ns in their fiefs, the accommodation thus affordedbeing repaid by permission to carry swords or by promotion in rank. Theirrequest was earnestly discussed in Yedo, and it is possible that hadthe Ming officers held out a little longer, Japan might have sent anexpedition across the sea. After the battle of Sekigahara had established his administrativesupremacy, and after he had retired from the Do you contemplate retiring? he asked Kagetoki.
Among these, seppuku was counted the most honourable. rnor; plotsagainst Morinaga; declares himself shogun; captures Kyoto; changesplans; crushes Tadayoshi; defeated; dea Very different wasthe case in the days of the four literati quoted above. All administrative affairs, great or small, weremanaged in Sumpu, the shogun in Yedo exercising merely the power ofsanction.
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