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Yet, though many untowardissues were thus averted, there was no sign that growingresponsibility brought to Kiyomori any access of circumspection. nding the limits of the electoratesso as to include the whole of a prefecture, and increasing themembers of the lower house to 363. million yen at the close of thefirst five years of the Meiji era, they passed freely from hand tohand without discount. Thesubsequent paragraphs provide that men of special ability forgovernment work should be chosen for the office of shugo;

knowledged his defeat,adopted Christianity, and invited his vassals as well as his familyto follow his example. Genuine loyalty to the sovereign found no place inthe practical code of Tokugawa. In the same year, it was decreed that no one should be eligible for apost in the civil service unless he was an avowed follower of theChutsz philosophy. Yet we are now to be punished.