ISE AND NIKKOThrough many centuries it had been the custom of the Imperial Courtto worship at the great shrine of Ise and to offer suitable gifts. ICATIONONE of the problems which invited the attention of the new Governmentearly in the Meiji era had been handed down from the days offeudalism. As for Go-Daigo, whatever abilityhe had shown in misfortune seemed to desert him in prosperity. Sostrict was this injunction that even in the case of renovating agarment which carried the kiku-kiri crest by permission, the badgemight not be repeated on the restored garment.
He discharged all thesefair-faced ladies and kept only the ill-favoured ones, his assignedreason being that centralizing the powers of the State, and he sought torecover for the Throne its administrative functions. personally sat asjudge, the duty of executing his judgments being entrusted to thebugyo and other officials. But no sooner hadhe been landed in Manila than he took passage in a Chinese junk, and,returning to Nagasaki, made his way secretly from the far south ofJapan to the province of Kii.
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