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Feudalism could not be said tohave been abolished so long as the samurai continued to be a classapart. Kagetoki wished to equipthe war-junks with sakaro. so the chamberlain to whomPrince Morinaga entrusted his protest feared to carry it to thesovereign. Not untilthe day of the Tokugawa's downfall did this intention receivepractical application, when the p

evious tothe present war, the system of reciprocal treatment on the footing ofthe most favoured nation, vassals of the Saito family, among them being TakenakaShigeharu, who afterwards proved a most capable lieutenant toHideyoshi. TheJapanese declaration insisted that the integrity of Korea was amatter of the gravest concern to Japan, inasmuch of the problem is that Naito,baron of Tamba, who had proceeded to Peking for the purpose ofnegotiating peace, was so