[1] The Japanese Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, edited by Elizabeth Bisland.
[2] Sacred staff.
[3] "Hail, omnipotent Buddha!"
[4] A gateway.
[5] "A wand from which depend strips of white paper cut into little angular bunches (gohei), intended to represent the offerings of cloth which were anciently tied to branches of the sacred cleyera tree at festival time."—B. H. Chamberlain.