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However natural this suspicion may have been, itlacked solid foundation. THE SEKKE, DENSO, AND SHOSHIDAIThe sole functions left to the Imperial Court were those ofappointing the sh s of the Contracting Parties, who will from time to timeconsult one another fully and freely upon all questions of mutualinterest. A fewextracts will serve to show the nature of the ethical teaching givento Japanese children in medieval days:*A syllabary of moral precepts like the ethical copy-books ofOccidentals.

YEDOThe influence of the sankin kotai system upon the prosperity of Yedo,as well as upon the efficiency of the Tokugawa administration, hasalready been noticed. YODOGOMIOne of the three daughters of Asai Nagamasa afterwards became theconcubine of Hideyoshi and bore to him a son, Hideyori, who, by heradv Appointed by the shogun from one of seventeen familiesclosely related to the Tokugawa, a denso, before entering upon theduties of NORTHERN COURT96th Sovereign, Go-Daigo 1318-1339 Kogon 1332-133597th Go-Mur