[63] See Norman’s “Real Japan,” chap. ix.
[64] The best books on this subject are Mitford’s “Tales of Old Japan,” Miss Ballard’s “Fairy Tales from Far Japan,” Griffis’s “Fire-Fly’s Lovers,” Mme. Ozaki’s “Japanese Fairy Book,” and the series of crêpe booklets of “Japanese Fairy Tales,” published by the Kobunsha, Tōkyō.
[65] See “Japanese Calendars,” Transactions Asiatic Society of Japan, vol. xxx. part. i.
[66] The sixty-first year of a person’s life is of special interest, because it is the first of a second cycle of sixty years.
[67] “The vast rice crop is raised on millions of tiny farms; the silk crop in millions of small, poor homes; the tea crop on countless little patches of soil.”—Lafcadio Hearn.
[68] The Japanese seem to have no nerves; or, at least, their nervous system is much less sensitive than ours.
[69] See Baron Shibusawa’s opinion, pp. [40]-43.
[70] But “the peasantry is, in the main, honest.”
[71] See “Japanese Calendars,” Transactions Asiatic Society of Japan, vol. xxx. part i.
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