Each empire asserted itsclaims with equal assurance, and things remained thus until 1880,when General Grant, who visited Japan in the course of a tour roundthe world, suggested a peaceful compromise. This letter wascirculated among the feudatories, who were invited to express theiropinions on the document. There was noissue of the marriage, and it being certain that there could be noissue, two candidates for the shogunate were proposed. But Nagamasa had always been on terms of closeamity with Yoshikage, and, indeed, had stipulated from the outsetthat Nobunaga should not make war against the latter.
It fellto Yoshiiye, as governor of Mutsu, to quell the disturbance, and verydifficult the task proved, so difficult that The Jesuits, however, were not to be deterred by personal peril. yards, they were so badly injured that they returned tothe port and were sunk by their own crews, together with thetransport Sungari. Therevolution which involved the fall of the shogunate, and ultimatelyof feudalism, may be called democratic with regard to the personnelof those who planned and directed it.
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