[ [37] It was a tiny squid. There are seventy sorts of cuttlefish and octopuses in Japanese waters. Value of dried cuttlefish in 1917, 4 million yen.
[ [38] The hands are laid flat on the ground with finger-tips meeting and the forehead touches the hands.
[ [39] See Chapter XX.
[ [40] The root grows to about the size of a big apple. It may be seen in the shops in white dried sections. A stiff greyish jelly made from it is eaten with rice. It is also eaten as oden or dengaku.
[ [41] See [Appendix IV].
[ [42] See [Appendix XX].
[ [43] See [Appendix V].
[ [44] The truth is being learnt by the younger generation.
[ [45] For crime statistics, see [Appendix VI].
[ [46] Harakiri (seppuku is the polite word) still happens. Just before writing this note I read of the captain of the first company of the Japanese garrison in a Korean town having committed seppuku because of a sense of responsibility for the irregularities of subordinates. But of 7,239 suicides of men in 1916 only 308 were by cold steel. Of 4,558 cases of women suicides 140 were by steel.