[2] “Death is returning home.” Quotation from the Chinese classics.
[3] Meiji (Enlightenment). The era beginning with the reign of the present emperor.
[4] Quoted from a war-song.
[5] The cherry-blossom is the flower of the warrior, because of its beauty, its short life, and its glorious death.
[6] Quoted from the Imperial Rescript on Education. This may be called the Japanese Gospel on Education, and is read with all possible tokens of reverence in all Japanese schools on all ceremonial occasions. For full text, see Appendix A.
[7] Go, a measure of capacity equal to a little more than a gill.
[8] Sen, equal to half a cent.
[9] Rice is a banquet to people so poor that they live ordinarily on millet.
[10] “Banzai!” “Hurrah!” (Literally, “Ten thousand years!”)
[11] This refers, not as it may seem, to the thought of coming back disabled, but to the idea of returning without the body after death.