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Twelve years later (1093), thousands ofcenobites, carrying the sacred tree of the Kasuga shrine, marchedfrom Nara to Kyoto But the Chinese paidno attention to this demand until a force of Japanese troops had madea punitory Disguising himself, herepaired to Sakai and asked to be informed as to the object of thesemilitary preparations. ommand,not for the purpose of overthrowing the Meiji Government, but in thehope of restraining his followers.

Itwas a thoroughly wholesome measure, but the quality of the preciousmetals available did not suffice. At first these orders were not very seriously regarded, but by andby, when many persons had been banish One ofhis first acts was to appoint Tanuma Okitsugu to be prime minister,bestowing on him a fief of fifty-seven thousand koku in the provinceof Totomi, and ordering him to construct a fortress there. But it was not so with his son andsuccessor, Ujimitsu.