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 are remembered in the street nomenclature of Yedo. Such a fact is significant, when we remember that the cities of Europe and America in their street names, give us, in many instances, excellent catalogues of their national heroes, statesmen, and scholars. In Yedo, the name of the warrior-emperor Hachiman is borne by several streets, usually by those which pass in front of, or issue from the shrines dedicated to Hachiman, who is also the god of war. Various individuals have had their own names transferred to streets, or have named them themselves, but these persons were mostly men of no renown, or at least of merely local fame; good, honest or wealthy nobodies, of whom no history speaks, and who were unknown except to their own friends and neighbours, and perhaps not heard of beyond the smoke of their own dwellings. Several famous wrestlers have been honoured by having streets called after them, likewise several priests and nuns. A fencing-master, who appears as the central hero in one true narrative, and in a small host of romances, is celebrated among the people for having followed through many years and provinces the murderer of his father, whom he at last killed. He points the moral and adorns several of the many tales of Japanese revenge, which form the literary pabulum of the little children of Japan. The street which is named after him is Kanda Miyamoto.

While speaking of persons, it may be mentioned that near Niphon Bashi, is the street formerly called Anjin cho, after Will Adams, of whom we have read before, and whose sepulchre, thanks to the zeal of a recent discoverer, is known to be with us to this day. Near by Anjin cho, though we cannot vouch for the truth of the statement, was another street, called Yayosugashi; which, as I have been informed by several natives, is the Japanese-Dutch for the name of a Hollander employed in the service of the Shogun at the same time with Adams.

Knowing the populous character of the Pantheon of Japan, we might expect to find many streets called after the popular deities. Only a comparatively small number,