[Footnote 2:  B.N., p. 104.]

[Footnote 3:  Literally, I yield to, or I adore the Boundless or the Immeasurable Buddha.]

[Footnote 4:  A Chinese or Japanese volume is much smaller than the average printed volume in Europe.]

[Footnote 5:  Legacy of Iyeyas[)u], Section xxviii.  Doctrinally, this famous document, written probably long after Iyeyas[)u]’s death and canonization as a gongen, is a mixture or Riy[=o]bu of Confucianism and Buddhism.]

[Footnote 6:  At first glance a forcible illustration, since the Japanese proverb declares that “A sea-voyage is an inch of hell.”  And yet the original saying of Ry[=u]-ju, now proverbial in Buddhadom, referred to the ease of sailing over the water, compared with the difficulty of surmounting the obstacles of land travel in countries not yet famous for good roads.  See B.N., p. 111.]

[Footnote 7:  Fuso Mimi Bukuro, p. 108; Descriptive Notes on the Rosaries as used by the different Sects of Buddhists in Japan, T.A.S.J., Vol.  IX., pp. 173-182.]

[Footnote 8:  B.N., p. 122.]

[Footnote 9:  S. and H., p. 361.]

[Footnote 10:  S. and H., pp. 90-92; Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, Vol.  II., pp. 242-253.]

[Footnote 11:  These three sutras are those most in favor with the J[=o]-d[=o] sect also, they are described, B.N., 104-106, and their tenets are referred to on pp. 260, 261.]

[Footnote 12:  For modern statements of Shin tenets and practices, see E.J.  Reed’s Japan, Vol.  I., pp. 84-86; The Chrysanthemum, April, 1881, pp. 109-115; Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, Vol.  II., 242-246; B.N., 122-131.  Edkins’s Religion in China, p. 153.  The Chrysanthemum, April, 1881, p. 115.]

[Footnote 13:  S. and H., p. 361; B.N., pp. 105, 106.  Toward the end of the Amitayus-dhyana sutra, Buddha says:  “Let not one’s voice cease, but ten times complete the thought, and repeat Namo’mit[=a]bh[=a]ya Buddh[=a]ya (Namu Amida Butsu) or adoration to Amitb[=a]ha Buddha.”]

[Footnote 14:  M.E., pp. 164-166.]

[Footnote 15:  Schaff’s Encyclopaedia, Article, Buddhism.]

[Footnote 16:  On the Tenets of the Shin Shiu, or “True Sect” of Buddhists, T.A.S.J., Vol.  XIV., p. 1.]

[Footnote 17:  The Gobunsho, or Ofumi, of Renny[=o] Sh[=o]nin, T.A.S.J., Vol.  XVII., pp. 101-143.]

[Footnote 18:  At the gorgeous services in honor of the founder of the great Higashi Hongwanji Western Temple of the Original Vow at Asakusa, T[=o]ki[=o], November 21 to 28, annually, the women attend wearing a head-dress called “horn-hider,” which seems to have been named in allusion to a Buddhist text which says:  “A woman’s exterior is that of a saint, but her heart is that of a demon.”—­Chamberlain’s Hand-book for Japan, p. 82; T.A.S.J., Vol.  XVII., pp. 106, 141; Sacred Books of the East, Vol.  XXI., pp. 251-254.]