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e attempted to invade Ryukyu, the Shimazu received Muromachi's(Yoshitane's) commission to punish him. The Bakufu insisted that to conveysuch a document direct from the Throne to a feudatory was a plaintrespass upon the shogun's authority. he conclusion of a new treaty of commerce andnavigation on the basis of the Treaty which was in force pr Not only did thisremarkable man frankly advocate foreign trade for its own sake and asa means of enriching the nation, thus dev

Evenworse was the case with the provincial manors of the Court nobles,who were ultimately driven to leave the capital and establish directconnexion with their properties. er and without any of the gifts usual on suchoccasions according to the diplomatic custom of the Orient. A naval college (Gunkan Kyojujo)also was organized at Tsukiji, in Yedo, while at Akunoura, inNagasaki, an iron-foundry was erected. The Motochika faction, however, though defeated, were not destroyed.