pointed out, that the _Thousand Character Essay_ was not written
until two centuries after the date assigned to the advent of Wani.

81 The _Kojiki's_ statement is that the elder brother was banished to
Iyo.

82 The name, "Island of the Dragon-Fly" had already been given to the
Main island by Jimmu Tenno.

83 In these early days a _muro_ or excavation of the earth, roofed with
timber, was often used as a residence. See p. 68.

84 In this story the princes are represented as boys, but as they fled
on the murder of their father by the Emperor Yuriyaku before his
accession, this must have been at least twenty-eight years before;
so that they could not have been less than forty years of age.

85 After the triumph of Buddhism a temple called Tennoji was erected
near this place in honor of this image, which was miraculously
rescued from the sea and is still preserved at this temple.

86 See the laws which he compiled and published as found in the 12th
volume of _Dai Nihon Shi_, Appendix IV.

87 This must mean that improved methods of silk culture were
introduced, for we have seen that this art was already known to the
Japanese.

88 Bramsen's _Japanese Chronological Tables_, Tokio, 1880, p. 18.

89 The author is indebted to the valuable paper read before the Asiatic
Society of Japan by Willis Norton Whitney, M.D., for much of the
information concerning medicine in Japan.--_Asiatic Society
Transactions_, vol. xii., part iv., p. 329.

90 For an enumeration of these boards and the officers and duties of
each, see Walter Dickson's _Japan_, p. 72.

91 See a note by Mr. Satow in Adams' _History of Japan_, London, vol.
i., p. 24.

_ 92 Asiatic Society Transactions_, vol. iii., part i.

_ 93 Asiatic Society Transactions_, vol. x., Supplement.

94 The _Kojiki_ has been translated into English by Professor B. H.
Chamberlain, _Asiatic Society Transactions_, vol. x., Supplement.

95 See Mori Arinori's introduction to _Education in Japan_, New York,
1873, p. 17.

96 See a paper on "Abdication and Adoption," by Mr. Shigeno An-Eki,
translated by Mr. Walter Dening, in _Asiatic Society Transactions_,
vol. xv., p. 72.

97 His predecessor died A.D. 661, and there was an _interregnum_ during
which Tenji was regent till A.D. 668, when he was made e