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windows open alternately to the South and the East from every second story. Just opposite these windows on the inner wall are set yellow glazed tiles moulded with he relief figure of an erect Bodhisattva, by whose side is a dated inscription. Occasionally these porcelain tiles are varied with iron ones, also dated, on which is a relief casting of a Buddhist figure in archaic or archaistic style. Since the dates of both the procelain and iron plaques are either from the Wan Li (1573 - 1620) period of the Ming dynasty or the Ch-ien Lung (1735 - 1795) of the Ch'ing, the archaic style of the iron reliefs must be an anachronism. I account for it by the fact that these iron plates seem to have been cast from earlier ones of the T'ang or Sung period, and the date of the casting added at the time. This is borne out by evidence that the figures seem to have been worn and battered in the originals, though the iron casts have never suffered from exposure. As records of earlier work these figures may be found to have some value. On the inside wall near the lowest window is a remarkable porcelain tile glazed in pure black representing the pot-bellied god of luck and inscribed with a year name of the Wan Li period of Ming.

I give here the substance of my notes the more fully, because this pagoda, and that called Pai T'a Ssu which follows, are not important enough to form the subject of appendices such as I am preparing on the pagodas of a much earlier date that I visited in Manchuria.

WHITE PAGODA
The "White pagoda" (Pai T'a Ssu) (1), just outside the South Western gate of Kaifeng, was formerly of five

(1) Chavannes  P1, CCCCXIIII, Nos. 920, 921.
P1, CCCCXV No. 925.