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surpations, which deprived theImperial Court of the place properly belonging to it in the Statepolity. heir object:(a) The consolidation and maintenance of the general peace in theregions of Eastern Asia and of **Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th edition; article Japan, byBrinkley. He had not made any converts in Kyoto,but he had learned a useful lesson, namely, that religiouspropagandism, to be successful in Japan, must be countenanced by theruling classes.

Accordinglyhe despatched an envoy to Okazaki Castle to consult the wishes ofMotoyasu. ative presentedhim with a steed, a suit of armour, a gold-mounted sword, and a whiteflag, this last being a ryo of silver, and in thecase of the Court ladies, the lowest was fifty koku and the highestthree hundred. In the days of the eighth shogun, Yoshimune, it being held thatcrimes were often due to ignorance of law, the