able document was prepared by Count Ito Hirobumi. An official
translation was published at Yokohama in 1889.

341 In the official list Jingo is not reckoned, and the time of her
reign is counted with that of her son and successor.

342 From _Japanese Chronological Tables_, by William Bramsen, 1880.

The system of counting from year-periods (_nengo_) was introduced
from China. These periods of Japanese history do not correspond to
the reigns of the emperors. A new one was chosen whenever it was
deemed necessary to commemorate an auspicious or ward off a malign
event. By a notification issued in 1872 it was announced that
hereafter the year-period should be changed but once during the
reign of an emperor. The current period, _Meiji_ (Enlightened
Peace), will therefore continue during the reign of the present
emperor.

The numbers in the second column of this table indicate the years as
counted from the founding of the empire by Jimmu Tenno. According to
the official chronology this occurred B.C. 660.

343 Translated from the chronology of the shoguns in _Mittheilungen der
deutschen Gesellschaft fur Natur und Volkerkunde Ostasiens_, Heft 3,
1873.

344 The translation of these laws of Shotoku Taishi was furnished by Mr.
Tsuji Shinji, late vice-minister of state for education, and by Mr.
Matsumoto Kumpei.

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