FOOTNOTES:
[1] The Soul of a People.
[2] Professor T. Inouye's little pamphlet, published first in French, entitled Sur le Développement des Idées Philosophiques au Japon avant l'Introduction de la Civilisation Européenne, will give you some idea of our philosophic systems. For a serious perusal, its German translation, annotated and amplified, by Dr. A. Gramatzky (Kurze Übersicht über die Entwicklung der philosophischen Ideen in Japan, Berlin, 1897), is to be preferred.
[3] Professor Milne, Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, vol. viii. p. 82.
[4] Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, vol. xxv.
[5] Memoirs of the Literary Department of the University of Tôkyô, vol. i.
[6] Die körperlichen Eigenschaften der Japaner, vols. xxviii. and xxxii. of Mittheilungen der Gesellschaft für die Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens.
[7] Cp. Bramsen's Japanese Chronological Tables.
[8] Legge's The Religion of China, p. 137.
[9] Cp. Rhys Davids' Buddhism, p. 144.
[10] Cp. T. Haga's Note on Japanese Schools of Philosophy. T.A.S.J., vol. xx. pt. i. p. 134.
[11] Faber's Doctrines of Confucius, p. 33.
[12] Cp. Dr. P. Carus's Lao-tze Tao-teh-king.
[13] Cp. Sacred Books of the East, vol. xxix.
[14] Cp. Sacred Books of the East, vol. xxix.
[15] E. J. Eitel's Handbook of Chinese Buddhism, p. 49.
[16] Four years later the first temple of this school was opened in Hakata under the patronship of the Emperor Gotoba.
[17] The first mention in books of a similar mode of death dates from the latter part of the twelfth century. But it does not seem that the custom became universal until a considerably later period.
[18] B.H. Chamberlain's Bashô and the Japanese Epigram, T.A.S.J., vol. xxx. pt. ii.