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The terms of the above show that Saris was expected to make Yedo hisheadquarters. l the great captains andstatesmen of the age had their origin and found their chief sphere ofaction. This inscription had been composed andwritten by a high Buddhist prelate, Seikan, reputed to be one of thegreatest scholars and most skilful calligraphists of his time. He succeededhis father, Tokimune, at the age of fourteen, and during nine yearshe remained under the tutel

Only a very strong arm could savehim, and with consummate insight he may have appreciated the Tokugawachief's unreadiness to precipitate a crucial struggle by consentingto his death. It has been repeatedly pleaded for the whollyunprogressive state into which Korea thenceforth fell. We have seen how, in1198, he abdicated in favour of his eldest son, Tsuchimikado. ***It is related of this Aoto Fujitsuna that, having dropped a fewcash into the Namera River at night, he ex