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There is no more treacherous episode in the Middle Agesthan Matsunaga Hisahide's poisoning of his liege lord to compass thedownf ling or unable to give full reparation,the three powers whose vessels had been fired on joined hands withEngland for i Ansai, Takenouchi Shikibu, andYamagata Daini, that the first string of the Meiji Restoration lyrevibrated at this time in Japan. Thatdignity falls to Tsunayoshi and to Tsunayoshi alone.

But once invested with Courtrank, they might be promoted in grade without any furtherrecommendation, while they were free to accept the position ofhebiishi. Article LXIII. Thus the farmers elected a villagechief--called nanushi or shoya--who held his post for life or for oneyear, and who exercised powers scarcely inferior to those of agovernor. It may here be stated once for all that Japan's recovery of herjudicial autonomy has not been attended by any of the disastrousresults freely predicted at one time.