[Footnote 10:  “We have consecrated ourselves as the instruments of Heaven for punishing the wicked man,”—­from the document submitted to the Yedo authorities, by the assassins of Ii Kamon no Kami, in Yedo, March 23, 1861, and signed by seventeen men of the band.  For numerous other instances, see the voluminous literature of the Forty-seven R[=o]nins, and the Meiji political literature (1868-1893), political and historical documents, assassins’ confessions, etc., contained in that thesarus of valuable documents, The Japan Mail; Kinse Shiriaku, or Brief History of Japan, 1853-1869, Yokohama, 1873, and Nihon Guaishi, translated by Mr. Ernest Satow; Adams’s History of Japan; T.A.S.J., Vol.  XX., p. 145; Life and Letters of Yokoi Heishiro; Life of Sir Harry Parkes, London, 1893, etc., for proof of this assertion.]

[Footnote 11:  For proof of this, as to vocabulary, see Professor B.H.  Chamberlain’s Grammars and other philological works; Mr. J.H.  Gubbins’s Dictionary of Chinese-Japanese Words, with Introduction, three vols., T[=o]ki[=o] 1892; and for change in structure, Rev. C. Munzinger, on The Psychology of the Japanese Language in the Transactions of the Gorman Asiatic Society of Japan.  See also Mental Characteristics of the Japanese, T.A.S.J., Vol.  XIX., pp. 17-37.]

[Footnote 12:  See The Ghost of Sakura, in Mitfoid’s Tales of Old Japan, Vol.  II, p. 17.]

[Footnote 13:  M.E., 277-280.  See an able analysis of Japanese feudal society, by M.F.  Dickins, Life of Sir Harry Parkes, pp. 8-13; M.E., pp. 277-283.]

[Footnote 14:  This subject is discussed in Professor Chamberlain’s works; Mr. Percival Lowell’s The Soul of the Far East; Dr. M.L.  Gordon’s An American Missionary in Japan; Dr. J.H.  De Forest’s The Influence of Pantheism, in The Japan Evangelist, 1894.]

[Footnote 15:  T.A.S.J., Vol.  XVII., p. 96.]

[Footnote 16:  The Forty Seven-R[=o]nins, Tales of Old Japan, Vol.  I.; Chiushiugura, by F.V.  Dickens; The Loyal R[=o]nins, by Edward Greey; Chiushiugura, translated by Enouye.]

[Footnote 17:  See Dr. J.H.  De Forest’s article in the Andover Review, May, June, 1893, p. 309.  For details and instances, see the Japanese histories, novels, and dramas; M.E.; Rein’s Japan; S. and H.; T.A.S.J., etc.  Life of Sir Harry Parkes, p. 11 et passim.]

[Footnote 18:  M.E. pp. 180-192, 419.  For the origin and meaning of hara-kiri, see T.J., pp. 199-201; Mitford’s Tales of Old Japan, Vol.  I., Appendix; Adams’s History of Japan, story of Shimadz[)u].]

[Footnote 19:  M.E., p. 133.]

[Footnote 20:  For light upon the status of the Japanese family, see F.O.  Adams’s History of Japan, Vol.  II., p. 384; Kinse Shiriaku, p. 137; Naomi Tamura, The Japanese Bride, New York, 1893; E.H.  House, Yone Santo, A Child of Japan, Chicago, 1888; Japanese Girls and Women, by Miss A.M.  Bacon, Boston, 1891; T.J., Article Woman, and in Index, Adoption, Children, etc.; M.E., 1st ed., p. 585; Marriage in Japan, T.A.S.J., Vol.  XIII., p. 114; and papers in the German Asiatic Society of Japan.]