Note 30 — PART THE FIRST.
Reading edition
Du Halde, Vol. II. p. 300. Kæmpfer observes, in his History of Japan, that the trade between these nations has continued from remotest antiquity; formerly the Chinese had a much more general intercourse with the Japanese than they have at present; the affinity in the religion, customs, books, learned languages, arts and sciences of the Chinese with the latter, procured them a free toleration in Japan. History of Japan, Vol. I. p. 374.