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YORITOMO's CHARACTERJapanese historians have written much about this illustrious man. Even the private domains of the cloistered Emperor himself, to saynothing of the manors of the courtiers, were freely entered andplundered, so that public indignation reached a high pitch. As tokensof exchange, copper coins were imported from China, and were known inJapan as Eiraku-sen, Eiraku being the Japanese pronunciation of theChinese era, Yunglo. At the same time (1583), land surveyors (kendenshi) were appointed tocompile a map of the entire country.

THE GENNA YEAR-PERIOD (1615-1623)The battle of Sekigahara is often spoken of as the last greatinternecine campaign in Japanese history, but this is hardly borneout by the facts. There were schools, colleges, and universities, allmodelled on foreign lines with such alterations as the specialcustoms of the nation dictated. The task of restoringorder and re-establishing the Ashikaga supremacy demanded all hisability and resources. Stone axes and hatchets (MUTSUI OTARU, a polished Stone; Meguro, nearTOKYO; and SHIMOSA).