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Nevertheless, one contingency presented itself ina dangerous light. Thereafter, for some years, Hirado remainedoutside the pale of foreign trade. This edict of 1616differed from that issued by Ieyasu in 1614, since the latter did notexplicitly prescribe the death-penalty for converts refusing toapostatize. The first envoy from the Ming Court under this treaty was met byYoshimitsu himself at Hyogo, and being escorted to Kyoto, washospitably lodged in a hotel there.

foreign nations, and declared that any Japanese subject guiltyof violence to a foreigner would be acti Thatdignity falls to Tsunayoshi and to Tsunayoshi alone. PREFACE TO THE ONIN WARWe now arrive at a chapter of Japanese history infinitely perplexingto the reader. He stood between the Jesuits and the Throne when, in reply to anappeal from Buddhist priests, the Emperor Okimachi, for the s