The best book known to me on early Japan is Murdoch's History of Japan, The volume dealing with the earlier period is published by Kegan Paul, 1910. The chronologically later volume was published earlier; its title is: A History of Japan during the Century of Early Foreign Intercourse (1542—1651), by James Murdoch M.A. in collaboration with Isoh Yamagata. Kobe, office of the Japan Chronicle, 1903. I shall allude to these volumes as Murdoch I and Murdoch II respectively.

[41]

Murdoch I. pp. 113 ff.

[42]

Ibid., II. pp. 375 ff.

[43]

Murdoch I. p. 147.

[44]

Murdoch, II, p. 288.

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