134 It is an evidence of the feeling which still exists towards the Ashikaga shōguns that in 1863 these figures were taken from the Tō-ji-in and beheaded and the heads pilloried in the dry bed of the Kamogawa, at the spot where it is customary to expose the heads of the worst criminals. Several of the men who were guilty of this outrage were captured and were put into the hands of various daimyōs by whom they were kept as prisoners.—Satow and Hawes’ _Handbook_, p. 357. 135 See the full account of tea ceremonies in Chamberlain’s _Things Japanese_, 1892, p. 404. 136 The official list of emperors will be found in Appendix I. The names of the northern which are not included in this list are as follows: DATE OF ACCESSION. Kōmiō, 1996 years from Jimmu, 1336 A.D. Shukō, 2009 years from Jimmu, 1349 A.D. Go-Kōgen, 2012 years from Jimmu, 1352 A.D. Go-Enyū, 2032 years from Jimmu, 1372 A.D. Go-Komatsu, 2043 years from Jimmu, 1383 A.D. 137 See _Asiatic Society Transactions_, vol. xiii., p. 139. 138 It is said that in this disastrous time the poverty of the country was so great that when, in A.D. 1500, Go-Tsuchimikado died at his palace in Kyōto, the corpse was kept for forty days because the means for the usual funeral expenses could not be had. M. von Brandt as quoted in Rein’s _Japan_, p. 261. 139 Mr. W. A. Woolley, in a paper read before the Asiatic Society of Japan, gives an account derived from Japanese sources as follows: “Amongst those who landed on this occasion was one of the _Literati_ of China, who acted as interpreter between the foreigners and the chief of the island Hyōbu-no-jō Tokitada. [Since both the Chinese and Japanese used the same ideographic characters, they could understand each other’s writing but not speech.] In reply to questions the interpreter is represented as having described his friends the foreigners as being ignorant of etiquette and characters, of the use of wine cups and chop sticks, and as being, in fact, little better than the beasts of the field. The chief of the foreigners taught Tokitada the use of firearms, and upon leaving presented him with three guns and ammunition, which were forwarded to Shimazu Yoshihisa, and through him to the shōgun.”—_Asiatic Society Transactions_, vol. ix., p. 128. 140 See _Adventures of Mendez Pinto_, done into English by Henry Cogan, London, 1891, pp. 259 etc. 141 Hildreth’s _Japan_, etc., 1855, p. 27, note. _ 142 Adventures of Mendez Pinto_, p. 281. 143 This is the name by which Pinto calls this city (see _Adventures of Mendez Pinto_, London, 1891, p. 265); the real name, however, at this time was Fumai, and is now Ōita.