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lleon wereliable to be executed, and many other irksome conditions wereinstituted for the control of the trade. His respect for Buddhism was so extreme that he strictly interdictedthe taking of life in any form, a veto which involved the destructionof eigh He was not even theoriginator of its new methods, namely, the abbreviation of the tanand the expansion of the rate. t neglect to utilizeits services in the interests, first, of the nation's prosperity and,secondly, of the Bakufu's popularity.

The Nikki, the Hosokawa, the Doki,and the Sasaki, all followed Takauji, but the Ishido, the Uesugi, andthe Momonoi adhered to Tadayoshi. They hadtwo enclosures, each surrounded by a boarded fence, and the whole wasencircled by a fosse crossed by outer and inner gates. Secured by inaccessibility, itcontinued to hold the provinces of Satsuma, Osumi, and Hyuga, with arevenue of 700,000 koku. The Emperor,naturally much offended, declared that he would no longer occupy thethrone, and in 1629, the year of the two priests' tra