New Life in the Oldest Empire (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from New Life in the Oldest Empire The Japanese think that no one can comprehend Japanese history or the Japanese mind unless he, as a basis, perceives the inseparability of the Land and the Imperial House. They think that their very mythology is different in nature from the mythology of all other lands in that it ascribes every important phase to the Imperial Ancestors and to the Fatherland. It is likely that there is no such fundamental difference in these mythological concepts as they suppose, but it may be wise to begin by accepting them provisionally, as our view-point. The special thing upon which they insist is that the Land and the Goddess of the Sun were both born from the same parents, Izanagi and Izanami, the two self-generating, creative deities. An integral element of the same basic concept lies in their belief in the distinction in rank (not in being or nature) between the sovereign and the subject, - a distinction which they hold to be necessary and inalterable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.