likely to be in a
private house.--_Japan Weekly Mail_, 1890, p. 581.

129 For a description of this locality, which is justly famed in
Japanese annals, see Satow and Hawes' _Handbook_, p. 56.

130 See Chamberlain's _Handbook_, 1891, p. 337.

131 Quite an animated and interesting controversy took place a few years
ago with reference to this suicide of Kusunoki. Popular opinion
strongly justifies the act and rewards with its highest approval the
memory of the patriot. But Mr. Fukuzawa, one of the most radical of
the public men of to-day and an active and trenchant writer,
condemned the act as indefensible and cowardly.

132 Mr. Griffis says that when he resided in Fukui in A.D. 1871--more
than five hundred years after the event,--he saw the grave of the
heroic Nitta almost daily strewed with flowers.--_The Mikado's
Empire_, 1876, p. 190.

133 Satow and Hawes' _Handbook_, p. 356.

134 It is an evidence of the feeling which still exists towards the
Ashikaga shoguns that in 1863 these figures were taken from the
To-ji-in and beheaded and the heads pilloried in the dry bed of the
Kamogawa, at the spot where it is customary to expose the heads of
the worst criminals. Several of the men who were guilty of this
outrage were captured and were put into the hands of various daimyos
by whom they were kept as prisoners.--Satow and Hawes' _Handbook_, p.
357.

135 See the full account of tea ceremonies in Chamberlain's _Things
Japanese_, 1892, p. 404.

136 The official list of emperors will be found in Appendix I. The names
of the northern which are not included in this list are as follows:

DATE OF ACCESSION.

Komio, 1996 years from Jimmu, 1336 A.D.
Shuko, 2009 years from Jimmu, 1349 A.D.
Go-Kogen, 2012 years from Jimmu, 1352 A.D.
Go-Enyu, 2032 years from Jimmu, 1372 A.D.
Go-Komatsu, 2043 years from Jimmu, 1383 A.D.

137 See _Asiatic Society Transactions_, vol. xiii., p. 139.

138 It is said that in this disastrous time the poverty of the country
was so great that when, in A.D. 1500, Go-Tsuchimikado died at his
palace in Kyoto, the corpse was kept for forty days because the
means for the usual funeral expenses could not be had. M. von Brandt
as quoted in Rein's _Japan_, p. 261.

139 Mr. W. A. Woolley, in a paper read before t