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PREFACE

A part of the debt of Japan to Zen Buddhism (one aspect of that all-embracing faith) is treated in this book. So far as I know and believe there is no exaggeration of that debt and there is certainly none in my statement of the coincidence of its teachings with those of Western Science. The Nō play in Chapter XI of which Lady Murasaki is the heroine is my own and is on the old Japanese model. Since, after the publication of “The House of Fulfilment,” countless readers wrote to ask for lists of books in which they could learn more of the subjects there treated I think I may give a very few names of the books which I have found extremely useful and some of which I have quoted.

ESSAYS IN ZEN BUDDHISM, by Professor D. Suzuki. (Luzac, London).

THE NŌ PLAYS OF JAPAN, by Arthur Waley. (Allen & Unwin).

THE FIGHTING SPIRIT OF JAPAN, by E. J. Harrison. (Allen & Unwin).

THE CREATIVE EAST, by T. W. Mason.–Wisdom of the East Series.

A LUTE OF JADE, by L. Cranmer Byng.–Wisdom of the East Series.

THE NATURE OF THE PHYSICAL WORLD, by Professor A. S. Eddington. (The Cambridge Press).

L. ADAMS BECK (E. Barrington)

Japan, 1929.