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Some of the feudal chiefs, even atthe risk of losing their estates, gave asylum to the converts; othersfalsely When they were on the eve of decamping, however, theyreceived from Yasutoki an invitation to a feast at which their bondswere burned in their presence and every debtor was given half abushel of rice. 1687-1710)In 1687, the Emperor Reigen abdicated in favour of Higashiyama, thena boy of thirteen, Reigen continuing to administer affairs frombehind the curtain as was usual. CONVENTION AND MORALITYIf the men of the period were effeminate and emotional, the womenseem to have sunk to a lower stage

Article XLIV. Some scores of them, wearing old-fashioned armour andequipped with hereditary weapons, attacked a castle, killed orwounded three hundred of the garrison, and then died by their ownhands. The Motochika faction, however, though defeated, were not destroyed. Kenjupossessed extraordinary eloquence.