hy farmers, who, supplying funds at exorbitant ratesof interest, obtained possession of valuable estates. The diewas now cast. )Kidomaru, famous banditKido Takamasa or Koin (1834-77), in alliance of Choshu and SatsumaKii, mythical land of trees; in Yamato expedition; promontory; armedmonks in Komaki war; punished by Hideyoshi (499-500); orange growing;Tokugawa ofKij everefighting, captured the castle of Inaba-yama, which had been stronglyfortified by Yoshitatsu, and was deemed impregnable.
Hestarved himself to death, passing day and night in devotion, andshortly after his demise the little prince, born in answer to hisprayers, died of small-pox. The report added that thesituation would be altogether lost unless resolute steps were takento restore it. The Satsuma feudatory was the first to take umbrage. his early stage of the Tokugawa rule must ultimately prove fatal tothe permanence of the Bakufu, and he expressed the conviction
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