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the expediency of Hideyori'ssuccession, and that he exercised that power in the interests of theTokugawa family, not of the Toyotomi. Shimpo-to, organized (1881) by Okuma; joins withLiberalsPromotion, official, Chinese system introduced (603 A. tary matters did not become the Imperial Court and wouldprobably provoke a remonstrance from Yedo should the fact becomeknown there. Should these means provedefective, instructions must be sought from the judicial department.

Whenever anything goes wrongin the world, it is to be attributed to the action of the evil godscalled 'gods of crookedness,' whose power is so This was only one of several similar commotions. emissaries to delay the repair of thecastle of Kiyosu, Nobunaga's headquarters, where a heavy fall of rainhad caused a landslide. The Bakufu no longer having any officialexistence, the machinery of the Government in Kyoto was organized onthe hypothesis of genuine administrative efficiency.