[Footnote 6:  T.A.S.J., Vol.  XVI., p. 74; Bramsen’s Chronological Tables, Introd., p. 34; T.J., p. 32.]

[Footnote 7:  The Middle Kingdom, Vol.  I., p. 531.]

[Footnote 8:  “The frog in the well knows not the great ocean.”  This proverb, so freely quoted throughout Chinese Asia, and in recent years so much applied to themselves by the Japanese, is of Hindu origin and is found in the Sanskrit.]

[Footnote 9:  This is shown with literary skill and power in a modern popular work, the title of which, Dai Nippon Kai-biyaku Yurai-iki, which, very freely indeed, may be translated Instances of Divine Interposition in Behalf of Great Japan.  A copy of this work was presented to the writer by the late daimi[=o] of Echizen, and was read with interest as containing the common people’s ideas about their country and history.  It was published in Yedo in 1856, while Japan was still excited over the visits of the American and European fleets.  On the basis of the information furnished in this work General Le Gendre wrote his influential book, Progressive Japan, in which a number of quotations from the Kai-biyaku may be read.]

[Footnote 10:  In the Kojiki, pp. 101-104, we have the poetical account of the abdication of the lord of Idzumo in favor of the Yamato conqueror, on condition that the latter should build a temple and have him honored among the gods.  One of the rituals contains the congratulatory address of the chieftains of Idzumo, on their surrender to “the first Mikado, Jimmu Tenn[=o].”  See also T.J., p. 206.]

[Footnote 11:  “The praying for Harvest, or Toshigoi no Matsuri, was celebrated on the 4th day of the 2d month of each year, at the capital in the Jin-Gi-Kuan or office for the Worship of the Shint[=o] gods, and in the provinces by the chiefs of the local administrations.  At the Jin-Gi-Kuan there were assembled the ministers of state, the functionaries of that office, the priests and priestesses of 573 temples, containing 737 shrines, which were kept up at the expense of the Mikado’s treasury, while the governors of the provinces superintended in the districts under their administration the performance of rites in honor of 2,395 other shrines.  It would not be easy to state the exact number of deities to whom these 3,132 shrines were dedicated.  A glance over the list in the 9th and 10th books of the Yengishiki shows at once that there were many gods who were worshipped in more than half-a-dozen different localities at the same time; but exact calculation is impossible, because in many cases only the names of the temples are given, and we are left quite in the dark as to the individuality of the gods to whom they were sacred.  Besides these 3,132 shrines, which are distinguished as Shikidai, that is contained in the catalogue of the Yengishiki, there were a large number of enumerated shrines in temples scattered all over the country, in every village or hamlet, of which it was impossible to take any