) ofwhich sold for ten kwan-mon (L15, or $75, approximately). Xavier now took advantage of a Portuguese vessel whichcalled at Yamaguchi en route for Bungo, a province on the easternlittoral of Kyushu. He seized the domains of the Nittafamily in the Kwanto and distributed them among his own followers; hecaused It issaid that the total of the coins thus bestowed amounted to 365,000ryo, a vast sum in that era.
A good many sections of the code dealwith legal procedure and the conduct and duty of magistrates, thegreat objects being to make th But in the greatly inferior hands of Shirakawa this newdivision of Imperial authority and the segregation We cannot wonder that the shogun's ministers hesitatedto take an apparently suicidal step. As for the Buddhist priests who had sacrificed theirhonour to their interests, those that had acted as guides to theinvading army were subseque
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