorce
- Grounds of judicial divorce
- Dissolution of adoption and divorce
- Muko-yoshi, or "adoption of a son-in-law"
- Kajo, or "house-daughter"
- Daijo, or "stock-daughter"
- Chapter VIII. Adoption
- Object of adoption
- Fustel de Coulanges on adoption
- Duty of the house-head to adopt
- Qualification of the adopter
- Consolation for childless marriage
- "Death-bed adoption"
- "Quick adoption"
- "Sudden adoption"
- Death without an heir
- Adoption by testament
- Lower limit of the age of the adopter
- Difference of age between the adopter and the adopted
- Age of the adopted
- Prohibition of adopting a stranger
- Reason of the prohibition
- Consequence of the prohibition
- Increase of ronin
- Plot of Yui-no Shosetsu
- Reform of the law
- Failure of male issue
- Muko-yoshi, or "adoption of son-in-law"
- Marriage of the adopted son with the "house-daughter"
- Consent of the house-head and the parents
- Effect of adoption
- Chapter IX. The Dissolution of Adoption
- Two kinds of dissolution
- Legal causes of dissolution
- Divorce in the case of marriage with the "house-daughter"
- Chapter X. Succession
- Three stages of its evolution
- Succession to house-worship
- Succession to house-headship
- Change in the nature of house-headship
- Relations of the three kinds of succession
- Succession to property
- Two kinds of succession
- Four kinds of heirs
- Duty of the legal heir to succeed
- Disinheritance of an heir
- Appointment of an heir
- Choice of an heir
- Ascendant's right of succession
- Prevention of the extinction of the house
- Appendix I. Prof. Westlake's letter to the author
- Appendix II. A review of "Ancestor worship and Japanese Law" and "Lectures on the Japanese Civil Code"
- Editor's Note
