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eating flesh and going near women [compare the
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ing in happiness and gain he is rewarded with treasure ; tmt in case they meet with sickness or damage he is slain by the infuriated companions, for lie must have infringed the tabu."
According to the ' Annals of Japan,' lib. vii. sub 110 A.D., when Prince Yamato- dake had his passage to Kadzusa suddenly endangered by a hurricane, one of his con- cubines drowned herself to appease the wrath of the sea-god. The ' Second Annals,' 797, lib. xxiv. records under October, 763, that a sea-captain was then put in gaol, because in the recent voyage back from Liau-tung under his conduct, he had caused four persons two women and a babe, all of foreign extraction, and an eccentric religious to be thrown overboard, suspecting them to have been the main cause of a terrible meteoric perturbation. It mentions also that in February, 717, the Japanese envoy, before journeying to China, cere- moniously propitiated the native deities (lib. vii.) ; and that in April, 751, the em- peror sent offerings specifically to the Ise Temple and other Shinto sanctuaries, with prayers for the safe arrival of the embassy shortly to be dispatched to China (lib. xviii.). In March, 758, two ships for conveying envoys to China one named Harima after a province, and the other Hayatori, or Swift Bird were raised to the junior rank of the lower fifth order, as if they were gods or men (id., lib. xx.) ; in August, 763, the Sado (also called after a province), a govern- ment transport, was awarded the same honour and a brocaded cap, an ex voto promised on the occasion of her meeting a tempest on the homeward route from Corea (lib. xxiv.). For many other examples of the heartfelt hardships and excessive dread of navigation in those ages, see Dickins, op. cit., p. 219, &c. ; Kume, op. cit., passim ; Ikeda, ' Heianchoshi,' 1907, pp. 133-35, 268.
(8) The Nipponmaru, constructed by order of Hideyoshi, 1591, is said to be the first instance of a ship named maru (Haga and Shimoda, ' Nihon Katei Hyakka Jii,' 1906, p. 1197). This statement, taken to- gether with the preceding paragraph, would impel us to infer the application of the suffix to vessels that had never experienced such vicissitudes as Saito speaks of : in short, from the outset of this usage, it was a term both endearing and honorific.
(9) During the years 1658-60 fashion made the samurais style their galleys for summer excursions on the river Sumida
Kawaichimaru (" Unique in the River "),.
Oozekimaru (" Great Champion "), &c..
About twenty years later they were for-
bidden, chiefly because they frequently
furnished an asylum to outlaws (Saito,.
' Buko Nempyo,' 1849, torn, i., fol. 17a, &c.)-
In closing this lengthy reply I would ask
the reader not to conclude from the above
notes that the Japanese never viewed vessels
as of the feminine gender. That, in fact,
they sometimes associated female character
with ships is attested by their glossarium
roticum, which comprises such nouns as
Hikifune (" Drawing-Boat "), Shinzo (" New-
Vessel "), &c., applied to certain varieties
of fair Corinthians (see Furai, ' Rokuroktx
Bushu,' 18th cent., sub ' Life of Ochiyo ').
KtJMAGTJSU MlNAKATA. Tanabe, Kii, Japan.
SIB GEORGE MONOUX (10 S. viii. 10, 90).
He apparently was not son (as stated ante,.
p. 90), but great-grandson, of "John
Monoux, of Stanford, co. Worcester, gent.,""
being only son of " Richard Monoux, of
London, Salter " as stated in the first of the-
three pedigrees referred to, all of which
however, differ widely from each other. This-
affiliation agrees with the statement in
Stow's ' London ' that he was " born in
London," and is confirmed (if, indeed, it is
not proved) by the ultimate remainder of
his estates being to the heirs male of "Richard
Monoux, of Berkhampstead, Herts, Salter."
In the above-quoted pedigree his cousin
Thomas (only son of his uncle John) has-
three children, viz. (1) George, who continues-
the line ; (2) William, who died s.p. ; and
(3) Anne, who married Thomas Carpenter.
This agrees with the Lord Mayor's will of
1541, wherein he devises his estate to William
Monoux, then aged eight years, second son
of Thomas Monoux, late of Walthamstow,.
with remainder to Anne, also a minor, sister
of the said William. He himself died
9 Feb., 1543/4, certainly without any
surviving issue, though he appears to have
had a son George, who had a son William,,
both of whom died s.p. in his lifetime. Two
married daughters are frequently attributed
to him, as well as two grandsons " John
Denney, of How in Norfolk," and " George
Dacres, of Hartford." As to one of these
daughters (whose name is not given), said
to have married " William Woodall, of
Essex," she may possibly have existed at
some date before 1541 ; but as to the other,,
called Elizabeth, said to have married firstly
Denny, and secondly Dacres, and to be ther
