↑ Guan served the magistrate of Huairen County (李進熙 1973, halaman 56, citing Ikeuchi Hiroshi (池内宏)'s Ji'an's County History)
↑ Guan Yueshan made rubbings of one letter per sheet.
↑ The ink-rubbing artisan ordered by the magistrate to burn off the vegetation encrusting the monument was interviewed byImanishi Ryū [ja] who stated with conviction this happened in 1882. Guan Yuenshan's superior named Zhang 章樾 was still magistrate of Huairen County until January 1882, but Yi Jin-hui conjectured a different governor named Chen 陳士芸 was responsible.
↑ Yi also notes the lack of sturdy large paper and skilled stone-rubbing technicians.
↑ Tracings, i.e., shuanggou ben (双鉤本; "double-contour version") in Chinese and sōkōbon in Japanese ((Hatada 1979, p. 3),(李進熙 1973, pp. 68–9)) The full name of the technique is shuanggou tianmo (双鉤塡墨 "double-tracing and ink-filling")
