[58] Lit.: “the Inscription of the Tower of Diamond,”—name of a Buddhist text.
[59] The Six States of Existence are Heaven, Man, Demons, Hell, Hungry Spirits (Pretas), and Animals.—The above is from a Zen sotoba.
[60] Sotoba of the Nichiren sect.
[61] San-doku or Mitsu-no-doku, viz.:—Anger, Ignorance, and Desire.—From a Zen sotoba.
[62] Japanese title of the Saddhârma-Pundarika Sûtra. See, for legend, chap. xi. of Kern’s translation in the Sacred Books of the East series.
[63] There is a great variety of sîla;—five, eight, and ten for different classes of laity; two hundred and fifty for priests;—five hundred for nuns, etc., etc.—Be it here observed that the posthumous Buddhist name given to the dead must not be studied as referring always to conduct in this world, but rather as referring to sîla in another world. The kaimyō is thus a title of spiritual initiation.—Some Japanese Buddhist sects hold what are called Ju-Kai-E (“sîla-giving assemblies”), at which the initiated are given kaimyō of another sort,—sîla-names of admission as neophytes.
[64] That is, according to the Japanese reading of the Chinese characters.
[65] By the old calendar, the eleventh month was the Month of Frost.
[66] The second year of the period Shōtoku corresponds to 1712 A.D.—(For the meaning of the phrase “Dragon of Elder Water” the reader will do well to consult Professor Rein’s Japan, pp. 434-436.)
[67] This beautiful kaimyō is identical with that placed upon the monument of my dear friend Nishida, buried in the Nichiren cemetery of Chōmanji, in Matsué.