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This reign is remarkable for a change in thesystem hitherto uniformly pursued, namely, that all Impe ich he described at once as that of lord and vassal andthat of parent and child, and predicated that refusal of intercoursewould lead to war. In other words, he adopted the eclectic systemof Buddhism and Confucianism as compounded by the scholars of theSung and the Yuan epochs, in preference to the system of earlierpundits. amped outside the city whence they marched in,ten thousand daily, during seventeen consecutive days.

Moreover, theSpaniards seemed incapable of any successful effort to establishtrade with Japan. But Kiyomori was not a man of original or brilliantconceptions. ENGRAVING: IWAKURA TOMOYOSHITHE FORMOSAN EXPEDITIONBefore these curious conditions bore any practical fruit, Japan foundit necessary to send a military expedition to Formosa. A comet made itsappearance and was regarded with anxiety by the astrologists ofKyoto, who associated its advent with certain misfortune.