Give this letter to Kuni, and impress upon him that he realize and lay to heart its contents.
N.B.--I beg you once more to pay attention to Kuni. If you bring him up according to my advice I shall have no reason for anxiety about his future.
[15] The child-name of the brother of Iyémits[)u].
[16] Saburo was the eldest son of Iyéyas[)u].
[18] May be described as a form of the game of checkers.
[19] Masashige (first half of fourteenth century), the type of unswerving loyalty to the throne. It is interesting to note Iyéyas[)u]'s estimate of a hero who died defeated, and whose whole energy had been devoted to preventing the control of the Empire by the shoguns, of whom Iyéyas[)u] is the most complete type.
[20] Takeda, son of Takeda Shingen, prince of Kai, committed suicide at Tenmokuzan. The story of his father's eccentric life is too long to be given here. He was at times an ally, at times an enemy of Iyéyas[)u].
[21] Nobunaga, Iyéyas[)u]'s former leader.
[22] Hideyoshi, his other general and partner.
For the Latin-1 version of this text, [)u] represents a breve over the given vowel. [=a] represents a macron over the given vowel. OE/oe ligatures have been expanded.
Obvious typographical errors were repaired, as listed below. Other apparent inconsistencies or errors have been retained, such as archaic spellings, inconsistent hyphenation and application of accents.
Original pagination maintained as closely as possible, with these exceptions:
- Illustrations moved in between paragraphs.
- Blank pages which were counted in original page count, were deleted.
Page 13: corrected "Orienal" to "Oriental".
Page 133: retained original spelling of "scorcerers".
Page 204: replaced "not" for "no"; in typo: "tone which could no be matched".
End of Project Gutenberg's An Artist's Letters From Japan, by John La Farge