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At a palace fete in 1117 the extreme of elegance wasreached by ladies each wearing a score or so of different colouredrobes. Such were the existing conditions when, in 1587, Hideyoshi calledupon the Korean monarch to explain the cessation of the old-timecustom of exchanging envoys. Somany suffered by his reforms, and in such quick succession, that thehatred he provoked could scarcely have been kept within control. Thus, Japan came to hold in Manchuria a positionsomewhat contradictory.

These camps werenothing more than bluffs overlooking the sea on the south, andprotected on the land side by moats and earthworks. It was on suchan errand of mercy that the sailing ship Morrison entered Yedo Bay,in 1837, and being required to repair to Kagoshima, was driven fromthe latter place by cannon shot. e of horses largely, but in later days theAshikaga did not move away from Kyoto and had no use for horses. ENGRAVING: OSONAE (New Year Offering to Family Tutelary Deity)ENGRAVING: PALANQUINS (Used in Old Japan Only by the Nobility)CHAPTER XXXTHE WAR