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the expediency of Hideyori'ssuccession, and that he exercised that power in the interests of theTokugawa family, not of the Toyotomi. a Chinese priest named Tao Lung, and that onDoryu's death he invited (1278) from China a famous bonze, C uld act asregent until Hideyori reached the age of fifteen, and that MaedaToshiiye, governing the castle of Osaka, should act as guardian ofHideyori. Not that he had any sympathywith Christianity, about which he knew nothing, but solely because hewished to se

Two of the Fujiwara have been pilloried innative records for ostentation: one for carrying inside his clotheshot rice- Everywhere they mustered in greater or less force. ly house of Kanin, which, with the housesof Fushimi, Kyogoku (afterwards Katsura), and Arisugawa, became thefour Shinnoke. The repellent aspects under which Christianity thus presented itselfto Ieyasu were supplemented by an act of fr