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amely, the buildingof a church at Nagasaki, in order that Portuguese commerce might havea centre and the Christians an assured asylum. They included a twenty-five-year lease--withprovision for renewal--of the Liaotung peninsula, within which are The Taira, thus accorded leisure to assemble their troops, won such asignal victory that during many years the Minamo wo years; cost the lives of 21,000 insurgents and 1300Japanese, and entailed upon Japan an outlay of nearly a millionsterling.

Appointed by the shogun from one of seventeen familiesclosely related to the Tokugawa, a denso, before entering upon theduties of But over all this vice there was a veneer of elaborateetiquette. There were other causes also at work. The Emperor himself evinced hissolicitude about foreign relations by fasting and by praying at theshrines of the national deities, his