The desire of the author is to guide her readers faithfully along this time-honoured, half obliterated Way of the Gods, clearing the path with reverent, not iconoclastic hands, because recognising it as the Way by which the Japanese were divinely led to their present mental altitude. The path is traced in threefold aspect — Ethical, Philosophical, and Romantic. The story trends towards a sensational crisis in order to emphasise life-portraits known to the author While resident in the country.