[ [1]A parody on a famous couplet in a Chinese poem:
“Snow is like goose-feather, and flying, is scattered;
Man looks robed in the crane’s plumage, and rising, wanders about.”
[ [2]Refers to the stories of two Chinese scholars, Ch’e-yin, who collected fireflies and put them in a bag to read by their light, and Sun-K’ang, who read by the snow-light, as they were too poor to buy a lamp and oil.
[ [3]A cord for tucking in the sleeves.
[ [4]An itinerant minstrel of the ronin class.
[ [5]A celebrated Chinese strategist of the fifth century before Christ.
[ [6]Noted for the great efforts he made to avenge the murder of his master Chih-pai.