edition, p. 122,
Japan is credited with no less than fifty-one active volcanoes.

9 The word _gawa_ (river) takes the form _kawa_ when euphony so
requires.

10 Dr. Rein was the first clearly to apprehend and state the influence
of the northeast monsoon on the climate of Japan. See Rein's
_Japan_, p. 104.

11 Camellia trees are frequently found from twenty to twenty-five feet
high.

12 Chamberlain, _Asiatic Society Transactions_, vol. xi., p. 162.

13 These details of the population, area, etc., are taken from the
government publication, _Resume Statistique de l'Empire du Japon_,
1892.

14 In the population of the imperial cities is included that of the
suburban districts politically attached to them.

_ 15 Resume Statistique_ (Government publication), 1892, p. 11.

_ 16 Asiatic Society Transactions_, supplement to vol. x., p. 213.

17 Batchelor, _Asiatic Society Transactions_, vol. x., p. 211.

18 Batchelor, _Asiatic Society Transactions_, vol. x., p. 216.

19 Miss Bird's _Unbeaten Tracks in Japan_, vol. ii., p. 96.

20 Professor E. S. Morse, _Memoirs of the University of Tokio_, vol.
i., part i.

21 Henry von Siebold, _Notes on Japanese Archaeology_, p. 14.

22 "But I must tell you one thing still concerning that island (Japan)
(and 'tis the same with the other Indian Islands), that if the
natives take prisoner an enemy who cannot pay a ransom, he who hath
the prisoner summons all his friends and relations, and they put the
prisoner to death, and then they cook him and eat him, and they say
there is no meat in the world so good!"--_The Book of Ser Marco
Polo_, London, 1875, vol. ii., p. 245.

23 Professor Milne, _Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan_,
vol. viii., p. 82.

24 Rev. John Batchelor, _Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan_,
vol. x., p. 209.

25 Hildreth's _Japan_, etc., p. 337.

_ 26 Mittheilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft_, etc., as reviewed in
_The Chrisanthemum_, May, 1883.

27 Rein's _Japan_, p. 383.

28 "We know that for all points of detail and for keeping a correct
account of time, tradition is worthless."--_The History of Rome_, by
Rev. Thomas Arnold, D.D., 1864, p. 10.

29 For easy access to this valuable Japanese work we are indebted to
the translation by Basil Hall Chamber