Oh how potent is his merit,
  Without bounds in all the worlds!
]

[Footnote 34:  Fuso Mimi Bukuro, p. 129.]

[Footnote 35:  M.E., pp. 287-290, 513-514; Perry’s Narrative, pp. 471, 472; Our Neighborhood, pp. 119-124.  The following epitaphs are gathered from various sources: 

“This stone marks the remains of the believer who never grows old.”

“The believing woman Yu-ning, Happy was the day of her departure.”

“Multitudes fill the graves.”

“Only by this vehicle—­the coffin—­can we enter Hades.”

“As the floating grass is blown by the gentle breeze, or the glancing ripples of autumn disappear when the sun goes down, or as a ship returns to her old shore—­so is life.  It is a vapor, a morning-tide.”

“Buddha himself wishes to hear the name of the deceased that he may enter life.”

“He who has left humanity is now perfected by Buddha’s name, as the withered moss by the dew.”

“Life is like a candle in the wind.”

“The wise make our halls illustrious, and their monuments endure for ages.”

“What permanency is there to the glory of the world?  It goes from the sight like hoar-frost in the sun.”

“If men wish to enter the joys of heavenly light, Let them smell the fragrance of the law of Buddha.”

“Whoever wishes to have his merit reach even to the abode of demons, let him, with us, and all living, become perfect in the doctrine.”]

[Footnote 36:  Rev. C.B.  Hawarth in the New York Independent, January 18, 1894.]

[Footnote 37:  In 781 the Buddhist monk Kei-shun dedicated a chapel to Jizo, on whom he conferred the epithet of Sho-gun or general, to suit the warlike tastes of the Japanese people.—­S. and H., p. 384.  So also Hachiman became the god of war because adopted as the patron deity of the Genji warriors.—­S. and H., p. 70.]

[Footnote 38:  Corea, the Hermit Nation, p. 90.]

[Footnote 39:  Dixon’s Japan, p. 41; S. and H., Japan, passim; Rein’s Japan; Story of the Nations, Japan, by David Murray, p. 201, note; Dening’s life of Toyotomi Hideyoshi; M.E., Chapters XV., XVI., XX., XXIII., XXIV.; Gazetteer of Echizen; Shiga’s History of Nations, T[=o]ki[=o], 1888, pp. 115, 118; T.A.S.J., Vol.  VIII., pp. 94, 134, 143.]

[Footnote 40:  T.A.S.J., Vol.  VIII., Hideyoshi and the Satsuma Clan in the Sixteenth Century, by J.H.  Gubbins; The Times of Taik[=o], by R. Brinkley, in The Japan Times.]

[Footnote 41:  The Copy of the Buddhist Tripitaka, or Northern Collection, made by order of the Emperor, Wan-Li, in the sixteenth century, when the Chinese capital (King) was changed from the South (Nan) to the North (Pe), was reproduced in Japan in 1679 and again in 1681-83, and in over two thousand volumes, making a pile a hundred feet high, was presented by the Japanese Government, through the Junior Prime Minister, Mr. Tomomi Iwakura, to the Library of the India Office.  See Samuel Beal’s The Buddhist Tripitaka, as it is known in China and Japan, A Catalogue and Compendious Report, London, 1876.  The library has been rearranged by Mr. Bunyin Nanjio, who has published the result of his labors, with Sanskrit equivalents of the titles and with notes of the highest value.]