FOOTNOTES:[1]The Soul of a People.[2]Professor T. Inouye's little pamphlet, published first in French, entitledSur le Développement des Idées Philosophiques au Japon avant l'Introduction de la Civilisation Européenne, will give you some idea of our philosophic systems. For a serious perusal, its German translation, annotated and amplified, by Dr. A. Gramatzky (Kurze Übersicht über die Entwicklung der philosophischen Ideen in Japan, Berlin, 1897), is to be preferred.[3]Professor Milne,Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, vol. viii. p. 82.[4]Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, vol. xxv.[5]Memoirs of the Literary Department of the University of Tôkyô, vol. i.[6]Die körperlichen Eigenschaften der Japaner, vols. xxviii. and xxxii. ofMittheilungen der Gesellschaft für die Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens.[7]Cp. Bramsen'sJapanese Chronological Tables.[8]Legge'sThe Religion of China, p. 137.[9]Cp. Rhys Davids'Buddhism, p. 144.[10]Cp. T. Haga'sNote on Japanese Schools of Philosophy. T.A.S.J., vol. xx. pt. i. p. 134.[11]Faber'sDoctrines of Confucius, p. 33.[12]Cp. Dr. P. Carus'sLao-tze Tao-teh-king.[13]Cp.Sacred Books of the East, vol. xxix.[14]Cp.Sacred Books of the East, vol. xxix.[15]E. J. Eitel'sHandbook of Chinese Buddhism, p. 49.[16]Four years later the first temple of this school was opened in Hakata under the patronship of the Emperor Gotoba.[17]The first mention in books of a similar mode of death dates from the latter part of the twelfth century. But it does not seem that the custom became universal until a considerably later period.[18]B.H. Chamberlain'sBashô and the Japanese Epigram, T.A.S.J., vol. xxx. pt. ii.
[1]The Soul of a People.
[1]The Soul of a People.
[2]Professor T. Inouye's little pamphlet, published first in French, entitledSur le Développement des Idées Philosophiques au Japon avant l'Introduction de la Civilisation Européenne, will give you some idea of our philosophic systems. For a serious perusal, its German translation, annotated and amplified, by Dr. A. Gramatzky (Kurze Übersicht über die Entwicklung der philosophischen Ideen in Japan, Berlin, 1897), is to be preferred.
[2]Professor T. Inouye's little pamphlet, published first in French, entitledSur le Développement des Idées Philosophiques au Japon avant l'Introduction de la Civilisation Européenne, will give you some idea of our philosophic systems. For a serious perusal, its German translation, annotated and amplified, by Dr. A. Gramatzky (Kurze Übersicht über die Entwicklung der philosophischen Ideen in Japan, Berlin, 1897), is to be preferred.
[3]Professor Milne,Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, vol. viii. p. 82.
[3]Professor Milne,Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, vol. viii. p. 82.
[4]Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, vol. xxv.
[4]Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, vol. xxv.
[5]Memoirs of the Literary Department of the University of Tôkyô, vol. i.
[5]Memoirs of the Literary Department of the University of Tôkyô, vol. i.
[6]Die körperlichen Eigenschaften der Japaner, vols. xxviii. and xxxii. ofMittheilungen der Gesellschaft für die Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens.
[6]Die körperlichen Eigenschaften der Japaner, vols. xxviii. and xxxii. ofMittheilungen der Gesellschaft für die Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens.
[7]Cp. Bramsen'sJapanese Chronological Tables.
[7]Cp. Bramsen'sJapanese Chronological Tables.
[8]Legge'sThe Religion of China, p. 137.
[8]Legge'sThe Religion of China, p. 137.
[9]Cp. Rhys Davids'Buddhism, p. 144.
[9]Cp. Rhys Davids'Buddhism, p. 144.
[10]Cp. T. Haga'sNote on Japanese Schools of Philosophy. T.A.S.J., vol. xx. pt. i. p. 134.
[10]Cp. T. Haga'sNote on Japanese Schools of Philosophy. T.A.S.J., vol. xx. pt. i. p. 134.
[11]Faber'sDoctrines of Confucius, p. 33.
[11]Faber'sDoctrines of Confucius, p. 33.
[12]Cp. Dr. P. Carus'sLao-tze Tao-teh-king.
[12]Cp. Dr. P. Carus'sLao-tze Tao-teh-king.
[13]Cp.Sacred Books of the East, vol. xxix.
[13]Cp.Sacred Books of the East, vol. xxix.
[14]Cp.Sacred Books of the East, vol. xxix.
[14]Cp.Sacred Books of the East, vol. xxix.
[15]E. J. Eitel'sHandbook of Chinese Buddhism, p. 49.
[15]E. J. Eitel'sHandbook of Chinese Buddhism, p. 49.
[16]Four years later the first temple of this school was opened in Hakata under the patronship of the Emperor Gotoba.
[16]Four years later the first temple of this school was opened in Hakata under the patronship of the Emperor Gotoba.
[17]The first mention in books of a similar mode of death dates from the latter part of the twelfth century. But it does not seem that the custom became universal until a considerably later period.
[17]The first mention in books of a similar mode of death dates from the latter part of the twelfth century. But it does not seem that the custom became universal until a considerably later period.
[18]B.H. Chamberlain'sBashô and the Japanese Epigram, T.A.S.J., vol. xxx. pt. ii.
[18]B.H. Chamberlain'sBashô and the Japanese Epigram, T.A.S.J., vol. xxx. pt. ii.