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and county assemblies, is an annualpayment of direct national taxes to the amount of three yen (6s. esuits inBungo to his fief, offering them a free port for ten years, anextensive tract of land, a residence for the missionaries, and otherprivileges. Among them were Fujita Toko (1806-1855) and Toda Tadanori,who are not less remarkable as scholars and historians than asadministrators. Carrying the head ofMuneuji, Saemon presented it to his chief and then disembowelledhimself in expiation of his disobedience.

But it chanced that among the rear vassals of the Imagawathere was one, Nagauji, who, during many years, had harboured designsof large ambition. edHai-ryong, a place destined to acquire much importance in moderntimes as the point of junction of the Kilin-Korean railways. Butthese figures included the Mediterranean squadron which, surprised bythe outbreak of hostilities, abandoned its journey to the Pacific. *It has always been a common custom in Japan for the head of a familyto retire nominally from active life after he attains his fiftiethyear.