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old Japan, andanother instance, also, of the sway exercised over the sovereign byhis Fujiwara ministers. This plan of distributing their domains, so that the daimyo should bemutually repressive, was followed with still greater care by Ieyasuwhen he, in turn, became supreme. a plateau withthree sides descending one hundred feet perpendicularly to the seaand with a swamp on the fourth side. It is said that of all the inhabitants, one only, a Buddhistpriest, escaped to tell the story.

This baron appears to have been sincere in his adoption of theforeign religion. The question alluded to at the close of the above, namely, thequestion of finance, was a paramount difficulty for the Bakufu. By that timeHidehira had died, in his ninety-first year, but he had committed tohis son, Yasuhira, the duty of guarding Yoshitsune. ial specie reserve was gradually accumulated, and, by 1885,the volume of fiduciary notes having been reduced to 119 millions,w