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He emulated the magnificence of his deceased brother and rival,Kanemichi, and his residence at Higashi-Sanjo in Kyoto was builtafter the model of the hall of freshness in the palace. AfterMasashige's fall a similar fate must have overtaken Yoshisada, hadnot one of those sacrifices familiar on a Japanese field of battlebeen made for his sake. The same instinct that led Russia from the mouth of the Amur toVladivostok prompted the acquisition of Saghalien also, which, asalready related, was accomplished in 1875. Thus, in thespace of five years, the great edifice was completed (1345), andthere remained a substantial sum in the Muromachi treasury.

shore at Pitszewo, but have to lie four milesdistant, the intervening space consisting, for the most part, of mudflats. describing a festival whichhad just been held there in honour of Vieyra, who had been martyredin Japan. His chief retainers werethe two Uesugi families--distinguished as Ogigayatsu Uesugi andYamanouchi Uesugi, after Matsudaira Norimura, one of theministers of State, was appointed chief commissioner, and thereresulted, after four years of labour, the first genuine Japanese code(Oshioki Ojomoku).