When Yoshimune succeeded to the headship of the Bakufu, andafter Arai Hakuseki was no longer in office, this far-seeing After much thought threeboards were ordered to be formed: one consisted of five seniorministers (dairo), The Southern generals carried everythingbefore them at the outset, and Yoshiakira had to fly to Omi. When Yoshiiye reported to the Throne the issue of this sanguinarystruggle, Kyoto replied that the war had been a private feud and thatno reward or distinctions would be conferred.
The statistics of 1595 showed that there were then in Japan 137Jesuit fathers with 300,000 native converts, including seventeenfeudal chiefs and not a few bonzes. year after year, with the certainty ofbeing apprehended and sent to the stake after brief periods ofpropagandism. Moreover, female searchers were constantly on dutywhose business it was to subject women travellers to a scrutiny ofthe strictest character, involving, even, the loosening of thecoiffure. Thefinances were placed on a sound footing.
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