1 This deity is seldom called by his full name, which has been shortened by common usage from Susano-o-no-mikoto.
2 A kichinyado is an inn at which the traveller is charged only the price of the wood used for fuel in cooking his rice.
3 The thick fine straw mats, fitted upon the floor of every Japanese room, are always six feet long by three feet broad. The largest room in the ordinary middle-class house is a room of eight mats. A room of one hundred mats is something worth seeing.