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For the future, to those retainers whomay be animated by such an idea, their respective lords shouldintimate, constantly and in very strong terms, their disapproval ofthe custom. It was inconceivable that such a man should err flagrantly in the useof the ideographic script. ensive at beginning of Shokyustruggle; death--Masafusa, general in Nine Years' Commotion; attempt to pla They despatched from Seoul a columnof troops and routed the Chinese entrenched at Asan, many of whomfled northward to

The bitterness of this language was intensified by a comment made tothe Japanese envoys when handing them the above despatch. They also noted the shogun's decisions and appended them todocuments. TheEmperor Okimachi had ascended the throne in 1557. mpetence, and when, afterseven days' sickness, he saw the end approaching, his last commissionwas that n