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DIETThe military class did not allow themselves to be influenced by anyreligious scruples in their choice of viands. All thesewere propagandists of Zen-shu doctrine. 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. Nofeature is more remarkable than the fact that Japan can now build andequip in her own yards and arsenals warships of the largest size.

If the feudatoryor the deputy Were held to be acting contrary to the dictates ofintegrity and reason, the suitor might change his domicile for t But,in 1518, he was recalled to his province by an attack from the shugoof Izumo, and by financial embarrassment resulting from his owngenerosity in supplying funds to the Crown and the shogun. The Yamana leader was killed and his army completelyrouted. mising zeal of reform had earned him many enemies who watchedconstantly for an opportunity to attack him, and found it