O'IWA INARI
Reading edition
RETOLD FROM THE JAPANESE ORIGINALS
BY
JAMES S. DE BENNEVILLE
"The mainspring of human existence
is love (
nasaké
), for others or—oneself."
—Seishin
PRESS OF J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY PHILADELPHIA, U.S.A. 1917
copyright, 1917, by James Seguin de Benneville
PRINTED AND COPYRIGHTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA