mperor.

98 See p. 47, note.

99 Quoted in Henry von Siebold's _Japanese Archaeology_, Yokohama 1879,
p. 8.

100 See p. 58.

101 Satow and Hawes' _Handbook of Japan_, London, 1884.

102 For ten years preceding 794 the capital was a wanderer.

103 See the _Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan_, vol. viii.,
p. 88. The inscription is in part as follows:

Castle of Taga,
Distant from the capital, Ri 1500
Distant from the frontier of Yezo, Ri 120
Distant from Hitachi, Ri 412
Distant from Shimotsuke, Ri 274
Distant from Makkatsu, Ri 3000.

_ 104 Education in Japan_, New York, 1873, p. 17.

105 See p. 47.

106 These instances are taken from the paper on abdication and adoption,
by Shigeno An-eki, as translated by Mr. Walter Dening, _Asiatic
Society Transactions_, vol. xv., p. 74.

107 See Chamberlain's _Things Japanese_, under the article on
abdication. Yokohama, 1892.

108 See p. 66 _et seq._

109 At the time that Dickson collected his statistics of the families of
the court, two of the Sugawara family were teachers of the young
emperor. Six families of _kuges_ count their descent from the
Sugawara. Dickson's _Japan_, London, 1869, p. 59.

110 See chapter on "Education in the Early Ages," by Otsuki Sinji, in
_Japanese Education_, New York, 1876, p. 64.

111 While I write these lines there is hanging before me a _kakemono_
representing Sugawara Michizane, which it has been proposed to hang
in every public school under the care of the Department of
Education, as an emblem of the true scholarly temperament.

112 See p. 132.

113 See Satow and Hawes' _Handbook_, p. 383.

114 He was born in A.D. 1146 and therefore was twelve years older than
Yoshitsune.

115 Doves are not eaten by the Minamoto to this day, owing, it is said,
to this miraculous interposition in behalf of Yoritomo.

116 About A.D. 1618 Hakone was created a barrier to separate the eastern
from the central provinces. Persons were not allowed to go through
this barrier without a passport.

117 In A.D. 1286, more than a century after his death, a monument was
erected to Kiyomori in Hyogo which still exists. Satow and Hawes'
_Handbook_, p. 338.

118 The title of shogun is said to have been created by the Emperor
Sujin, who divided the empire i