[55] ? Allowaies=aloes, a cotton material.
[56] Satsuma, the province in the S.W. of the island of Kiushiu.
[57] Shimonoseki strait.
[58] Square posts. Kaku = square. More properly kaku-bashira = a square post.
[59] Nanking.
[60] Corge, an Indian measure of 20 pieces.
[61] The materials here mentioned appear to be Indian cotton goods.
[62] The Daimio of Satsuma had lately, in 1609, subdued the Loo-choo Islands.
[63] Fukuoka, in the north of Kiushiu.
[64] Shongo Samme is Cocks’ way of rendering Shogun. Iyéyasu held the Shogunate only two years, and in 1605 transferred that title to his son Hidetada, though still retaining much power. Hideyori (Fidaia Sama) had married Hidetada’s daughter, who, when Osaka was on the point of being captured, was sent out of that fortress to her father.