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following Aratame* (exclusive, however, of those who live in the
castle and at the Duiri's court)."
Neyi ^persons attending the Sintos temples), .... 9,003
Jamabo (mountain priests),
6,073
Siuku (ecclesiastics of the Buddhist religion),
. . . 37,093
Buddhist laymen, of four principal and eight inferior
sects or observances,! 477,557
Tira (Buddhist temples),
Mias (Sinto temples),
Sokokf Dai ]\[io Jasild (palaces
princes and lords of the empire),
Matz (streets),
Ken (houses),
Bos (bridges),
and houses of the
3,893
2,127
137
1,858
138,979
87
* The Jlrntame is a sort of an inquisition into the life and family of every
inhabitant, the number of his children and domestics, the sect lie professes or
the temples lie belongs to, made very punctually, once every year, in every
city and district, by commissioners appointed for this purpose.
t The worshippers of Amida were the most numerous, amounting to
159,113. The other principal sects h:id, respectively, 99,7'28, 99,016,
54,586. Caron had noticed and mentioned this division into twelve sects, or
observances. He states, and other subsequent authors have repeated, that,
notwithstanding this division, they have no controversies or religious quar-
but this does not agree with the accounts of the Catholic missionaries.
rels ;
Every resident of Miako, except the Sinto priests, and, perhaps, the household
af the Dairi, would seem to belong to some Buddhist sect