Footnote 16:[(return)]
Honda the Samurai, pp. 249-251; Nitobé, 25-27.
Footnote 17:[(return)]
The Tokugawa Princes of Mito, by Professor E. W. Clement, T.A.S.J., Vol. XVIII, p. 14; Nitobé's United States and Japan, p. 25, note.
Footnote 18:[(return)]
M.E. (6 Ed.), p. 608; Adams's History of Japan, Vol. II., p. 171.
Footnote 19:[(return)]
See the text of the anti-Christian edicts, M.E., p. 369.
Footnote 20:[(return)]
T.A.S.J., Vol. XX., p. 17.
Footnote 21:[(return)]
T.A.S.J., Vol. IX., p. 134.
Footnote 22:[(return)]
Tales of Old Japan, Vol. II., p. 125; A Japanese Buddhist Preacher, by Professor M.K. Shimomura, in the New York Independent; other sermons have been printed in The Japan Mail; Kino Dowa, two sermons and vocabulary, has been edited by Rev. C.S. Eby, Yokohama.
Footnote 23:[(return)]
On Sunday, November 29, 1857, Mr. Harris, resting at Kawasaki, over Sunday, on his way to Yedo and audience of the Shōgun, having Mr. Heusken as his audience and fellow-worshipper, read service from the Book of Common Prayer.
Footnote 24:[(return)]
See a paper written by the author and read at the World's Columbian Exhibition Congress of Missions, Chicago, September, 1893, on The Citizen Rights of Missionaries.
Footnote 25:[(return)]
This embassy was planned and first proposed to the Junior premier, Tomomi Iwakura, and the route arranged by the Rev. Guido F. Verbeck, then President of the Imperial University. One half of the members of the embassy had been Dr. Verbeck's pupils at Nagasaki.