. The Far East and the new America; a picturesque and historic account of these lands and peoples, with the following special articles: China. combination of the. WISTARIA Ursil. harmony of the warlike pageantry and the beautiful and picturesqueofferings of Nature. This has been a fruit of feudalism. With this in the mind, it is easy to imderstand the two distinct classesof citizens : the shizoku, patricians, or military class ; the heimin, civilians,or commoners. At the founding of Kyoto, the ancient capital, before thesupremacy of the sword had jjlaced in the front rank of [lOwer a rivaldyna
. The Far East and the new America; a picturesque and historic account of these lands and peoples, with the following special articles: China. combination of the. WISTARIA Ursil. harmony of the warlike pageantry and the beautiful and picturesqueofferings of Nature. This has been a fruit of feudalism. With this in the mind, it is easy to imderstand the two distinct classesof citizens : the shizoku, patricians, or military class ; the heimin, civilians,or commoners. At the founding of Kyoto, the ancient capital, before thesupremacy of the sword had jjlaced in the front rank of [lOwer a rivaldynasty, the difference between the upper and lower strata of populationwas less marked. The subject lived nearer to his sovereign. But thiscondition gradually changed as the shogun grew in influence, vuitil thenumerous class comprising the tillers of tlie soil, the fisliermen, the JAPAN. 341 traders and traffickers of commodities, had nothing in common withthe aristocratic patricians who had assumed the reins of government byarmed force. The commoner came to know nothing of the ambition ofmilitary glory, of the pleasure of office, and pride in the dazzling co
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