[Footnote 9:  Histoire de l’Eglise, Vol.  I, p. 490; Rein, p. 277.  Takayama is spoken of in the Jesuit Records as Justo Ucondono.  A curious book entitled Justo Ucondono, Prince of Japan, in which the writer, who is “less attentive to points of style than to matters of faith,” labors to show that “the Bible alone” is “found wanting,” and only the “Teaching Church” is worthy of trust, was published in Baltimore, in 1854.]

[Footnote 10:  How Hideyoshi made use of the Shin sect of Buddhists to betray the Satsuma clansmen is graphically told in Mr. J.H.  Gubbin’s paper, Hideyoshi and the Satsuma Clan, T.A.S.J., Vol.  VIII, pp. 124-128, 143.]

[Footnote 11:  Corea the Hermit Nation, Chaps.  XII.-XXI., pp. 121-123; Mr. W.G.  Aston’s Hideyoshi’s Invasion of Korea, T.A.S.J., Vol.  VI., p. 227; IX, pp. 87, 213; XI., p. 117; Rev. G.H.  Jones’s The Japanese Invasion, The Korean Repository, Seoul, 1892.]

[Footnote 12:  Brave Little Holland and What She Taught Us, Boston, 1893, p. 247.]

[Footnote 13:  See picture and description of this temple—­“fairly typical of Japanese Buddhist architecture,” Chamberlain’s Handbook for Japan, p. 26; G.A.  Cobbold’s, Religion in Japan, London, 1894, p. 72.]

[Footnote 14:  T.A.S.J., see Vol.  VI., pp. 46, 51, for the text of the edicts.]

[Footnote 15:  M.E., p. 262, Chamberlain’s Handbook for Japan, p. 59.]

[Footnote 16:  The Origin of Spanish and Portuguese Rivalry in Japan, by E.M.  Satow, T.A.S.J., Vol.  XVIII., p. 133.]

[Footnote 17:  See Chapter VIII., W.G.  Dixon’s Gleanings from Japan.]

[Footnote 18:  T.A.S.J., Vol.  VI., pp. 48-50.]

[Footnote 19:  In the inscription upon the great bell, at the temple containing the image of Dai Buts[)u] or Great Buddha, reared by Hideyori and his mother, one sentence contained the phrase Kokka anko, ka and Lo being Chinese for Iye and yas[(u], which the Yedo ruler professed to believe mockery.  In another sentence, “On the East it welcomes the bright moon, and on the West bids farewell to the setting sun,” Iyeyas[)u] discovered treason.  He considered himself the rising sun, and Hideyori the setting moon.—­Chamberlain’s Hand-book for Japan, p. 300.]

[Footnote 20:  I have found the Astor Library in New York especially rich in works of this sort.]

[Footnote 21:  Nitobe’s United States and Japan, p. 13, note.]

[Footnote 22:  This insurrection has received literary treatment at the hands of the Japanese in Shimabara, translated in The Far East for 1872; Woolley’s Historical Notes on Nagasaki, T.A.S.J., Vol.  IX., p. 125; Koeckebakker and the Arima Rebellion, by Dr. A.J.C.  Geerts, T.A.S.J., Vol.  XI., 51; Inscriptions on Shimabara and Amakusa, by Henry Stout, T.A.S.J., Vol.  VII, p. 185.]

[Footnote 23:  “Persecution extirpated Christianity from Japan.”—­History of Rationalism, Vol.  II, p. 15.]