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,an income of one-tenth of their feudal revenues was guaranteed tothem--a sum which generally exceeded their Nevertheless, among all the reforms introduced during theMeiji era, none was counted so hazardous as the substitution of aconscript army for the nation's traditional soldiers. s to the influence of the Christian God,and shortly afterwards he proclaimed banishment for all who would notaccept the foreign faith. ich formed the main part of a flotilla carryingreinforcements by sea to the van of the invading army.

Up to that time therelations between the Courts of Kyoto and Yedo had left nothing to bedesired, but now a permanent breach of amity took place. Kiyomori's son, Munemori, upon whomdevolved the direction of the great clan's affairs, was whollyincompetent for such a trust. ney thus expended was merely put intocirculation, whereas the dropped money would have been irrevocablylost. Kenju escaped through Omi to Echizen, where the highconstable, an Asakura, combining with the high constable, a Togas