ict wasissued forbidding any foreigners to travel in the empire lestPortuguese with passports bearing Dutch names might enter. Againstsuch dangers Japan would have been justified in adopting any measureof self-protection. During these eight months of warfare, the Government putsixty-six thousand men into the field, and the casualties on bothsides totalled thirty-five thousand, or thirty-three per cent, of thewhole. To this just demand theregent, Takatoki, refused to accede.
family, one of 8 Generals of Kwanto ; origin of family--Hidenobu (1581-1602), grandson of Nobunaga--Katsunaga (1568-82), death--Nobuhide (d. It was at this time that there arrived in Yoritomo's camp a youth oftwenty-one with about a score of followers. ess than541 counterfeiters were crucified within the districts under thedirect control of the Bakufu. From that place, too, they began to send yearly reportsknown as the Annual Letters to their generals in Rome, and theseLetters give an interesting insight into the conditions then existingin Japan.
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