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nsto redress; at another time his host is an old samurai whose loyalrecord comes thus to the knowledge of the shikken and is subsequentlyrecognized. ted the Bakufu Court to a policy which the latter hadneither the power to carry out nor any intention of attempting tocarry out. Feudalism could not be said tohave been abolished so long as the samurai continued to be a classapart. His armies had shown that, for thepurpose of a campaign, the distance would be traversed in little morethan half of that time.

In the capital the bushi served aspalace guards; in the provinces they were practically independent. In 1657, as already related, Yedo was visited by aterrible conflagration, and another of scarcely less destructiveviolence This was because the Tokugawa found themselves sufficientlypowerful to dispense with such artificial aids. rawing pictures onfans,--testing literary and artistic skill; and making up lists ofrelated ideographs.