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ADOPTION OF WESTERN LEARNINGYoshimune was fond of astronomy. On theoccasion of a dispute between two of his vassals about the boundariesof a manor, the defeated litigant bribed one of Nobunaga's principalstaff-officers to appeal for reversal of the judgment. rdly, that Keiki of Mito and the feudatory of Echizen shouldbe appointed to high office in the Bakufu administration. This town lay on thenorthern shore of Shimonoseki Strait, and had long been the principalemporium of trade with China and Korea.

Another was the abolition of feudal fiefs, as well as of thesuccession of women to real estate, and a curtailm in stock farming; worship of; mythical andterrible beasts in early records; petsAnjin-Zuka, tomb of Will Adams, (ill. REFORM OF THE COURTYoritomo did not confine himself to re-casting the system ofprovincial administration. It was to the merchants, who stood between the farmers and thesamurai, that fortune offered conspicuously favourable opportunitiesin these circumstances.