[106] G. Underwood, Religions of Eastern Asia, p. 75.

[107] Ibid., p. 83.

[108] Nihongi. See Transactions and Proceedings of the Japan Society, London, vol. i., translated by W. G. Aston.

[109] Nihongi. See Transactions and Proceedings of the Japan Society, London, vol. i., p. 181, by W. G. Aston.

[110] Capt. F. Brinkley, Japan, vol. v., p. 194.

[111] Id., vol. v., p. 195.

[112] W. E. Griffis, Japanese Nation in Evolution, p. 268.

[113] Quoted by Garrett Droppers in “The Population of Japan in the Tokugawa Period,” extract from Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, vol. xxi., p. 253.

[114] Brinkley, Japan, vol. iv., p. 56.

[115] Brinkley, Japan, vol. iv., p. 57.