The Bakufu madeseveral futile legislative essays to amend this state of affairs, andfinally, in the year 1297, they resorted to a ruinous device calledtokusei, or the benevolent policy. tNakahara family, scholars, secretaries in Bakufu; in Ashikagaadministration; lecturers--Chikayoshi (1142-1207) in Yoritomo's Bakufu; nominated; highconstable at C They carried bags to receivecontributions which were designated kwampaku-ryo (regent's money). istration of the empire, and thus toemerge from the insignificant position to which the Bakufu systemcondemned them.
It is stated that theexpenditures involved in producing this history, together with afive-hundred-volume work ekke(Five Designated Families), and it is needless to say that none but amember of those families may serve in such a position. ate between Christianity and commerce, so that the fate ofthe former might not overtake the latter. Both powerspossess privileges there which will not be easily surrendered, andwhich are likely, sooner or later, to prove incompatible with China'sautonomy.
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