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His estates far exceeded thoseof the Crown; the presents offered to him by all ranks reached anenormous total It may be stated at once here that thelandsteward system did not work altogether satisfactorily. Thisprocedure seems to have weighed cogently with Otomo, who was keenlydesirous of attracting foreign traders and obtaining from them notonly wealth but also novel and effective weapons of war. The struggle lasted from 1337 to 1392, a period of fifty-five years.

ng the number of articles to one hundred, andcalling it Tokugawa Hyakkajd, or One Hundred Laws and Regulations ofthe Tokugawa. o becomeformidable, and to Nagasaki, which was one of the four Imperialcities, the other three being Yedo, Kyoto, and Osaka. d and handed over a number of Koreanrenegades, who had been acting as guides to Japanese pirates indescents on the Korean coast. Moreover, in the most important places--as Osaka,Fushimi, Sakai, Nagasaki, Yamada (in Ise), and Sado (the gold mines),there were appo