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It may here be stated once for all that Japan's recovery of herjudicial autonomy has not been attended by any of the disastrousresults freely predicted at one time. Yoshitomo and Kiyomori took fulladvantage of this strategical error. It was a mere formality. We find himmaking frequent donations of 5000 kwamme of silver to the citizens ofKyoto and Yedo; constructing the inner cast

The bitterness of this language was intensified by a comment made tothe Japanese envoys when handing them the above despatch. In the presence of a practicallyacknowledged conviction that no territorial baron of that era mightventure to engage in an enterpris Reaching Kyoto byforced marches from Yamato, he laid siege to Tadayoshi's mansion, andpresently Tadayoshi had to save him He himself adopted the policy of extending the utmost considerationto religion, whether Shinto or Buddhism, and to its devotees andtheir possessions.