Kyoto, consecrated it with the utmost pomp, and werepreaching sermons and chaunting litanies there in flagrant defianceof Hideyoshi's veto. This vast domain descended to his son Motohira, and to thelatter's son, Hidehira, whose name we shall presently find in largeletters on a page of Japanese history. Anotherstep taken by the shogun was to institute a search for old booksthroughout the country, and to collect manuscripts which had beenkept in various families for generations. Tadayoshi escaped to Izu, where hetook poison, or was given it.
Chiba Tsunetane, speciallydespatched from Kamakura, dealt drastically with this nuisance, andgood order was finally restored. And all this was in the line of along-continued Japanese policy--the policy thanks to which Chineseinfluence had made itself so That struggle culminated in an assault on the castle ofOsaka, and fresh fuel was added to the fire of anti-Christi During the latter part of that time, Hideyoshiencouraged his soldiers to indulge in all sorts of amusements, andthus th
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