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Nothing, indeed, stands more signally to the credit of theBakufu rulers from the days of Yoritomo and his wife, Masa,downwards, than their constant endeavour to do justice between manand man. But the commander-in-chief, Ukita Hideiye, refused to endorsethis plan. e following provision: In a suit-at-law betweenparent and son judgment should be given for the parent without regardto the pleading of the son. Indeed, very fewbooks were procurable from the Dutch at Deshima.

CHANGE OF OPINION IN KYOTOThe sway exercised by the extremists in Kyoto now received a checkowing to their excessive zeal. His grounds of disaffection were thathe suspected the shogun of a design to deprive him of the twoprovinces of Kii and Such honour was without precedent since the time ofIeyasu. *The Story of Korea, by Longford.