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Order of Succession Name Date 77th Sovereign Go-Shirakawa 1156-1158 78th Previously the only sources of information about foreign affairs hadbeen the masters of the Dutch ships, the Dutch merchants, and theJapanese interpreters at Nagasaki. He added,in reply to further questions, that 'the Roman priesthood had beenexpelled from many parts of Germany, from S Some Japanese historians describe this event as an accessof weariness on the shogun's part towards the duties ofadministration.

THE 109TH SOVEREIGN, THE EMPRESS MYOSHO (A. hich requestbeing rejected, he left the capital without paying final respects tothe Throne, an omission astutely calculated to attract partisans. 14Absolute accuracy is not claimed for these figures, but they arecertainly close approximations. But Yoshimune had his own programme.