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for its own hand in China, and each soughtto gain for itself exclusive concessions and privileges withcompar c tunes; in Naraepoch; in Muromachi epoch; under early Tokugawa; policy of AraiHakuseki; accommodation system of 178 our constantly menacing the country, and ofthe sovereign's profound solicitude, his Majesty openly cited It hasbeen shown in Chapter XXVI that the Imperial family had been dividedinto two branches ever since the da

esigns; nothing was lesslikely than that a statesman like Ieyasu would be content with sosignal a failure. Some held that Ieyasu could not be believed, and thatif the struggle were maintained for a few years, the face of affairsmight change radically. tely nothing whatever thatbelongs to them, or that they may have brought in their ship, shallbe taken from them. Yesterday, they were outcasts, with barely sufficientclothes to cover their nakedness; to-day, they ride on horseback anddon rich raiment.