no[u]ji of Kamakura.

[32] An ordinary disposition of these women; who often preferred their
Edo lover to such lot.

[33] _Ototoi oide_: It is the salutation of the good Buddhist to the
captured insect, thrown without and requested to return "the day before
yesterday" = the Greek Kalends. As used above it is a gross insult to
the person addressed.

[34] Damask hill: the names taken by these great _hetairai_ were most
fanciful.

[35] Next to the Ten-o[u] Jinja; not that of Samegabashi. To-day
retired, neat and clean; without the dirty publicity of larger temples.
It is a bit of country in crowded Yotsuya.

[36] A young girl's method of fixing the hair; but Ryuo[u] uses the
term. Gohei are the paper strips used as offering. Usually attached to a
short stick.

[37] At the Gyo[u]ranji of Matsuzakacho[u] in the Mita district of
To[u]kyo[u].

[38] _Sanzugawa_: _Yama_ mo nakereba, _hashi mo nashi_; _shinde no
tabiji hana wa nao nashi_. Sanzugawa, the river crossed by the dead.

[39] A fourth form of torture was suspension--an exaggerated infliction
of "the lobster." These official forms are described by J. Carey Hall in
the transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, vol. XLI., Part V. The
native references are the "Tokugawa Seikei Shiryo[u]," "Keizai Dai
Hiroku," "Ko[u]jiki Ruihi Horitsu-bu." Cf. article on Go[u]mon in the
"Kokushi Dai Jiten." There were other forms. In the examination into the
famous conspiracy of Yui Sho[u]setsu (1651 A.D.) no confession could be
secured from Yoshida Hatsuemon. He was brought out, to find his
thirteen-year-old son Hachitaro[u] undergoing the torture of dropping
water. At the last extremities the boy pleaded for mercy. His father
drily told him to act the _samurai_, and not to imperil the lives of
others. It was different with Matsubayashi Chuya (really the last heir
of the famous Cho[u]sokabe House of Tosa). At sight of his old, white
haired, white faced, jail wearied mother threatened with the fire
torture, he did for her what he would not do for himself. The old woman
willingly would have undergone the torture. Chuya's confession cost the
lives of seventy-five men.

[40] Hifumikwan (To[u]kyo[u]), Meiji 29th year 2nd month 15th day (28th
March, 1896).

[41] _Mairase So[u]ro[u]_: "I take the liberty of...." Brinkley's Dict.
A purely formal expression used in the letters of women writers.

[42] The three holy things--Buddha, his Law, the priesthood.

[43] Another reading of