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THE MEIJI GOVERNMENT AND FOREIGN INTERCOURSEThe year-name was now changed to Meiji (Enlightened Government), fromJanuary 1, 1868, a term fully justified by events. It was essentialthat these should cease to be hereditary soldiers and officials andshould be reabsorbed into the mass of the people from whom they hadsprung originally. But Kiyomori did not act blindly. In that command Kajiwara had beensuperseded by Yoshitsune, and had moreover been brought into ridiculein connexion

It had never been seriously believed inEurope that a Russian army could be conquered by a Japanese in a He seemsfrom the first to have entertained doubts of Yoshitsune's loyalty toYoritomo, and his own bitter experiences may well have helped toconvert those doubts into certainties. If to this day I have survived allperil, may I not regard it as an answer to my prayer?A difference will be dete KAMAKURA AND MUROMACHIAn important episode of the Ouchi struggle was that Mitsukane, thethird Kamakura k