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and county assemblies, is an annualpayment of direct national taxes to the amount of three yen (6s. vernment, we can easily appreciate that to sanction commercialrelations might well have shaken the Bakufu to their foundations. decide the issue, and that the rendering ofjustice by the chief of the Bakufu became thenceforth a notinfrequently practised habit. Not otherwise can we account forhis leniency towards the Ko brothers, who were guilty of suchviolations of propriety.

est interests of the empireare involved, and no man ought to be vain enough to imagine that heis able by himself to develop it thoroughly. But the Jinno Shotoki did not fall on fruitfulsoil. Thus an estate paying onehundred koku in the form of land-tax, had to pay a further five kokuas buke-yaku, the latter proceeds being sent to Kyoto for the use ofthe shogun's household. would be as easy to procure one, whereas if one ofthe shogun's lineage were nominated, he would be difficult todisplace.