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omary to appoint one kebiishiin each of its districts, whereas elsewhere the establishment was oneto each province. The issue might have been foretold had not thepirate chief's lieutenant gone over to the Imperial forces. It is related of a vassal of Okitsugu thathe was found one day with three high officials of the shogun's courtbusily engaged in applying a moxa to his foot. He further postedIshida Katsushige at Sawa-yama (now called Hikone) in the province ofOmi, to cover the principal route

Their conception oflearning on the part of the sovereign was limited to the compositionof Japanese verselets. He had sent an envoy toEurope who, after seven years abroad, returned on the eve of the great martyrdom, and made a report thoroughly unfavourable toChristianity. Theregent who suffered by this arbitrary procedure was FujiwaraMotofusa, the same noble whom, a few years later, Kiyomori caused to On the 25th, Konishi's troops carried thecastle of Fusan by storm, after a brave resistance by the garrison,and, on the 27th,