[Footnote 24:  T.A.S.J., Vol.  VI., Part I., p. 62; M.E. pp. 531, 573.]

[Footnote 25:  Political, despite the attempt of many earnest members of the order to check this tendency to intermeddle in politics; see Dr. Murray’s Japan, p. 245, note, 246.]

[Footnote 26:  See abundant illustration in Leon Pages’ Histoire de la Religion Chretienne en Japon, a book which the author read while in Japan amid the scenes described.]

[Footnote 27:  The Japan Evangelist, Vol.  I., No. 2, p. 96.]

CHAPTER XII

TWO CENTURIES OF SILENCE

[Footnote 1:  See Diary of Richard Cocks, and Introduction by R.M.  Thompson, Hakluyt Publications, 1883.]

[Footnote 2:  For the extent of Japanese influence abroad, see M.E., p. 246; Rein, Nitobe, and Hildreth; Modern Japanese Adventurers, T.A.S.J., Vol.  VII., p. 191; The Intercourse between Japan and Siam in the Seventeenth Century, by E.M.  Satow, T.A.S.J., Vol.  XIII., p. 139; Voyage of the Dutch Ship Grol, T.A.S.J., Vol.  XI., p. 180.]

[Footnote 3:  The United States and Japan, p. 16.]

[Footnote 4:  See Professor J.H.  Wigmore’s elaborate work, Materials for the Study of Private Law in Old Japan, T.A.S.J., T[=o]ki[=o], 1892.]

[Footnote 5:  See the Legacy of Iyeyas[)u], by John Frederic Lowder, Yokohama, 1874, with criticisms and discussions by E.M.  Satow and others in the Japan Mail; Dixon’s Japan, Chapter VII.; Professor W.E.  Grigsby, in T.A.S.J., Vol.  III., Part II., p. 131, gives another version, with analysis, notes, and comments; Rein’s Japan, pp. 314, 315.]

[Footnote 6:  Old Japan in the days of its inclusiveness was a secret society on a vast scale, with every variety and degree of selfishness, mystery, secrecy, close-corporationism, and tomfoolery.  See article Esotericism in T.J., p. 143.]

[Footnote 7:  Since the abolition of feudalism, with the increase of the means of transportation, the larger freedom, and, at many points, improved morality, the population of Japan shows an unprecedented rate of increase.  The census taken in 1744 gave, as the total number of souls in the empire, 26,080,000 (E.J.  Reed’s Japan, Vol.  I., p. 236); that of 1872, 33,110,825; that of 1892, 41,089,910, showing a greater increase during the past twenty years than in the one hundred and thirty-eight years previous.  See Resume Statistique de l’Empire du Japon, T[=o]ki[=o], 1894; Professor Garrett Droppers’ paper on The Population of Japan during the Tokugawa Period, read June 27th, 1894; T.A.S.J., Vol.  XXII.]

[Footnote 8:  For the notable instance of Pere Sidotti, see M.E, p. 63; Sei Y[=o] Ki Buu, by S.R.  Brown, D.D., a translation of Arai Hakuseki’s narrative, Yedo, 1710, T.N.C.A.S.; Capture and Captivity of Pere Sidotti, T.A.S.J., Vol.  IX., p. 156; Christian Valley, T.A.S.J., Vol.  XVI., p. 207.]

[Footnote 9:  T.A.S.J., Vol.  I., p. 78, Vol.  VII., p. 323.]