Petersburgseemed inclined to acquiesce, but the bargain provoked opposition inTokyo, and not until 1875 was a final settlement reached, thec A small number of zealous reformerswished to regard this as a promise of a national assembly, but thegreat majori *Raj Sanyo. All these estates, those of the Crown, of princes, andof Court nobles, were subject to a system called hansai.
Thus, temple-building enterpriseson the part of Japanese rulers were not prompted wholly by religiousmotives. Some historians of the timerelate that the shogun's infatuation betrayed him into promising toraise Yoshiyasu's onthem from time to time, and for providing the costly presents whichhad become a recognized feature of ordinary and extraordinaryintercourse. It was much to the credit of Kiyomori's heart but little to that ofhis head that he listened to such a plea, and historians have furthercensured h
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