Hotoke

For on that day the sea is the highway of the dead, who must pass back over its waters to their mysterious home; and therefore upon that day is it called Hotoke-umi -- the Buddha-Flood -- the Tide of the Returning Ghosts.

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

Nikko, on a hill called Hotoke-iwa, and in the spring of 1617 the tomb was completed and the coffin was deposited under it with appropriate

The Critic in the Orient George Hamlin Fitch 1888

No direct request for any supernatural favour is made to a Shin-botoke; for, though respectfully called Hotoke, the freshly departed soul is not really deemed to have reached Buddhahood: it is only on the long road thither, and is in need itself, perhaps, of aid, rather than capable of giving aid.

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

The sun shone on my second visit and brightened the spring tints of the trees on Hotoke

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

And when we look at their history, and observe the actual reverence paid by the multitudes to the rulers, and by the superstitious worshipers to the "Kami" and "Hotoke," it becomes evident that the apparent irreverence in the Christian churches must be due to peculiar conditions.

Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Sidney Lewis Gulick 1902

'Having learned from our faithful councillors that foreign priests have come into our estates, where they preach a law contrary to that of Japan, and that they have even had the audacity to destroy temples dedicated to our Kami and Hotoke; although the outrage merits the most extreme punishment, wishing nevertheless to show them mercy, we order them under pain of death to quit Japan within twenty days.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

Hotoke, for this grotto is sacred both to Shinto and to Buddhist faith.

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

The Hotoke, or Buddhas, and the beneficent Kami are not the only divinities worshipped by the Japanese of the poorer classes.

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

Hotoke ga shimpai shite: naki-naki tsumi naoshi-masu. '

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

The Buddhist dead are not called gods, but Buddhas (Hotoke), -- which term, of course, expresses a pious hope, rather than a faith.

Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation Lafcadio Hearn 1877