Footnote 10:[(return)]
S. and H., p. 415; Chamberlain's Hand-book for Japan; T.J.; M.E., p. 162, etc.
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The names of Buddhist priests and monks are usually different from those of the laity, being taken from events in the life of Gautama, or his original disciples, passages in the sacred classics, etc. Among some personal acquaintances in the Japanese priesthood were such names as Lift-the-Kettle, Take-Hold-of-the-Dipper, Drivelling-Drunkard, etc. In the raciness, oddity, literalness, realism, and close connection of their names with the scriptures of their system, the Buddhists quite equal the British Puritans.
Footnote 12:[(return)]
Kern's Saddharma-Pundarika, pp. 311, 314; Davids's Buddhism p. 208; The Phoenix, Vol. I., p. 169; S. and H., p. 502; Du Bose's Dragon, Demon, and Image, p. 407; Fuso Mimi Bukuro, p. 134; Hough's Corean Collections, Washington, 1893, p. 480, plate xxviii.
Footnote 13:[(return)]
Japan in History, Folk-lore and Art, pp. 86, 80-88; A Japanese Grammar, by J.J. Hoffman, p. 10; T.J., pp. 465-470.
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This is the essence of Buddhism, and was for centuries repeated and learned by heart throughout the empire:
"Love and enjoyment disappear,
What in our world endureth here?
E'en should this day it oblivion be rolled,
'Twas only a vision that leaves me cold."
Footnote 15:[(return)]
This legend suggests the mediaeval Jewish story, that Ezra, the scribe, could write with five pens at once; Hearn's Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan, pp. 29-33.
Footnote 16:[(return)]
Brave Little Holland, and What She Taught Us, p. 124.
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T.J., pp. 75, 342; Chamberlain's Hand-book for Japan, p. 41; M.E., p. 162.
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T.A.S.J., Vol. II., p. 101; S. and H., p. 176.