Pescadores, ceded by China (1895)
Pessoa, Andrea, blows up his ship at Nagasaki
Pestilence in reign of Sujin; in 1182; in 1783-6; displeasure of gods at adoption of Buddhism
Petition-box (meyasu-bako) and right of petition (645 A.D.); abuse of, pointed out in Miyoshi no Kiyotsura; petition bell in Kamakura; boxes re-introduced
Petropavlovsk, Russian battle-ship, sunk
Pets, cats and dogs
Pheasant in myth of Heavenly Young Prince
—White, Hakurchi, nengo or year-period, 650-4 A.D.
Philippine Islands, promised to Hideyoshi by Franciscans; Ieyasu's embassies to; conquest of, urged by Cocks, and by Matsukura and Takenaka; Japanese forbidden to visit; governor-general of, in Japan
Phung-chang, prince of Kudara