NOTES

Meanings and Pronunciation of Japanese Words used in the Text.

[1. Pron. Day-shee-mah, little island.]

[2. Pron. Nang-ah-sah-kee.]

[3. Pron. Shoh-goon. General-in-chief.]

[4. Pron. Die-mee-yoh. This word means Great Name.]

[5. Pron. Sah-moo-rye.]

[6. Pron. Yed-doh, now Tokyo (pron. To-kee-yoh), or Eastern Capital. Yedo was the capital of Old Japan, from 1600 to 1868.]

[7. Pron. Kee-yoh-toh, the real capital of Old Japan.]

[8. Pron. Ten-shee Sah-mah. Lord of Heaven.]

[9. Pron. Toh-koo-ngah-wah.]

[10. Pron. Ee-yay-yas.]

[11. Pron. Say-kee-gah-hah-rah.]

[12. Pron. Moh-ree.]

[13. Pron. Cho-shu, in the southwest part of the Island of Hondo, the mainland of Japan.]

[14. Pron. yash-kee.]

[15. Pron. Ee-yay-meets.]

[16. Pron. Moots′-shtoh.]

[17. Pron. hah-kah-mah, loose trousers, part of the dress reserved to knights and nobles.]

[18. Pron. kah-yah-kee, a hardwood.]

[19. Pron. show-jee.]

[20. Pron. ah-may.]

[21. Pron. hee-bat-chee, a charcoal brazier, to warm the hands or light the pipe.]

[22. Pron. keé-moh-noh.]

[23. Pron. Hie, hie! meaning “yes” or “coming”.]

[24. I have translated the conversations in intelligible English. To give the forms of self-abasement of the speaker, and the titles of honor to the person addressed, would sound ridiculous to us.]

[25. Pron. On-nah Die-gah-koo, a book giving the rules for married women.]

[26. Pron. sah-kee.]

[27. Pron. Hat′ toh ree.]

[28. Pron. mets′ kay, an official spy, appointed by the Shogun government.]

[29. Pron. Go-roh-jiu (u the French sound), Hon. Great Council which issued all orders from the Shogun to the great Daimiyo.]

[30. Pron. Sah-wah.]

[31. Pron. noh-ree-moh-noh, a sort of sedan chair.]

[32. Pron. Ee-toh.]

[33. Pron. Toh-kie-doh, the great highway running from Tokyo to Kyoto.]

[34. Pron. Mee-toh and I-dzoo, two clans belonging to the Tokugawa family.]

[35. Pron. Ee-ee Nah-oh-skay, Daimiyo of Hikoni and regent of Japan, who was afterwards assassinated.]

[36. Pron. Ee-no-yay.]

[37. Pron. how-ree, a thin mantlet of crêpe, with the coat of arms worked on the back and sleeves.]

[38. Pron. Kee-ee, and Oh-wah-ree, the two estates taken from Choshiu and given to the sons of Iyeyasu.]

[39. Pron. Shtah nee eeroo.]

[40. Pron. Ay-kee-chee.]

[41. Pron. f′ton.]

[42. The legacy of Iyeyasu, the law book of Old Japan.]

[43. The plain, east of the Hakone Mountains which contains Yedo.]

[44. Pron. Nah-kah-sen-doh, another highway between Yedo and Kyoto. In the narrowest passes of both roads barriers were placed which no one could pass, except when provided with passports from the government.]

[45. Pron. roh-neen, a samurai who did not belong to a clan. The Yedo government held the clan responsible for the acts of its samurai.]

[46. Pron. Foo-jee, Kano’s chief retainer.]

[47. Pron. Yah-doh-yah, an inn.]

[48. Pron. hee-yahk-show, literally peasant.]

[49. Pron. Kodz′kie.]

[50. Pron. ee-chee-roh-koo nee-chee, literally one-six-day. Until 1874 every fifth day was a holiday for the samurai; these days were the 1st, 6th, 11th, 16th, etc.]

[51. O before a name means honorable. Pron. O Kee-chee.]

[52. Pron. tah-tah-mee, thick rush mats.]

[53. Pron. ree-yoh, old Japanese coin equal to about $1.00.]

[54. Pron. neen-zoh-koo, a coolie or day laborer.]

[55. Pron. yah-shwee moh-noh, the name by which the Roman Catholics were known.]

[56. Issued Jan. 27, 1614.]

[57. Pron. Ty Coon. This is really a Chinese word and means Great Prince.]

[58. Pron. O Ee-shah-sahn.]

[59. Pron. nar-rah foo-doh! which may be translated by; Is that so?—You don’t say so! and similar expressions.]

[60. Pron. hat′-to-bah, jetty or landing.]

[61. Pron. Ay-to.]

[62. Pron. Tay-rah-jee.]

[63. Pron. Kah-mee′-shee-moh.]

[64. Pron. sep′ poo-koo, suicide by disemboweling, commonly called hara-kiri. Pron. hah-rah′ kee-ree′.]

[65. Pron. Ee-yay-sah-dah.]

[66. Pron. Mee-toh. Of the three great Tokugawa families, Mito, Kii, and Owari, Mito, by a secret] clause in Iyeyasu’s will was debarred from succeeding as Shogun.

[67. Pron. Koong-ay, court nobles, descendants from former emperors, who held the same position at the court as did the councillors in the clan.]

[68. The Court of Tenshi sawa.]

[69. Pron. Son-noh Joe-ee.]

[70. Saru-me (pron. sah roo may), an approbrious term used to express contempt and indignation.]

[71. Pron. Yah-mah-toh Dah-mash-yee.]

[72. Pron. Kah-ras-soo Mah-roo.]

[73. A kuge was of much higher rank than a daimiyo, and even of the Shogun. They did not mention the daimiyo by their estate, but by their family name.]

[74. Pron. Mee-yah, families accounted as Princes of the Blood. Most of them were nurtured like the daimiyo, and wholly unable to think for themselves.]

[75. Pron. Nee-joh, one of the leading Kuge families.]

[76. Pron. kah-kay-moh-noh, hanging scroll.]

[77. Pron. Shee-mad-zoo, family name of the lord of Satsuma.]

[78. According to Confucius.]

[79. This document is quoted in F. O. Adams’ History of Japan.]

[80. Pron. Shee-moh-noh-say-kee.]

[81. Pron. Ee-chee-joe, Nee-joe, Hee-gash-ee Koo-zay.]

[82. Nijo refers to the repulse of the Tartars in A. D. 1281.]

[83. Pron. Ee-say.]

[84. Pron. tsoo-boh, a square measure.]

[85. Pron. ty-foo, our typhoon; lit. great storm.]

[86. A member of the Imperial family, addressing one of inferior rank of the same, uses the given name. Iwakura’s given name was Tomomi.]

[87. There is a street of that name in Kyoto.]

[88. Pron. Foo-shee-mee.]

[89. Pron. Cho-tay-kee, i. e., rebel against Tenshi Sama.]

[90. Pron. Kay-kee.]

[91. Confucius.]

[92. Pron. Oh-dah-wah-rah, a town at the foot of the Hakome range.]

[93. Pron. Oh-sah-shtoh.]

[94. Pron. Koh-may.]

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FOOTNOTES:

[A] It was the American fleet, under Commodore Perry, who was sent by President Millard Fillmore to make a treaty with Japan.