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Three years had now passed since the wearing of swords had beendeclared optional and since a scheme for the voluntary commutation ofthe samurai's pensions had been elaborated. Nor does anothernarrative, with regard to the motives which induced Kiyomori's widowto drown the young Emperor. Mybrother Yoshitomo has eyes to see an opportunity. The feudatories did not confine themselves toassertions of independence; they also followed the example of theBakufu by remitting so

Their introduction wasquickly followed by that of a kind of match which took the form of athin piece of wood tipped with sulphur. There were 125 of them in Japan at that time, and of these onlyeleven left Nagasaki by sea in October, 1 But the Spaniards in Manila had long looked with somewhatjealous eyes on this Jesuit reservation, and when ne tes Government, theviews of competent men have been taken and have been carefullyconsidered by the shogun.