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Their strategy and desperate valour proved invincible, however, andthe Kagoshima samurai won, on October 30, 1598, a vic It is recorded that Nobunaga's demeanour in battle truly reflectedthe spirit of these verses. Hewas not prepared, however, and the result was that he found himselfmenaced by Yoshikage's army in front and by Nagamasa's in rear. The Emperor himself evinced hissolicitude about foreign relations by fasting and by praying at theshrines of the national deities, his

Thecomparatively small areas of land within which the jito officiatedsoon came to be recognized as their priva There was no open disavowal of conservatism, but, onthe other hand, there was no attempt to enforce it. THE MEIJI GOVERNMENT AND FOREIGN INTERCOURSEThe year-name was now changed to Meiji (Enlightened Government), fromJanuary 1, 1868, a term fully justified by events. The Emperor--Okimachi--bestowed on him a sword, and theshogun, Yoshiteru, entitled him to incorporate the ideograph teru in his name, which was thus changed from Kagetora to Terutora.