[7] See The History of the Empire of Japan, (volume prepared for the World’s Columbian Exposition at Chicago, 1903), p. 38 f.
[8] Ibid., p. 47.
[9] The History of the Empire of Japan, p. 278 f.
[10] Ibid., p. 280.
[11] See Griffis, The Hermit Nation, p. 159.
[12] See The History of the Empire of Japan, p. 304.
[13] Japan, IV, p. 207.
[14] See The History of the Empire of Japan, p. 403 ff.
[15] This is on the authority of Mr. D. W. Stevens, whose acquaintance with the facts is most accurate and full.
[16] China’s Intercourse with Korea from the XVth Century to 1895, p. 1 f.