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In Ghostly Japan

resembles the conventional flamelet-design of Buddhist decoration, that I cannot help thinking them originally intended to indicate the traditional luminosity of the footprints. Moreover,

S’ripada showing the Svastikâ
(From the
Bukkyō-Hyakkwa-Zensho)

(From the Shō-Ekō-Hō-Kwan)

there is a text in the book called Hō-Kai-Shidai that lends support to this supposition:—“The sole of the foot of the Buddha is flat,—like the base of a toilet-stand…. Upon it are lines

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