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See Chapter VIII., W.G. Dixon's Gleanings from Japan.
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T.A.S.J., Vol. VI., pp. 48-50.
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In the inscription upon the great bell, at the temple containing the image of Dai Butsŭ or Great Buddha, reared by Hidéyori and his mother, one sentence contained the phrase Kokka anko, ka and ko being Chinese for Iyé and yasŭ, which the Yedo ruler professed to believe mockery. In another sentence, "On the East it welcomes the bright moon, and on the West bids farewell to the setting sun," Iyéyasŭ discovered treason. He considered himself the rising sun, and Hidéyori the setting moon.—Chamberlain's Hand-book for Japan, p. 300.
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I have found the Astor Library in New York especially rich in works of this sort.
Footnote 21:[(return)]
Nitobé's United States and Japan, p. 13, note.
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This insurrection has received literary treatment at the hands of the Japanese in Shimabara, translated in The Far East for 1872; Woolley's Historical Notes on Nagasaki, T.A.S.J., Vol. IX., p. 125; Koeckebakker and the Arima Rebellion, by Dr. A.J.C. Geerts, T.A.S.J., Vol. XI., 51; Inscriptions on Shimabara and Amakusa, by Henry Stout, T.A.S.J., Vol. VII, p. 185.
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"Persecution extirpated Christianity from Japan."—History of Rationalism, Vol. II, p. 15.
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T.A.S.J., Vol. VI., Part I., p. 62; M.E. pp. 531, 573.
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Political, despite the attempt of many earnest members of the order to check this tendency to intermeddle in politics; see Dr. Murray's Japan, p. 245, note, 246.