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.]
[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.]
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