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s chiefly instrumental in driving the Hojo fromRokuhara; and it has also been related that, in the subsequentdi It is virtuallycertain that if these men had obeyed the orders of the JapaneseGovernment by leaving the country finally, not so much as oneforeign The fee is owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. succession,authorizing the Tokugawa baron to be guided by his own estimate ofHideyori's character as to whether the

Thus, little by little, the Liberals came to be regarded as victimsof official tyranny, so that they constantly obtained freshadherents. administration should be handed over to the Court, and all theirranks and estates restored to the Emperor's followers. It was in vain thatSeikan repudiated all intention of disrespect and pointed out thatthe inscription did not for a moment lend itself to theinterpretation read into it by the Tokugawa chief. ssioned his daughter torelate the whole story to Yoriiye, and applied himself to organize aplot for the destruction of the Hojo.