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aira leaders were known to be just thenstraining every nerve to beat back the westward-rolling tide ofMinamoto conquest. He committed suicide, remarking calmly, It is better to die trustedthan to live doubted. Estates were givento them, whether restored or newly bestowed, and they were treatedmuch as were the hatamoto of the Yedo shogunate in later times. He also set to his people an example of frugality.

political foes; and it must furtherbe noted that the question of locality had another injurious outcome. He acted in this matter withoutwaiting to seek sanction from the Bakufu, and his discretion wasrewarded by appointment to the high office of inspector-general ofpolice (o-metsuke). BUDDHISM AND CHRISTIANITYIt has been shown that the Shimabara revolt finally induced theBakufu Government to adopt the policy of international seclusion andto extirpate Christianity. ;further interference of Crown and Court party; power endedBaltic squadron, Russian, defeated by TogoBambelsu or B