ai_.]

[Footnote 25: In the vernacular.]

[Footnote 26: The first--Yamaguchi etc.--are place names, from
Kyu[u]shu[u] to O[u]shu[u]; widely scattered. Otherwise--"Bloody Spear"
(Chiyari), "Iron Chin," "Wolf," "Fox-heart," "Iron head," "Monkey
hand."]

[Footnote 27: He has played on the ideographs--[kyoku-sui no en] and
[kyoku-sui no en], _kyoku-sui no en_; the last meaning--"Winding water
entertainment," cf. "Benkei" Vol. II. p. 195.]

[Footnote 28: The _yoriki_ is hard to place--"commanding officer." He
was not of the office, yet as of rank was chosen to lead these more
dangerous and trying expeditions, or to act in more important arrests.]

[Footnote 29: In the conspiracy of Sho[u]setsu such did exist, directed
to the house of one of his followers, placed not far off in another
street. [But recently such a tunnel was discovered under the garden of
Baron Sakatani at Haramachi, Koishikawa, To[u]kyo[u]; believed to belong
to the Hakusan Goten, and dating 250 years back. 20th May, 1917].]

[Footnote 30: Brinkley's Dictionary gives it--_Ichiju no kage ni yadori,
ichiga no nagare wo kumu mo, mina kore tasho[u] no en narubeshi_.]

[Footnote 31: Sho[u]ho[u] 3rd year the New Year fell on 16th February
(1646) of the modern calendar.]

[Footnote 32: _Rangiku ya: kitsune ni no se yo[u] kono sugata. Rangiku_
= Caryopteris mastachantus.]

[Footnote 33: In Buddhist theology the seventh day is one of the
important dates of the _hotokes_ (deceased spirit) sojourn upon Earth.]

[Footnote 34: Pradjna--"highest of the six paramita, principal means of
attaining Nirvana, knowledge of the illusory character of all
existence." Eitel--p. 119.]

[Footnote 35: The quotation and what follows is from Ho[u]gyu[u]sha
To[u]ko[u]--"Bancho[u] Sarayashiki." The exactness of these old temple
registers in essential dates is worth noting.]

[Footnote 36: Tsunayoshi 1646-1709. A vassal of Akita Danjo[u] killed a
swallow. He was executed; his children were executed; and he and his are
but one case out of many.]

[Footnote 37: Or son, by the more respectful account. Yanagizawa
Yoshiyasu took the name of Matsudaira. His son Yoshishige, said really
to be the son of Tsunayoshi by the wife of Yoshiyasu, was to be adopted
by Echizen no Kami Tadanao, brother and heir to the Sho[u]gun. Tadanao
"removed," left the field open to the success (and succession) of the
powerful premier. Yanagizawa as _tairo[u]_ (premier) was an irregularity
in itself.]