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That was one of the pacific programmes. In the eighth century, the Chinese costume and etiquette were adoptedby the Court. diers; and he pursued thepastime so ardently that men gave him the name of the Taka-shogun(Falcon shogun). He returned when his comradeswere condemned and gave himself up to the authorities, but theydeclined to punish him on the ground that the case had already beendisposed of.

Apart from the great issue directly at stake, namely, whetherJapan should have a permanent military class, a secondary problem ofmuch interest found a solution in the result. toprevent oversea enterprise, he caused to be constructed for the useof the Bakufu a great ship called the Ataka Maru, which re Basara is a Sanskrit term for costly luxuries ofevery description, and the compilers of the code were doubtlesssincere in their desire to popularize frugality. Theisland had just then been visited by a series of uniquely disastrousearthquakes, which had either overthrown or rendered uninhabitableall the great edifices in and around Kyoto.