nd terms Tokyo town was in an uncontrolled disorder. Among these
human foxes there was a guild, and this was the source of the tumult."]

[Footnote 4: Mizuno Juro[u]zaemon Shigemoto, son of Hiuga no Kami
Katsunari. He was ordered to commit _seppuku_ (cut belly) for the
assassination of Bandzuin Cho[u]bei: Kwanbun 4 year 3 month 27 day (22
April 1664).]

[Footnote 5: _Kokorozashi wa matsu no ha to moshimasu_.]

[Footnote 6: Second daughter of Hidetada; wife of the Prince of
Echizen.]

[Footnote 7: At the severest cold, clad in breech clout, or thinnest of
white linen, the pilgrim after sunset makes his round of the temples for
worship.]

[Footnote 8: The Pluto of Indian (Yama), Chinese and Japanese (Emma)
mythology. Dai-O[u] (Great King). Cf. Eitel's "Chinese Buddhism," p.
207.]

[Footnote 9: Other accounts say that these heroes used--pith bullets.]

[Footnote 10: He was of great strength, and is said to have carried the
Sho[u]gun in his palanquin on his shoulders himself back to Edo in the
flight from Suzume no Miya. With the approval of Iyemitsu he forced his
way into the castle gate, thereby incurring official censure and
banishment to an island--to Hitotsu no Jima, or the present Ishikawa
Jima at the mouth of the Sumidagawa! The sentence was purely formal. His
favour with Iyemitsu was very high owing to this Tsuritenjo[u] (hanging
ceiling) affair.]

[Footnote 11: These stories were not likely to be published under a
paternal Government; except in the mouths and tales of the people. Too
many scandals have been "excerpted" from the official histories and
records of Nippon to have a robust confidence in what is left. The
_ko[u]dan_ lecturers and writers make the Senhimegimi, eldest daughter
of Hidetada, the heroine of the scandals emanating from the Yoshida
Goten. History refers them to the Takata no Kata. But this lady left
powerful issue. Not so the Senhimegimi (Princess Sen), in ways a
splendid woman. Better known as the Tenju-in-Den she lies buried under a
most imposing monument at the Dendzu-in in Tokyo. Tenju-in-Den lived to
over eighty years; the Takata no Kata died, aged seventy-two years.]

[Footnote 12: _Itsuwari to omoi sutenaba ikani sen; Sue kakete chigiri
mo aru wo afu yo sae; Iku sue to fuku chigiru makoto wo._ (1) _Hedatsu
koro mono urami to zo omou._ (2)]

[Footnote 13: Burned down a few years ago: a fire disastrous to the
temple records.]

[Footnote 14: Dosanbashi is the site facing the c