[Footnote 4:  Kojiki, Section IX.]

[Footnote 5:  Dr. Joseph Edkins, D.D., author of Chinese Buddhism, who believes that the primeval religious history of men is recoverable, says in Early Spread of Religious Ideas, Especially in the Far East, p. 29, “In Japan Amateras[)u], ... in fact, as I suppose, Mithras written in Japanese, though the Japanese themselves are not aware of this etymology.”  Compare Kojiki, Introduction, pp. lxv.-lxvii.]

[Footnote 6:  Kojiki, p. xlii.]

[Footnote 7:  T.A.S.J., Vol.  III., Appendix, p. 67.]

[Footnote 8:  E. Satow, Revival of Pure Shint[=o], pp. 67-68.]

[Footnote 9:  This curious agreement between the Japanese and other ethnic traditions in locating “Paradise,” the origin of the human family and of civilization, at the North Pole, has not escaped the attention of Dr. W.F.  Warren, President of Boston University, who makes extended reference to it in his interesting and suggestive book, Paradise Found:  The Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole; A Study of the Prehistoric World, Boston, 1885.]

[Footnote 10:  The pure Japanese numerals equal in number the fingers; with the borrowed Chinese terms vast amounts can be expressed.]

[Footnote 11:  This custom was later revived, T.A.S.J., pp. 28, 31.  Mitford’s Tales of Old Japan, Vol.  II., p. 57; M.E., pp. 156, 238.]

[Footnote 12:  See in Japanese Fairy World, “How the Sun-Goddess was enticed out of her Cave.”  For the narrative see Kojiki, pp. 54-59; T.A.S.J., Vol.  II., 128-133.]

[Footnote 13:  See Chomei and Wordsworth, A Literary Parallel, by J.M.  Dixon, T.A.S.J., Vol.  XX., pp. 193-205; Anthologie Japonaise, by Leon de Rosny; Chamberlain’s Classical Poetry of the Japanese; Suyemats[)u]’s Genji Monogatari, London, 1882.]

[Footnote 14:  Oftentimes in studying the ancient rituals, those who imagine that the word Kami should be in all cases translated gods, will be surprised to see what puerility, bathos, or grandiloquence, comes out of an attempt to express a very simple, it may be humiliating, experience.]

[Footnote 15:  Mythology and Religious Worship of the Japanese, Westminster Review, July, 1878; Ancient Japanese Rituals, T.A.S.J., Vols.  VII., IX.; Esoteric Shint[=o], by Percival Lowell, T.A.S.J, Vol.  XXI.]

[Footnote 16:  Compare Sections IX. and XXIII. of the Kojiki.]

[Footnote 17:  This indeed seems to be the substance of the modern official expositions of Shint[=o] and the recent Rescripts of the Emperor, as well as of much popular literature, including the manifestoes or confessions found on the persons of men who have “consecrated” themselves as “the instruments of Heaven for punishing the wicked,” i.e., assassinating obnoxious statesmen.  See The Ancient Religion, M.E., pp. 96-100; The Japan Mail, passim.]

[Footnote 18:  Revival of Pure Shint[=o], pp. 25-38.]

[Footnote 19:  Japanese Homes, by E.S.  Morse, pp. 228-233, note, p. 832.]