Shinto: The Ancient Religion of Japan on Nihongi: “The Nihongi, a work of similar scope, though based more on an existing written literature, was produced a few years later (720). It quotes numerous variants of the religious myths current at this time.”
Shinto: The Ancient Religion of Japan on Man'yoshu: “In one passage of the Nihongi, Yomi is clearly no more than a metaphor for the grave. A brother of Jimmu Tenno, the first Mikado, is said to have gone to the ‘Eternal Land’ at his death, and in a poem of the Manyōshiu, a deceased Mikado is said to have ascended into heaven.”
Shinto: The Ancient Religion of Japan on The Tempest: “In Shakespeare’s Tempest, Iris is at once the rainbow and an anthropomorphic messenger of the gods. Phoebus is not only the sun but a deity distinct from that luminary, though associated with it, as in the story of Phaeton.”
Shinto: The Ancient Religion of Japan on Occult Japan: “There is evidence that the inspired person, generally a woman, delivered the divine message when in a hypnotic trance. This is undoubtedly the case at the present time. Mr. P. Lowell’s Occult Japan gives a detailed description of a séance of this kind at which he was present.”
Shinto: The Ancient Religion of Japan on Shintoisme: “Shintoisme, by M. Revon, in the Revue de l’Histoire des Religions, 1905-1907. Highly recommended for its up-to-date theory, and as a comprehensive collection of facts.”