¹ There is often also a pernicious alienation, in Japan, between kokugaku and tōyōgaku, (other) Oriental studies.

² I quote from Philippi, 's ‘Songs on the Buddha's foot-prints’, Nihon Bunka Kenkyūjo Kiyō, 2, 1958, 184–145Google Scholar [sic], not from the ‘popular’ work of 1968, unknown to me, cited for castigation by Miller. The above journal seems to be too little known; neither Miller nor Mills seems to have seen this number. Being published by the Kokugakuin, it is strongly biased towards Shinto studies, but it has contributions from such eminent scholars asŌOno Susumu and Takigawa Masajirō, to name only two. In his introduction to his brief edition and translation of the poems, Philippi expresses admiration and just appreciation of their quality, though necessarily unaware of the ‘rediscovery’ of the principles of poetic sequences.