It is most regrettablethat the nation's treasure should thus be squandered upon foreignluxuries. Thus the farmers elected a villagechief--called nanushi or shoya--who held his post for life or for oneyear, and who exercised powers scarcely inferior to those of agovernor. to restore the old relations, transmittingfor that purpose a hundred tallies to be carried by the merchantmen. ButYoshinari did not acquiesce.
The conquest of Korea had not in itself any special temptation. The Jesuits said of him: This man seems to have been chosen by God to open and prepare theway for our faith. Yet if he entertained such apprehensions, he nevercommunicated them to his mother, Masa, who, from her place of highprestige and commanding intellect, could have reshaped the issue. ing squadron, butthis was prevented by a deluge of blinding rain which lasted untilthe night of the 24th.
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