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In theseexaminations the important paper was in Chinese prose composition,which was much as if Latin p OF THE TOKUGAWA BAKUFUTHE organization of the Tokugawa Bakufu cannot be referred to anyearlier period than that of the third shogun, Iemitsu. Neither will anyone denythat his resourcefulness amounted to genius. They had, indeed, a tolerable placeof arms in the province of Kawachi, but in the end they succumbed totopographical disadvantages.

They honoured the Zen sect almost exclusively. Ieyasu employed him extensively in drafting laws; andmany of his disciples subsequently served as teachers of the Chineseclassics. In Takauji's time, his second son, Motouji, was appointedto this office, and it was thenceforth inherited for somegenerations, the Uesugi family furnishing a shitsuji. We find also the following appreciationof Japanese ships: The largest of the Japanese vessels can carry