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These latter islands had always been regarded as Japaneseproperty, and therefore the arrangement now effected amo But the troops accepted giftsoffered to them by the feudatories and left the churches standing,while Hideyoshi not only fai Japanese historiansthemselves admit the fact that no wise effort was made to conciliatethe Korean people. Forced by riotousmobs, or constrained by his own needs, the Muromachi shogun issuedtokusei edicts again and

Great misgivingswere expressed by foreign onlookers at this juncture. Such ametamorphosis has greatly perplexed some students of Japanesehistory. The bushi ofthese days knew nothing about bastions, curtains, glacis, or cognaterefinements of military engineering. This wasnotably the case with the Ouchi, whose tradal connexions gave themspecial access to Chinese books.