lain, _Transactions of the
Asiatic Society of Japan_, vol. x., Supplement.

30 See Chamberlain's translation of _Kojiki_, or _Records of Ancient
Matters_, _Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan_, vol. x.,
Supplement.

31 Satow, "Ancient Japanese Rituals," _Transactions of the Asiatic
Society of Japan_, vols. vii. and ix.

32 Satow, _Westminster Review_, July, 1878.

33 See Appendix I.

34 Bramsen, _Japanese Chronological Tables_, p. 30.

35 I remember presenting this point to a Japanese scholar in this way,
and he answered me that he thought this great age of the Japanese
emperors no more wonderful or unreasonable than the ages of the
patriarchs in the Bible.

36 "I wished to give these legends at once with the best effect, and at
the same time with a perpetual mark, not to be mistaken by the most
careless reader,--they are legends and not history."--_The History of
Rome_ by Thomas Arnold, D.D., 1864, Preface, p. vii.

37 For the translation of these names, and for the principal events of
these myths, we rely upon Mr. Chamberlain's translation of the
_Kojiki_, and his admirable notes and introduction. _Transactions of
the Asiatic Society of Japan_, vol. x., Supplement.

38 This is supposed to have been one of the small islands off the coast
of Awaji in the Inland sea.

39 An island about fifty miles long in the Inland sea.

40 This probably means that the sword was ten breadths of the hand in
length.

41 The Japanese name of this most venerated goddess is
Amaterasu-o-mi-kami.

42 There seemed to have been an old superstition about flaying from the
tail toward the head.

43 This is one of the ancient names of the Main island of Japan.

44 The name of this prince of which the translation is here given is
usually shortened to Ninigi-no-Mikoto.

45 Nakatomi-no-Muraji is also among these, who was the ancestor of the
Fujiwara family that from the reign of the Emperor Tenji attained
great political distinction.

46 Dr. Rein in 1875 was shown an old sword on the top of this mountain
which is claimed to have been carried on this occasion.--Rein's
_Japan_, p. 214, note.

47 This canonical name was given to him in the reign of the Emperor
Kwammu, who commanded Mifune-no-Mikoto to select suitable canonical
n