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ith permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copiedand distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any feesor charges. tion of his orders, and thus precipitated acatastrophe for which Hideyoshi cannot justly be held responsible. ier himself passed on to the island of Hirado, wherehe was received by salvos of artillery from Portuguese vessels lyingin harbour. But their only achievement of practical importance was thedestruction of two large Japanese transports, the Hitachi Maru andthe Sado Maru.

To strike at Kyoto from this base required the previoussubjugation of Settsu, and, on the other hand, a strong army inSettsu menaced Yoshino. It amounted to theshooting-down of a few semi-savages. In 1657, as already related, Yedo was visited by aterrible conflagration, and another of scarcely less destructiveviolence Frank (1841-1912), article in EncyclopaediaBritannica quoted; Oriental Series referred toBronze culture in South