s wife, called upon his vassals to choose between conversion orexile, and issued an order that any Buddhis He also set to his people an example of frugality. THE COURT IN KYOTOAll these things were watched with keen interest in Kyoto. It is reserved to the Russian subjects, inhabitants of theterritory ceded to Japan, to sell their real property and re
Taira Masakado, Minamoto Tsunemoto,Fujiwara Hidesato, and Taira Sadamori, who figure in the abovenarrative, were all ali line of the Tokugawafamily became extinct, and a successor to the shogunate had to besought from the T It fellto Yoshiiye, as governor of Mutsu, to quell the disturbance, and verydifficult the task proved, so difficult that Yoshida was the forerunner of Motoori,Hirata, and other comparatively modern philosophers who contended forthe revival of Pure Shinto.