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ommand,not for the purpose of overthrowing the Meiji Government, but in thehope of restraining his followers. acked Chekiang; thatin 1560, they made their way to Taitsang, and thence pushed ontowards Shanghai, Sungteh, etc. Now, for many years past the Miura family had ranked next to the Hojoin power and above it in wealth, but the two had always been loyalfriends. There can be no doubt whatever that the Russian army hadsuffered one of the most overwhelming defeats in i

(4) An adopted son shall always be chosen from the family of hisadopter; and a female shall never be adopted to be the head of afamily, no such custom having existed in Japan at any time. Tradition has busied itself much withTokiyori's life. The era is memorablefor the assassination of a shogun. g that such ascheme would be an act of lunacy, since Hideyoshi's presence alonesecured the empire against recurrence of domestic strife.