Soogakf. A Treatiſe containing the precepts of morals, as taught and practiſed by the Siutoiſts, or Philoſophers of the Japaneſe: It is divided into five parts.
Fontsjo O in ſiſi, that is, in the literal ſenſe, the artifice of the Shadow of the Japaneſe Cherry-Tree. It is a Treatiſe of the art of governing by Itakura Suwono Cami, Governor of Miaco, who in the decline of his life retired from buſineſs, and wrote this Book under a large Cherry-Tree in his Garden, whence alſo he hath borrowed that Title.
Tſure dſure Ioſijdano Kenko, that is, the Solitudes of Ioſijdanokenko, who was once a Soldier in the Emperor’s ſervice, but retired afterwards into a Convent, and turned Monk. It is a Collection of moral Sentences, very conducive to regulate the behaviour of mankind in various ſcenes of life.
Faku nin Isju, that is, the verſes of an hundred men. It is a Book of Poetry, compoſed by an hundred perſons of the Court of the Eccleſiaſtical Hereditary Emperor, every one of whom furniſhed his quota.
Kojogun. A Treatiſe of the Government of Japan.
* Nipponki. An account of the moſt remarkable things to be met with in the Empire of Japan.
* Sitzi Joſſu. A Geographical deſcription of the Empire of Japan, tranſlated in Chap. V. of the firſt Book of the Hiſtory of Japan.
* Isje mono Gattari. A diſcourſe of the affairs of Isje, by Narifide, a Perſon of the Eccleſiaſtical Hereditary Emperor his Court.
* A deſcription of the court of the Dairi, or Eccleſiaſtical Hereditary Emperor of Japan, toegether with one hundred different dreſſes of the Perſons compoſing that Court.
* Jedo Kagami. A deſcription of the Court of the Secular Monarch at Jedo, with a liſt of all of the Officers, and their Revenues.
Sikki. A Chineſe Chronicle, containing a deſcription of the moſt remarkable occurrencies in the Empire of China.
Mannengojomi, that is, an almanack for ten thouſand years, wherein it hath been calculated, what days are fortunate or unfortunate, according to the influence of the Cœleſtial Signs.
* Dſiookivi. An Almanack. They are commonly eight Inches in heighth, and five feet in length.
* Oſasjo.