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This bold measure failed to obtain approval in Yedo. icipating injury to the country's fortunes and perversion of thenation's moral canons, are implacably opposed to foreign intercourse. Stated thus briefly, the complication suggests merely a quarrel forthe succession, but, regarded more closely, it is seen to deriverancour chiefl ENGRAVING: ARAI HAKUSEKIADJUSTMENT OF THE FINANCESIt has been shown above that the fifth shogun bequeathed to hissuccessor a much embarrassed treasury.

among many thousand had the courage to withhold his consent toa judgment which outraged truth and justice. The first of these three was entrusted to Kasai Motochika; thelast two were placed in the care of Miyoshi Nagateru. Nothing, however,damped their ardour, and five years after their arrival in Kyoto theyhad not only obtain of the Kwanto, withhis headquarters at Kamakura, and with Ashikaga Tadayoshi (brother ofTakauji) for second in command.