[Footnote 13:  Japan in History, Folk-lore and Art, pp. 86, 80-88; A Japanese Grammar, by J.J.  Hoffman, p. 10; T.J., pp. 465-470.]

[Footnote 14:  This is the essence of Buddhism, and was for centuries repeated and learned by heart throughout the empire: 

  “Love and enjoyment disappear,
    What in our world endureth here? 
  E’en should this day it oblivion be rolled,
    ’Twas only a vision that leaves me cold.”
]

[Footnote 15:  This legend suggests the mediaeval Jewish story, that Ezra, the scribe, could write with five pens at once; Hearn’s Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan, pp. 29-33.]

[Footnote 16:  Brave Little Holland, and What She Taught Us, p. 124.]

[Footnote 17:  T.J., pp. 75, 342; Chamberlain’s Hand-book for Japan, p. 41; M.E., p. 162.]

[Footnote 18:  T.A.S.J., Vol.  II., p. 101; S. and H., p. 176.]

[Footnote 19:  It was for lifting with his walking-stick the curtain hanging before the shrine of this Kami that Arinori Mori, formerly H.I.J.M.  Minister at Washington and London, was assassinated by a Shint[=o] fanatic, February 11, 1889; T. J., p. 229; see Percival Lowell’s paper in the Atlantic Monthly.]

[Footnote 20:  See Mr. P. Lowell’s Esoteric Shint[=o], T.A.S.J., Vol.  XXI, pp. 165-167, and his “Occult Japan.”]

[Footnote 21:  S. and H., Japan, p. 83.]

[Footnote 22:  See the Author’s Introduction to the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, Boston, 1891.]

[Footnote 23:  B.N., Index and pp. 78-103; Edkins’s Chinese Buddhism, p. 169.]

[Footnote 24:  Satow’s or Chamberlain’s Guide-books furnish hundreds of other instances, and describe temples in which the renamed kami are worshipped.]

[Footnote 25:  S. and H., p. 70.]

[Footnote 26:  M.E., pp. 187, 188; S. and H., pp. 11, 12.]

[Footnote 27:  San Kai Ri (Mountain, Sea, and Land).  This work, recommended to me by a learned Buddhist priest in Fukui, I had translated and read to me by a Buddhist of the Shin Shu sect.  In like manner, even Christian writers in Japan have occasionally endeavored to rationalize the legends of Shint[=o], see Kojiki, p. liii., where Mr. T. Goro’s Shint[=o] Shin-ron is referred to.  I have to thank my friend Mr. C. Watanabe, of Cornell University, for reading to me Mr. Takahashi’s interesting but unconvincing monographs on Shint[=o] and Buddhism.]

[Footnote 28:  T.J., p. 402; Some Chinese Ghosts, by Lafcadio Hearn, p. 129.]

[Footnote 29:  S. and H., Japan, p. 397; Classical Poetry of the Japanese, p. 201, note.]

[Footnote 30:  The Japanese word Ry[=o] means both, and is applied to the eyes, ears, feet, things correspondent or in pairs, etc.; bu is a term for a set, kind, group, etc.]

[Footnote 31:  Rein, p. 432; T.A.S.J., Vol.  XXI., pp. 241-270; T.J., p. 339.]

[Footnote 32:  The Chrysanthemum, Vol.  I., p. 401.]