NOTES
Lafcadio Hearn, the author of this selection, took a four days' journey
in a jinrikisha to the remote country district which he describes. He is
almost the only foreigner who has ever entered the village.
=Bon-odori=:--The dance in honor of the dead.
=Hiroshige=:--A Japanese landscape painter of an early date.
=kuruma=:--A jinrikisha; a two-wheeled cart drawn by a man.
=hibachi=:--(hi bae' chi) A brazier.
=Bonku=:--The Festival of the Dead.
=The memory of tropical dances=:--Lafcadio Hearn had previously spent
some years in the West Indies.
=Akira=:--The name of the guide who has drawn the kuruma in which the
foreigner has come to the village. (See page 18 of _Glimpses of
Unfamiliar Japan_.)
=yukata=:--Pronounced _yu kae' ta._
=geta=:--Pronounced _g[=e][=e]' ta_, not _j[=e][=e]' ta;_ high noisy
wooden clogs. (See page 10 of _Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan_.)
=Buddhist=:--One who believes in the doctrines of Gautama Siddartha, a
religious teacher of the sixth century before Christ.
=Buddha=:--A statue representing the Buddha Siddartha in a very calm
position, usually sitting cross-legged.
=Bodhisattvas=:--Pronounced _b[=o] di saeht' vas;_ gods who have almost
attained the perfection of Buddha (Gautama Siddartha).
=Jizo=:--A Japanese God. See page 297.
=Etruscan=:--Relating to Etruria, a division of ancient Italy. Etruscan
vases have graceful figures upon them.
=soporous=:--Drowsy; sleep-producing.
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