Chapter 1 - 第一篇 死体と二つの扉を
1.3 - 屍光故ゆえなくしては
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"スウェーデンボルグかジョン・ウェスレイ（メソジスト教会の創立者）でもあるのでした"
This is Emanuel Swedenborg in his later years, when he took a mystic turn, and John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. On a side note, is/was Swedenborg so famous with the japanese public so as not to warrant a side note, but Wesley wasn’t ???
"マックレンブルグ魔法"
This probably references Sophie of Mecklenburg-Gürstow, Queen of Denmark; O also found an article that apparently refers to jewellery as magical artifact commissioned by the daughter of Sophie of Mecklenburg-Gürstow… but I don’t have access to the full-text and couldn’t research further.
"そうすれば、その六人の者が、犬のごとく己れの吐きたるものに帰り来る――とでもお考えなのですか"
Refers to St Peter’s 2nd Epistle, 2:22 in the Bible
"しかし、何が算哲と叫ばせたものでしょうな」と法水は再び疑念を繰り返してから、「実は、夫人が断末魔にテレーズと書いたメモが、寝台の下に落ちていたのですよ。ですから、幻覚を起すような生理か、何か精神に異常らしいところでも……。時に、貴女はヴルフェンをお読みになったことがありますか"
Likely references Erich Wullfen - german Wikipedia page only who worked as a criminologist; here’s an english-language article about his work.
"既に洗ってしまったでしょう。ですが、そういう御質問をなさると、ヘルマン（十九世紀の毒物学者）が嗤いますわ"
Unclear. There’s a Hans Rudolph Hermann (ru) who was a chemist, and a Rudolph Kobert who was a toxicologist. Maybe a mix of the two ?
"一つの物云う象徴［＃「物云う象徴」は底本では「物云う象徴」］が作られていった"
Most probably a nod to Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart
"茶立蟲"
Psocids, also known as book lice. Some make a noise when they bang their abdomen against paper
"ヴェルレーヌの詩が……」"
Most probably Paul Verlaine’s poem Ariettes Oubliées V (english version). There is no mention of a chisel, but of the gentle sound of wings, which goes well with the Psocids.
"「ところが、死点と云えるものは、けっして網膜の上や、音響学ばかりにじゃないからね。フリーマンは織目の隙から、特殊な貝殻粉を潜り込ましている」"
Possibly a reference to R.Austin Freeman, a british detective story writer, whose detective, Dr Thorndyke apparently resolves several cases throught the use of dusts, barely visible footprints, etc…
"「いや、それが紀長谷雄卿の故事なのさ。鬼の娘が水になって消えてしまったって」"
This references 紀長谷雄, a japanese poet, scholar an diplomat from the Heian period. And here is the story !
"あの立法者の像なども、明白に迷宮の暗示ではありませんか。あれは、たしかマリエットが、埋葬地にある迷宮の入口で発見したのですからね"
This is Auguste Mariette, one of the fathers of egyptology. While excavating the Serapeum of Saqqara, he did find the famous seated scribe statue. As for the Crocodilopolis Labyrinth, it has no direct link to Mariette. I couldn’t fnd any reference to scribe statues specifically marking the entrance to this or other labyrinths
"僧正ウォーターとアレツオ、弁証派のマキシムス、アラゴニアの聖ラケル……もう四人ほどあったと思います。しかし、それ等は要するに、奇蹟売買人の悪業にすぎないことでしょう"
This references Walter of Mortagne and Maximus the Confessor; I couldn’t find any saint or mystic nalmed Rachel of Aragon, and no specific tradition or myth about a miraculous corpse related to this region. アレツオ could be Donatus of Arezzo who was martyred, though there is no mention of his corpse has having miraculous properties (there is, however, the miracle of a glowing Madonna in Arezzo, but no link to St donatus). Miraculous lights are said to appear over Maximus’s grave.
