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95. I.e., Imbe-no-Hironari’s day.
96. I.e., the Government Treasury.
97. The family to the East of the Capital (i.e., in Yamato Province) is descended from Achi-no-Omi, ancestor of the Aya (or Kan) Family of Atae rank, whilst the family in the West of the Capital is descended from the learned Wani of Kudara.
98. I.e., the descendants of Achi-no-Omi.
99. The name of a place in Takechi Kori, Yamato Province.
100. Some commentators surmise that “Byakuchi” might have been mistaken for “Byakuho,” while others say that “Byakuho” is correct, as it stands, because it is mentioned in the Daishokukan Kamatari Den or Biography of Fujiwara-no-Kamatari, where the author says that the first year of Byakuho falls in the fifth year of the Emperor Kotoku’s reign. Vide the Gunsho Ruiju or Collection of Miscellaneous Works (Japanese edition, Vol. LXIV). Dr. H. Hoshino (maybe some others) advance the opinion that the expression Byakuho or White Phœnix is simply the idealized expression of Byakuchi or White Pheasant, so that, possibly “Byakuho” and Byakuchi” are identical. Further Vide W. G. Aston, E.T.N., Vol. I, p. 373.
101. Toyosaki-no-Miya, the Emperor Kotoku’s Palace, is identified by some historians with the present Honjo, or Toyosaki Village, in Nishinari Kori, Settsu Province, others opine that Toyosaki was on the site where Osaka Castle now stands.
102. Nagara is in Settsu Province.
103. Naniwa in Settsu Province, the present Osaka.
104. Sakashi, according to the Kacho or Lineage Book of
