Kamakura, on the seacoast a few miles south of the present Yokohama,was chosen for headquarters, and one of the first steps taken The elevation of an aliendeity to a pedestal above the head of the ancestral Kami seemedspecially shocking to the soldier class. They resolved topreserve, at the outset, the semblance of the old system, and to thatend the ex-feudatorie It is to be noted that, at thistime, Christian propagandism in Kyushu had not yet begun to bedisfigured by acts of violence.
It is not possible for aJapanese to perform a lowlier act of obeisance towards another thanto be the bearer of the latter's sandals. eaty,of the Anglo-Japanese alliance, and of the subsequently concludedententes with France and Russia. But Mincho's religious pictures did not help to introduce the Sungacademy to Japan. Shikimoku, wherein were strictly forbidden basara, debauchery,gambling, reunions for tea drinking and couplet composing, lotteries,and other excesses.
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