242 T. R. H. McClatchie, “The Castle of Yedo,” _Asiatic Society Transactions_, vol. vi., part 1, p. 131. 243 As illustrative of Buddhism at its greatest splendor we give here the figures of the great bronze image of Buddha at Kamakura, and of the great bell at the temple of Daibutsu in Kyōto. [Transcriber’s Note: This bell is shown as the Frontispiece to the book.] The former was erected about A.D. 1252 after plans initiated by Yoritomo before his death. The statue in its sitting posture is nearly fifty feet in height. It is constructed of separate plates of bronze brazed together. Formerly it was enclosed in a temple, but this was twice destroyed by tidal waves, and since its last destruction in 1494 it has not been rebuilt. The bell given in the illustration is that at the temple of Daibutsu, the inscription on which is said to have offended Ieyasu. It is nearly fourteen feet in height and nine feet in diameter. Its weight is more than sixty-three tons.—See Satow and Hawes’ _Handbook_, p. 368. 244 In the account given by Don Rodrigo de Vivero, the late governor of Manila, of a visit made in 1608 by him in behalf of Spanish trade, Yedo is described as a city of seven hundred thousand inhabitants, and Sumpu, which he calls Suruga, where the emperor (as he denominates Ieyasu) lived, is estimated to contain from five to six hundred thousand inhabitants. He was so pleased with the country through which he travelled that he declares, “if he could have prevailed upon himself to renounce his God and his king he should have preferred that country to his own.”—See Hildreth’s _Japan_, etc., pp. 145, 147. 245 These letters were written from Japan between 1611 and 1617. They were printed in part in Purchas’ _Pilgrimes_, and are included in the publications of the Hackluyt Society. From the latter source they were printed in pamphlet form by the _Japan Gazette_ at Yokohama, 1879. It is from this last source these references are taken. 246 First letter of Adams in pamphlet edition. Yokohama, 1878, p. 8. 247 This name, Nova Spania or New Spain, was first given to the peninsula of Yucatan, and was afterward extended to the territory of Mexico conquered by Cortez. Finally it was given to all the Spanish provinces extending on the Pacific coast from Panama to Van Couver’s island. Acapulco was the principal harbor on the Pacific coast.—See Prescott’s _Conquest of Mexico_. 248 Captain Cocks in his “Diary,” contained in Purchas’ _Pilgrimes_, part 1, book iv., gives an account of a visit he made to Yedo in 1616, on the business of the English trade, at which time he visited Adams’ seat, which he calls “Phebe,” doubtless mistaking the sound of the real name “Meni.”—See Chamberlain’s _Things Japanese_, 1892, p. 15.