]
[Footnote 12: Kern's Saddharma-Pundarika, pp. 311, 314; Davids's
Buddhism p. 208; The Phoenix, Vol. I., p. 169; S. and H., p. 502; Du
Bose's Dragon, Demon, and Image, p. 407; Fuso Mimi Bukuro, p. 134;
Hough's Corean Collections, Washington, 1893, p. 480, plate xxviii.]
[Footnote 13: Japan in History, Folk-lore and Art, pp. 86, 80-88; A
Japanese Grammar, by J.J. Hoffman, p. 10; T.J., pp. 465-470.]
[Footnote 14: This is the essence of Buddhism, and was for centuries
repeated and learned by heart throughout the empire:
"Love and enjoyment disappear,
What in our world endureth here?
E'en should this day it oblivion be rolled,
'Twas only a vision that leaves me cold."
]
[Footnote 15: This legend suggests the mediaeval Jewish story, that
Ezra, the scribe, could write with five pens at once; Hearn's Glimpses
of Unfamiliar Japan, pp. 29-33.]
[Footnote 16: Brave Little Holland, and What She Taught Us, p. 124.]
[Footnote 17: T.J., pp. 75, 342; Chamberlain's Hand-book for Japan, p.
41; M.E., p. 162.]
[Footnote 18: T.A.S.J., Vol. II., p. 101; S. and H., p. 176.]
[Footnote 19: It was for lifting with his walking-stick the curtain
hanging before the shrine of this Kami that Arinori Mori, formerly
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