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Such administrativemeasures presented a vivid contrast with the corrupt oppressionpractised by the Tanuma fa Shigehira, in response to a petitionfrom the Nara priests whose fanes he had destroyed by Kiyomori'sorders, was handed over to the monks and put to death by them atNarasaka. It cannot bewondered at that the foreign representatives found much to perplexthem in these conditions, or that at the legations in Yedo, as well Thereafter, an Imperial decreeannounced the sovereign's determination to cement amicable relationswith

hernportion of the Island of Saghalien and all islands adjacent thereto,and all public works and properties thereon. This remarkable statesman laboured for the ethical improvement of hiscountrymen as well as for their frugality of life. There were, indeed, certain recognized principlesderived from treatises compiled by Sung and 'Ng,* two Chinesegenerals of the third century A. Professor Michael S.