Japan and the Japanese

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them (those of the northern, middle and southern provinces), each
to be attended by priests of their own nation, to be sent c er from
China." *
These temples, called, each in the special
dialect of its frequenters,
" Temples of
"
Riches the god which the Chinese chiefly
worship are described by Kampf'er, from his own observation, as
remarkable for their handsome structure, and the number of monks
or Buddhist clergy attached to them. As soon as any Chinese ships
arrived in the harbor, the crews immediately took on shore the
idols, which formed a part of the ship's outfit, and placed them in
some small chapels, built for that purpose, near by the large tem-
ples, or convents as in fact they rather were. This was done with
uncommon respect and particular ceremonies, playing upon cym
bals and beating of drums, which same ceremonies were repeated,
when, upon the departure of the board again.
junks, the idols were carried on
Encouraged by this favorable reception of his countrymen, Ingen
who was at that time at the head of the Buddhist priesthood rf
China, claiming to be the twenty-eighth in succeFsion from the four
der of the Chinese Buddhist patriarchate, surrendered to a success, v
his high dignity at home, and, in the year 1653, came over to
Japan, there to establish a sort of caliphate or archiepiscopal see,
as Kiimpfer expresses it, of the particular branch or sect of the
Buddhist faith to which he belonged.
" The princes and lords of
several provinces came to compliment him, clad in their kamisimo,^
or garments of ceremony. The emperor offered him for his resi-
dence a mountain in the neighborhood of the holy city of Miako,
which he called Obaku, the name of his former papal residence in
China. An incident which happened soon after his arrival contributed
very much to forward his designs, and raised an uncommon
* These temples, built in Japan by the Chinese merchants, remind one of
the temples built in Egypt by the Greek merchants, who first opened a trade
with that country. See G rote's History of Greece, chap. xx.
t The kamisimo is a state dress, composed of two garments (Jcrnni signi-
fies whit is ahove, and siino what is below), a short cloak, without sleeves,
..ailed katuyeno, and breeches, called vakuma. Both are of a particulai
^>rm (the breeches being like a petticoat sewed up between the legs), and of
colored stuifs. They are used only on days of ceremony and at funerals.
Tihingh.