[7] Turner, Nineteen Years in Polynesia (1861), p. 237. [↑]
[8] Batchelor, Notes on the Ainu (Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, Vol. X), p. 218. [↑]
[9] Nira, the Allium odorum. [↑]
[10] Tilia cordata. See Chamberlain’s Ko-ji-ki, pp. 102 n. 26, and 215. [↑]
[11] An evil rain which did harm like the evil rain sent by a sick or an angry and destroying dragon. [↑]
[12] The moor of the waterfall of the River Yoro in Mino. [↑]
[13] Apparently the sword would have protected him against the fatal enchantment wrought by the white boar-god of Mount Ibuki. [↑]
[14] Chidori, a dotteril, plover, or sandpiper. [↑]
[15] As a god’s mi-tama rests in a temple to be worshipped. [↑]
[16] His posthumous title. During life he was called Hachiman. [↑]