[1] We have derived most of the material for this chapter from The Book of Tea, by Okakura-Kakuzo, and we warmly commend this very charming volume to those who are interested in the subject.
[2] The Chinese Paradise.
[3] A full account of this beautiful legend will be found in Lafcadio Hearn's Some Chinese Ghosts.
[4] "Originally a kind of toggle for the medicine-box or tobacco-pouch, carved out of wood or ivory."—Things Japanese, by B. H. Chamberlain.
[5] Reference to Yuki-Daruma, or Snow-Daruma, and toy-Daruma, called Okiagari-koboshi ("The Getting-up Little Priest"), will be found in Lafcadio Hearn's A Japanese Miscellany.