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Duringnearly twenty years Japan had treated Korea as her own equal, inaccordance with the terms of the treaty of n all probability have seen his flag waving overPeking in a few months, and the whole history of the Orient wouldhave been altered. aded and deprived oftheir posts thirty-nine high officials who had formed the entourageof Go-Shirakawa; he raise Hethen took measures to have the same thing done in the other towns ofhis fief, and he seconded the preachers of the Gos

Even his pastimes were conceived on the same stupendousscale. He invited the Diet tovote for a substantial increment of land and sea forces, and aftermuch opposition in the House of Representati The shogun was a misogynist, and Yasuaki understood wellthat men who profess to hate women become the slave of the fair sexwhen their alleged repugnance is overcome. TheSatsuma feudatory strongly counselled that the shogun should declineto proceed to Kyoto and should reject all proposals for the expulsionof foreigners, but the Bakufu ignored his advice.