"Eleventh day, third month--Rat, Elder Brother, Fire--Sixth year
of Horeki [A. D. 1756].'... This would seem to be the grave of
some innkeeper of Nedzu, named Kichibei. Let us see what is on
the other monument."

With a fresh sheet of paper he presently brought out the text of
a kaimyo, and read,--

"En-myo-In, Ho-yo-I-tei-ken-shi, Ho-ni':--'Nun-of-the-Law,
Illustrious, Pure-of-heart-and-will, Famed-in-the-Law,--
inhabiting the Mansion-of-the-Preaching-of-Wonder.'.... The grave
of some Buddhist nun."

"What utter humbug!" I exclaimed. "That woman was only making fun
of us."

"Now," my friend protested, "you are unjust to the, woman! You
came here because you wanted a sensation; and she tried her very
best to please you. You did not suppose that ghost-story was
true, did you?"


Footprints of the Buddha


I

I was recently surprised to find, in Anderson's catalogue of
Japanese and Chinese paintings in the British Museum, this
remarkable statement:--"It is to be noted that in Japan the