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. VL SEW. i, i9oo.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 165 his claws on trees or poles whereby he has reascended to the clouds after his fall, the wood thus characterized being valued much for its curing toothache when made into toothpicks (cf. Ydven, 'Zenkwdji Meisho Dzue/ 1848, torn. v. fol. 39 b). The " Bloody Ceilings," confusedly marked, as it were, with impressions in blood of the hands and feet of warriors dying in battle, are shown in the cities of K.y6to and Sakai, as well as in the town of Yamada. Shitomi (I.e., fol. 6 b) observes that they are but a natural product, the grain and vein, peculiarly coloured, of the wood used in the work giving the occa- sion to such a grumous appellation (cf. my letter on the mandrake in Nature, vol. liv. p. 343, 13 August, 1896). Such is a list of the natural objects and formations which very probably drew much curiosity, or even semi-religious awe. from the Japanese, from the early times of their national nascency, on account of a singular resemblance that they bear to feet and foot- impressions of man and animals. Notwith- standing, however, the great majority of their footprint stones, definitely with religious purport, appear to have been created since the introduction of Buddhism in the sixth century A.D. An antiquary asserts that Japan possesses altogether seven (authentic) footprints of the Buddha (Ota, ' Ichiwa Ichigen,' ed. 1884, torn. xii. fol. 27 b), of which one in the cathedral, Yakushiji, is most noted (Aoki, 'Kon-y6 Manroku,' 1763, reprint 1891. p. 76). Besides this, the province of Yamato has one attributed to Amitabha Buddha on Hibari Hill, and another of the Buddhist magician Yen-no-Gy6ja on a cliff near the top of Mount Omine (Mr. K. Takahashi's communication, in lift.). The so-called footprint of Prince Uinayado (573- 621), the Constantine of Japan, is visible on a staff now preserved in the Imperial Museum, T6kv6, a wonderful story being told of its shade indicating by its changes the rise and fall of the Buddhist doctrine (my 'Kwayo Zuihiteu,' 1885, vol. ii. fol. 2a); a track of his stallion is pointed out on a rock in the so-called Horse-Dale in Kawachi (Tera- shima, op. cit., torn. Ixxv.); another of the Emperor Godaigo's horse on Mount Kasagi (Takahashi, ut supra): a footstep of Ami- tabha Buddha at T6ky6 (FAzoku Gwahf, No. 143, p. 6, 1898); another of a mysterious child begotten by the deity of Otniwfc, to a country girl, on a board, and saij^to be always warm (Terashima, op. cit., tom/lxxiii.); on a rock on Hiye Hill a tra*£ of the ii'in which, a tradition says, on*, brought there Mandjus'ri on its back (Hafouri,' Hiye no Yashiro Shint6 Himitsuki,' 1582, reprint 1898, p. 641). In this holy place it was pre- scribed, every time the Temple of Mandjus'ri was rebuilt, to put into the foundation a bit of earth scraped off the ground beneath the footprints of the lion on whose back he had descended on Wu-Tai Hill, China ('Jie Daisdjd no Den,' 1031, reprint 1898, p. 570). KUMAGUSU MlKAKATA. 1, Crescent Place, South Kensington, 8.W. (Tn be continued.) 'DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY': NOTES AND CORRECTIONS. (Continued from 9th S. v. 473.) Vol. LXIII. P. 22 b. "Christmases"? P. 28. John Worlidge's 'Cider' appeared again in 1694 ; the treatise on ' Bees ' was issued with that on 'Cider'; 'Gardening' was reissued in 1688. P. 35 b. Is there the degree B. A., Glasgow 1 P. 46. Anthony Wotton was a friend of Ferrar"s family, Wordsworth, ' Eccl. Biog.,' 1818, v. 81. Pp. 48-9. Edward Wotton, physician, was sent by Henry VIII. to attend Cardinal Wolsey, Wordsworth, 'Eccl. Biog.,' i. 472. Pp. 49-51. Edward Wotton. Owenaddressed to him an epigram, 3rd coll. ii. 48. He was a patron of Florio, translator of Montaigne., Pp. 51-7. Sir H. Wotton. Owen add--"3? to him an epigram, 3rd coll. iii. 36; sfl^0011 , 'Apophthegms,' No. 300 ; his st'J reproved, Tatler, No. 230(1710). ,, ,. ,. P. 62. William Wotton'' .^flections °" Reflections on 'Bentley,'»Engl. Men of Letters,* 1<*2. ..... „ P. 63 a. EverVsohcitor " ism "chancery. P 64 b Aft*'" Brothers" add q.v. (vi. 442). P 65 Arcfdeacon Wrangham was the only child of Jeorge W., of ..»»y«**"2»f eing a " bricklayer is probably a fiction; he was a graduate of B.N.C., Oxon.. and claimed a good descent, see Ivi. 138, where "Thomas" is an error for ' fp 80-94. Christopher Wren's plans of Westminster Hall in Archceologm, ^ vol. 1. ; Barrow wrote Latin verses on him, Worfcs, 1 842 iii 407 p'gib. For "Allenbury" read Atterbwry. Pp. 94-6. (Bishop M. Wren's narrative