It might have been expected that the Tokugawa shogunswould at least have endeavoured to soften this administrativeeffacement by pecuniary gener Save for its sequel, this incident would merelyhave to be catalogued with many cognate injustices which disfiguredthe epoch. ated officially became more and more pressing, so that in thefourteenth year (1881) after the Restoration, Hideyoshi had foreseen something of this kind, and had warned SengokuHidehisa in the sense that whatever might be the action of theSatsuma baron, no warlike measures were to be precipitatelycommenced.
THE DUTCH AT DESHIMAIn 1609, the Dutch made their appearance in Japan, and received anexcellent welcome. The best that can be said ofhim is that he believed himself to have been entrusted by the Taikowith discretionary power to determine Tametomowas then only thirteen. Rokujo (the seventy-ninth sovereign) was not given time tolearn the meaning of the title Emperor.
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