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In it he wrote: 'An officerin command of an army should respect the sovereign; treat hissubordinates with clemency but decision; leave his fate in heaven'shands, and not blame others. The Ikko-shu,however, had its own internal dissensions. Thatwould have invested the Kamakura Government with new dignity in theeyes of the nation. Nothing, indeed, is moreremarkable than the calm confidence shown at this crisis by theBakufu regent, Tokimune.

A party of British subjects, threegentlemen and a lady, met, at Namamugi on the Tokaido, the cortege ofthe Satsuma feudatory as he was returning from Yedo. itary and economicalinterests, engage neither to obstruct nor interfere with the measuresof guidance, It is necessary to note, too, with regard to these manors, that manyof them were tax-free lands (koderi) granted in perpetuity. TheGovernment, in short, had to inspire the reform movement and, at thesame time, to furnish models of its working.