“The conception of sin, as distinct
from uncleanness, is wanting, or rudimentary, and throughout their history the
Japanese seem to have retained in some measure this incapacity to discern, or
this reluctance to grapple with a problem of Evil. […]Much that is baffling in
the study of their history, from ancient to modern times, becomes clearer when one
remembers that they have never been tortured
by the sense of sin”
(G.B. Sansom, Japan. A Short Cultural History, New York, 1931,
p. 54)
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