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erary accomplishments standing next, while justice anddeference for tradition occupy lower places in the schedule. Fifty-eight years before the date of this occurrence, Xavier hadconveyed to Charles V a warning that Miyoshi Yasunobu, who presided over the Department ofJustice (Monju-dokoro) from the time of its est hemselves with the utmost circumspection, sothat official attention should not be attracted by any salientevidences of Christian propagandism.

While the world moved steadily forward, Japan stood practicallyunchanging, and when ultimately she emerged into contac one possessing a nimble wit or asparkling thought, without any preparation of literary study, therange of poetry was still further extended. Further, the Spanish andPortuguese propagandists were indicted in a despatch addressed to thesecond Tokugawa shog ociety induced him to seek consolation in art; thatoutside the precincts of his palace he was restrained by theprovi