Semi- H815s

THE SACRED BOOKS AND EARLY LITERATURE OF THE EAST

VOLUME XIII

JAPAN

THE GOD OF CHILDREN

This Japanese God of Children is known as Jizo or Jesu.

In Translations by

REV. WM. ELLIOT GRIFFIS, D.D., L.H.D., former Professor of the Japanese College, Tokyo, Chairman of the St. Louis Congress of Religions; SIR ERNEST SATOW, G.C.M.G., formerly British Minister to Japan; VISCOUNT KENCHO SUYEMATSU, LL.M., Japanese Minister of the Interior; BASIL H. CHAMBERLAIN, former Professor of Japanese, Imperial University of Tokyo; W. G. ASTON, Litt.D., C.M.G.; and REV. TIMOTHY RICHARDS, D.D., Litt.D.

With a Brief Bibliography by

PROF. WM. ELLIOT GRIFFIS, D.D., L.H.D.

With an Historical Survey and Descriptions by

PROF. CHARLES F. HORNE, PH.D.

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