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espatched to Echigo to collect troops, and a youngerbrother, Yoshisuke, to Soma-yama on a similar errand. The Japanese commanders seem to have waited for some practicalassurances that the command of the sea would not be again wrestedfrom them; a natural Keicho, 20th year, 7th month (September 23, 1615). An attempt was made to set up a rival candidate forthe throne in the person of the Imperial lord-abbot of the Uenomonaste

Thefirst Hollanders that set foot in Japan were eighteen survivors ofthe crew of the wrecked Liefde. ted with Oye no Hiromoto in effectingmany important changes, the latter operating at Kamakura, the formerat Kyoto. The next incident of notewas a survey of the northern islands, made in 1800 by the famousmathematician, Ino Tadayoshi, and the despatch of another party ofBakufu investigators. Looking back to remote centuries, they may well have imagined thatthe unification of the empire under on