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hadseized Osaka, together with the wives and families of several of thecaptains who were with Ieyasu's army. There can be no doubtthat he himself had contemplated becoming shogun. Therefore he adopted three sons: thefirst, Sumiyuki, being the child of the regent, Fujiwara Masamoto;the second and third, Sumimoto and Takakuni, being kinsmen of hisown. Observing that the fences erected on the scarpof Yedo Castle were virtually useless for purposes of de

To the same endother religious establishments were successfully approached. Munemori, with the boy Emperor and all the survivors ofthe Taira, had fled by sea to join Tomomori at Hikoshima. Each empire asserted itsclaims with equal assurance, and things remained thus until 1880,when General Grant, who visited Japan in the course of a tour roundthe world, suggested a peaceful compromise. 9 per cent, of thetotal produce instead of being forty per cent.