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It was this baron that had attacked thepalace of Nijo when Yoshiteru, the shogun, had to commit suicide It is to be noted that, at thistime, Christian propagandism in Kyushu had not yet begun to bedisfigured by acts of violence. There is an old proverb, Tadaoki replied, that if a round lid beput on a square vessel, those within wi Toba abdicated, after a reign of fifteenyears, on the very day of Sutoku's nomination as heir apparent, and,six year

ers in the evil past should lapse by maturity,or to qualify herself by earnest reforms and industrious developmentsfor their earlier recovery. Yet the Bakufu officials did not hesitate toresort to force. Aphilosophy which produces such effects must be founded on a falsesystem. SECOND ERA OF FOREIGN TRADEJapan's seclusion was maintained unflinchingly.