Kamis, in the Japanese Theology, de- note deified souls of ancient heroes, who are supposed still to interfect themselves in the welfare of the people over whom they anciently commanded.

The camis answer to the heroes in the ancient Greek and Roman theology, and are venerated like the saints in the modern Romish church.

Besides the heroes or camis beatified by the consent of antiquity, the mikados, or pontiffs, have deified many others, and continue still to grant the apotheosis to new worthies; so that they swarm with camis: the principal one is Tenso Dai Sin, the common father of Japan, to whom are paid devotions and pilgrimages extraordinary.

Camisa, in the art of war, an attack by sur- prise in the night, or at the break of day, when the enemy is supposed to be asleep. The word is said to have taken its rise from an attack of this kind; where- in, as a badge or signal to know one another by, they bore a shift, in French called chemise, or camise, over their arms.