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**Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th edition); article Japan, byBrinkley. They travelledround the country popularizing their art and immensely expanding thefield of literature. Equally foolhardy and marvellous was thedeed of Fujiwara Michinaga, who alone of a band of courtiers in t econdly, because internecine war raged throughout almostthe whole of the main island, whereas Kyushu enjoyed comparativetranquillity.

Finally,on the occasion of his expedition against the Hojo of Odawara, whenthe sailors of Mishima, in Sagami, objected to Not the least memorable step taken byhim related to the fortress of Yedo. A correlated fault was excessive reverence for rank and rigidexclusiveness of class. MatsudairaSadanobu, son of Tayasu Munetake and grandson of Yoshimune, provedhimself one of the most capable administrators Japan had hithertoproduced.