. The mikado's empire. ignals, and a prescribednumber of taps give the lo-cality and progress of theconflagration. Mints wereestablished, coins struck,weights and measures fixed;the system of ofiicial espion-age, checks, and counter-checks established; a gen-eral survey of the empireexecuted; maps of the vari-Fire-lookouts in Yedo, (Height shown by a kite ous provinces and plans offlown by a boy in the street.) ^^^ daimios castles were made, and their pedigrees made out and published; the councils calledIliojo-sho (Discussion and Decision), and Wakadoshiyori (Assemblyof Elders), established, a
. The mikado's empire. ignals, and a prescribednumber of taps give the lo-cality and progress of theconflagration. Mints wereestablished, coins struck,weights and measures fixed;the system of ofiicial espion-age, checks, and counter-checks established; a gen-eral survey of the empireexecuted; maps of the vari-Fire-lookouts in Yedo, (Height shown by a kite ous provinces and plans offlown by a boy in the street.) ^^^ daimios castles were made, and their pedigrees made out and published; the councils calledIliojo-sho (Discussion and Decision), and Wakadoshiyori (Assemblyof Elders), established, and Corean envoys received. The height of pride and ambition which lyemitsu had alreadyreached is seen in the fact that, in a letter of reply from the bakufuto Corea, the shogun is referred to as Tai Kun (Tycoon), a titlenever conferred by the mikado on any one, nor had lyemitsu any le-gal right to it. It was assumed in a sense honorary or meaningless toany Japanese, unless highly jealous of the mikados sovereignty, and. THE PERFECTION OF DUARCHY AND FEUDALISM. 287 was intended to overawe the barbarian Coreans. It is best explain-able in the light of the Virgilian phrase, magna pars fui, or the lessdignified Big Indian I. The building of the fine temples of Toyeizan, at Uyeno, in Yedo,and at Nikko, were completed in lyemitsus time, he making five jour-neys thither. He died in 1649, after a prosperous rule of twenty-sixyears, and was buried with his grandfather at Nikko. The successors of lyeyasu, the shoguns of the Tokugawa dynasty,fourteen in all, were, with one exception, buried alternately in thecemeteries of Zozoji and Toyeizan. in the city districts of Shiba andUyeno. These twin necropolises of the illustrious departed were thechief glories of Yedo, which was emphatically the city of the Toku-gawas. The remains of six of them lie in Uyeno, and six in Shiba,while two are at Nikko. During the summer of 1872, in company with an American friendand three of my brightest students
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