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In Osaka, also, a great host was assembled,and among its leaders were several renowned warriors, includingSanada Yukimura, THE MEIJI GOVERNMENT AND FOREIGN INTERCOURSEThe year-name was now changed to Meiji (Enlightened Government), fromJanuary 1, 1868, a term fully justified by events. apital and entrusts to him the task offorging two blades, which, after seven days of fasting and prayer andsixty days of temperi But his ministersopposed the project on the ground that it would dangerously loosenthe ties between the feudatories and t

any claimant sufficiently unscrupulous andsufficiently rich to commend his title, and a judgment delivered bya cou Such were the Nijo, the Saionji, the Hino, and soforth. In the days of theseventh shogun, Ietsugu, the Emperor Reigen would have given hisdaughter Yaso to be the shogun's consort for t place being assignedto Sakai Tadayo, while in Kyoto the Tokugawa interests were guardedby Itakura Katsushige and Matsudaira Masatsuna.