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solely as an instrument foreliciting the views of the samurai, and entirely without legislativepower. ployedfifty thousand labourers at a cost of a one thousand ryo in gold, forthe purpose of felling the trees and transporting them to Kyoto. Two pacific programmes offered and she adopted them both. These orders were implicitly obeyed,and as Ieyasu had omitted to indicate any limit for the work ofdes

Themost credible explanation is that on this great occasion the samuraiobeyed their habitual custom of associating some form ofself-immolation with every signal deed. If any further evidence were needed of Hideyoshi's discriminationbetween trade and religion, it is furnished by h val successorsof these families looked to Hosokawa Katsumoto for aid; thirdly, thatthe relations between Sozen and Katsumoto THE 107TH SOVEREIGN, THE EMPEROR GO-YOZEI (A.