^308:6 According to the Secret Rules of the Shingon ritual, the Holy Water, which is used both for baptismal purposes and also for lustrations, is not absolutely pure. It is mixed with Five Treasures (I do not know what they are), Five Cereals, Five Drugs, and Five Species of Incense. When mixed, the water is placed in five jars or vessels on the altar, and used for lustrations.

^309:1 The practice of Zen, or meditation, is still in constant use, and it is always more popular in times of stress and anxiety.

^309:2 The Seven gods of luck are to be seen constantly as charms on the doorposts of Buddhist houses. So are many of the Shinto deities.

^309:3 I have never yet come across the Dairiki (the Five Powerful Ones) in actual use. Their names are Kongoku, Ryuoku, Muiboku, Raidenku, Muryorikiku. They are probably Chinese, and may have come into Japan through the Kegon sect, which, though based on the Avatamsaka Scriptures, was actually organized in China. There is a fable about the demons having once invaded a certain country (Midaikoku), and having been driven out thence by the Dairiki invoked by means of amulets and charms. There are so many thousands of different amulets in use in Japan that it would be impossible to say that the Dairiki have now gone out of fashion.

^310:1 Lit. "Looking through a hollow reed."

^310:2 Ten ka, "under Heaven."

^310:3 I.e. Suvarnaprabhasa sutra, "the Sutra of the Golden Light" (see Nanjo's "Cat. Trip."). It is a late Sutra, certainly much posterior to S'akyamuni's time. But it was much read in Japan in the early Buddhist centuries.

^311:1 The speaker is one of the Four Guardian Kings whom Buddhism has adopted from the Hindus. They stand "at the four corners of the earth."

^311:2 I am quite uncertain of the translation.

^312:1 Gedo, "outside of the way." It is a common word for all non-Buddhist religions--Confucianism, Manichaeism, Christianity.

^312:2 I.e. Shotoku Taishi.

^313:1 If this translation is the right one, I believe it refers to sects, such as the Kegon, who accepted as genuine the collection of Sutras said to have been made independently by S'ariputra and Maudgalyayana. The scene of all these Sutras is laid on the Vulture's Peak near Benares. I have not been able to identify Kakuroku; but there have always been sects that have laid much stress on the possession of personal relics of S'akyamuni.

^314:1 Cf. St. Luke xii. 5.