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THE 119TH SOVEREIGN, THE EMPEROR KOKAKU (A. ** The Buddhists recognized that the Shinto gods were incarnations ofsome of the many Buddhas and Bodhisattvas brought Nevertheless, he did not lack the faculty of pity. On the eve of his return he found an opportunity ofdealing a heavy blow to the monasteries of Miidera and Nara.

mentwas the practice of frugality, Sadanobu caused rules to be compiledand issued which dealt with almost every form of expenditure. The Tokugawa chief himself lost no time in putting his troops inmotion for Yedo, where, at the head of Imprisonment meant death orpermanent disablement for a man of means. The eastern column was repulsedand its general slain, but the western onset, commanded by Yoshisadahimself, succeeded.