JAPANESE. 209 



*' in the province of Dauria, and near the river Amoor, there 

 are a great many milk-white falcons, which are sent in great 

 numbers to China." This writer describes three sorts 

 (differentiated according to plumage, dependent upon age), 

 and details the method of taming them (p. 361). See also 

 Schlegel {pp. at. pp. 60-61, 65-66); and an article on "Birds 

 used for Sport in China," translated by the present writer 

 from the French of M. Pierre A. Pichot, in The Zoologist for 

 December 1885. According to Col. Yule {op. cit. i. 396)> 

 hawking is still common in North China. 



365. TONERINO SINWO. Nipponki. 



ToNERiNO SiNwo [Prince]. The Chronicle of 

 Japan. Written a.d. 720. 30 vols. 



This voluminous work, No. no of Schlegel's Catalogue, 

 contains a history of Japan from 661 B.C. to a.d. 696. 



The author, after stating that the Japanese empire was 

 founded in 660 B.C., asserts that in a.d. 239 Falconry, with 

 other arts, was introduced into Japan from Southern China, 

 and that in a.d. 247 Falcons were sent for the first time from 

 Petsi, in the Corea, to the Court of Japan, where the practice of 

 Falconry was first attempted a.d. 355 (Schlegel, op. cit. p. 66). 

 See also vol. vii. p. 35, and vol. xliv. pp. 4-5, of the following : — 



366. SIMAYOSI ANKO. Wa Kan San Sai 



Dsou-E. 

 SiMAYOsi Anko. Chinese and Japanese Ency- 



CLOPyEDIA. I714. In IO5 Vols. 8vO. 



This is No 106 of Schlegel's Catalogue. Some interesting 

 details relative to Falconry, derived chiefly from the Chinese 

 work, Ou Tsa Tsou (No. 364), are given vol. vii. p. 35, and 

 vol. xliv. pp. 4-5. Mention is made (vol. vii. p. 35) of a clever 

 falconer named Sakourawi Goro, who, in 1206, was summon-^d 

 to the Court of the Emperor Sanetomo, at Yedo, to give instruc- 



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