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Even in the field a breach of etiquette was a deadlyinsult: as we have seen (p. thepractice of medicine, were sometimes able to make such display, tolive in pretentious houses and have many servants. A new and powerful party was thus formed underthe designation of Friends of the Constitution (Rikken Seiyukai). ctical authority;that the people did not know where to make complaint; that thedispleasure of heaven was e

In no country were class distinctions morescrupulously observed than in Japan. With Ieyasu were the powerfuldaimyo: Date Masamune of Sendai (580,000 koku); Kato Kiyomasa ofKumamoto (250,000 koku); Hosok xit from serious dilemmas and the wisest means of utilizing greatoccasions, he has had few equals in the history of the world. ial conduct, wasfollowed, in 1767, by reforms under the shoqun, Ieharu, when all thelaws and regulations placarded or oth