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Majesty's constant formula ofworship being a supplication that his life might be accepted as asubstitute for the safety of his country. But in the middle period of the Tokugawa Bakufu--the Genroku period,as it is commonly called--the tradesman became a comparativelyconspicuous figure. Masakoto was seized and sentenced to commitsuicide, but the justice of his attempt being recognized, theinfluence of Okitsugu and his son began to decline. he suite of this envoy to be limited to two hundred, and any shipcarrying arms to be regarded as a pirate.

This incident is remarkable as indicating the first potentappearance of a doctrine to the prevalence of which the fall of theTokugawa Bakufu was ultimately referable. My onlyregret is that I cannot live to see the annihilation of the Taira. He had taken forconsort the daughter of Fujiwara Yorimichi. In the western provinces of the main island, in Shikoku, andin Kyushu, scions of the clan had served