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EDUCATIONSince the shogun Tsunayoshi (1680-1709) appointed Hayashi Nobuatsu aschief of Education in Yedo, and entrus Whether Ieyasu appreciated that factor whether he ignored it in consideration of the civilizing andtranquillizing influences of Confucianism, there is nothing to show. DIETThe military class did not allow themselves to be influenced by anyreligious scruples in their choice of viands. Only onesaving clause offered for Japan--to obtain from China a guaranteethat no portion of Manchuria should thereafter be leased or ceded toa foreign State.

In the first Annual Letter sent to Rome after theseevents a striking admission is made: It is Otomo, next to God, whomthe Jesuits have to thank for their success in Japan. *It is to be understood, of course, that these ministrations wereintended to be limited to Spaniards resident in Japan. hich was decided by two things; first, the defection of TsutsuiJunkei, who refrained from striking un So could theprovincial nobles, who it seems did not in other periods make much ofa showing at the capital.