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d toshame and extensive suffering, till at last for their devotion to theLord of Heaven, they are tortured to death. ** It is related of him that he devoted hiswhole fortune to objects of charity, and that when Tokiyori, claiminga revelation from heav It would seem, too, that he sacrificed justice to thefear of alienating his supporters. Thetradesman stood at the bottom of the scale, and the farmer, as theprincipal taxpayer, ranked next to the military man.

But a storm having devastated their fields, theywere unable to keep their pledge. The mansion was surrounded by a deep moat which he couldnot cross. declined thehonour, and suggested that titles of lower grade should be given tothose of his subordinates who had shown conspicuous merit. , whoadopted the interpretation of Confucianism given by a later Chinesephilosopher, Wang Yang-ming (1472-1529).