Bakemono Yashiki

Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), by

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Title: Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House) Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 (of 2)
Author: James S. De Benneville
Release Date: November 28, 2006 [EBook #19945]
Language: English
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+------------------------------------------------------------+ | TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES | | | | Accents and diacritical marks have generally been | | standardised. Where there is a single instance of a word | | with an accent, and one without, no change has been made | | to the original (e.g. Shigenari/Shig��nari, Uesugi/U��sugi). | | | | The letter o with a macron is represented as o[u]. | | The letter u with a macron is represented as u[u]. | | The letter e with a macron is represented as e[e]. | | | | Kanji and hiragana characters in the original book are | | shown enclosed in square brackets: for example, [sara]. | | | | The italicisation of Japanese words has been standardised. | | | | Hyphenation and capitalisation has been standardised. | | | | Punctuation and obvious printer's errors have been | | corrected. For a complete list, please see the bottom | | of this document. | | | +------------------------------------------------------------+
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[Illustration: EDO WAN (TOKYO BAY)]

LEGEND.
The outline of the map is that found in Volume I. of the Edo Sunago, published Keio 2nd year (1866). The detail of district maps found in the book is worked in, together with that from the sectional map of Edo published Ansei 4th year (1857), and from the Go Edo Zusetsu Shu[u]ran published Kaei 6th year (1853). The map therefore shows in rough outline the state of the city just before the removal of the capital from Kyo[u]to; the distribution of the castes.
The Pre-Tokugawa villages (Eiroku: 1558-1569) indicated on the map found in the "Shu[u]ran" are:--
North and South Shinagawa: Meguro-Motomura: Gin-Mitamura: Mitamura: O[u]nemura: Upper and Lower Shibuya: Harajuku-mura: Kokubunji: Azabu: Kawaza Ichi: O[u]zawa-mura: Imai-mura: Sendagaya: Yamanaka-mura: Ichigaya: Ushigome: Kobiko-mura: Upper and Lower Hirakawa-mura: Ochiya: Sekihon: Ikebukuroya: Tomizaka-mura: Ishibukero-mura: Tanibaragaike: Neruma-mura: Okurikyo[u]: Nakarai-mura: Koishikawa: Zoshigayatsu: O[u]ji: Shimura: Takinogawa: Kinsoboku-mura: Harajuku-mura (II.): Komegome-mura: Taninaka-mura: Shimbori-mura: Mikawajima-mura: Ashigahara-mura: Haratsuka: Ishihama-mura: Senju[u]-mura: Suda-mura: Sumidagawa: Yanagijima: Jujo[u]-mura: Itabashi: Sugamo-mura: Arakawa (river): Kandagawa pool (ike): Kanda-mura: Shibasaki-mura: Shin-Horima-mura: Yushima-mura: Shitaya-mura: Torigoe-mura: Shirosawa-mura: Asakusa-mura: Harai-mura: Some-Ushigome: Ishiwara: Kinoshitagawa: Ubagaike (pool): Negishi-mura: Kinsoki-mura: Kameido-mura (near Ueno): Shinobazu-ike (pool).
From South to North circling by the West. Shinagawa: Mita-mura: Takanawa: Near Imai-mura is a Myo[u]jin shrine, close by the mouth of the present Akabane river.
Ikura: Hibiya: Tsukiji: Tsukuda: Tame-ike (pool): Tsukuda Myo[u]jin: Ota's castle: Sanke-in: Hirakawa-mura: Sakurada-mura: Honju[u]-mura: O[u]tamage-ike: Kametaka-mura. To the East.
77 villages, total.
Pronounce as in Italian, giving vowels full value: ch- as in "church."
[NIROKUDO[U] ISSUES]
TALES OF THE TOKUGAWA II
BAK��MONO YASHIKI
(THE HAUNTED HOUSE)

RETOLD FROM THE JAPANESE ORIGINALS
BY
JAMES S. DE BENNEVILLE
"Woman's greatest need, The base of all governance, Is governance; Seldom found, And rarely applied."--Seishin
YOKOHAMA
1921

PREFACE
In 1590 A.D. the Ho[u]jo[u] were overthrown at Odawara by the Taiko[u] Hid��yoshi, and the provinces once under their sway were intrusted to his second in command, Tokugawa Iyeyasu. This latter, on removing to the castle of Chiyoda near Edo, at first paid main attention to strengthening his position in the military sense. From his fief in To[u]to[u]mi and Suruga he had brought with him a band of noted captains, devoted to his service through years of hardest warfare. He placed them around his castle ward, from East to South in a great sweeping arc of detached fortresses, extending from Shimo[u]sa province to that of Sagami. Koga was the chief stronghold on the North, against what was left of the U��sugi power. The most devoted of his captains, Honda Tadakatsu, was established at Kawago��. Odawara, under an O[u]kubo, as always, blocked the way from the Hakon�� and Ashigara passes. In the hands of Iyeyasu and his captains, the formidable garrison here established was not likely to offer opportunity of a second "Odawara conference," during which dalliance with compromise and surrender would bring sudden attack and disaster. At this period there is no sign that in his personal service Prince Iyeyasu made changes from the system common to the great military Houses of the time. The castle ward and attendance always were divided up among the immediate vassals of the lord. The basis was strictly military, not domestic. Even the beautiful kami-shimo (X), or butterfly hempen cloth garb of ceremonial attendance was an obvious reminder of the armour worn in the field.
Great statesman and