ment, p. 25.

232 In the _Legacy of Ieyasu_ will be found the following statement:
"The _fudai_ are those _samurai_ who followed me and proffered me
their fealty before the overthrow of the castle of Osaka in the
province of Sesshu. The _tozama_ are those _samurai_ who returned
and submitted to me after its downfall, of whom there were
eighty-six."--See _Legacy of Ieyasu_, cap. vii.

_ 233 Ancien Japon_, vol. ii.

234 Dickson's _Japan_, p. 303.

235 See _Legacy of Ieyasu_, cap. xiv.

236 See _Legacy of Ieyasu_, cap. xxxvii.

237 For the general history of the sword, see Mitford's _Tales of Old
Japan_, vol. i., p. 70; T. R. H. McClatchie's, The sword of Japan,
_Asiatic Society Transactions_, vol. vi., p. 55; Chamberlain's
_Things Japanese_, 1892, p. 396. For the mode of manufacture, see
Rein's _Industries of Japan_, p. 430; and especially for the
artistic decoration of swords, see Satow and Hawes' _Hand-book_, p.
114.

238 I have been told by a young Satsuma _samurai_ that when he was a boy
it was a test of skill with the sword, to set a chop-stick (which
was about six inches long) on its end and before it could fall over
to draw a sword from its scabbard and cut it in two.

239 For an account of _hara-kiri_ see the "Story of the Forty-Seven
Ronins" in Mitford's _Tales of Old Japan_, vol. i., p. 1.

240 See _Legacy of Ieyasu_, cap. xxxi.

241 See _Legacy of Ieyasu_, cap. xxviii.

242 T. R. H. McClatchie, "The Castle of Yedo," _Asiatic Society
Transactions_, vol. vi., part 1, p. 131.

243 As illustrative of Buddhism at its greatest splendor we give here
the figures of the great bronze image of Buddha at Kamakura, and of
the great bell at the temple of Daibutsu in Kyoto. [Transcriber's
Note: This bell is shown as the Frontispiece to the book.] The
former was erected about A.D. 1252 after plans initiated by Yoritomo
before his death. The statue in its sitting posture is nearly fifty
feet in height. It is constructed of separate plates of bronze
brazed together. Formerly it was enclosed in a temple, but this was
twice destroyed by tidal waves, and since its last destruction in
1494 it has not been rebuilt.

The bell given in the illustration is that at the temple of
Daibutsu, the inscription on which is said to have offended Iey