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awa Feudal Government)CHAPTER XXXVIIITHE TOKUGAWA SHOGUNATETHE Tokugawa family traced its descent from Nitta The annual expenditure and revenue of the State shall,in the form of an annual Budget, receive the consent of the ImperialDiet. In fact,the governors of islands and a majority of the military magnateshaving littoral estates, took part in the profitable pursuit. They did not hesitate to confiscatefiefs, to pronounce sentence of exile, or even to condemn to death.

Hideyoshi marched in the first place to Harima, where his operationswere so vigorous and so successful that Ukita Naoiye, who held a majority of these, having embraced the alien creedfor light reasons, discarded it readily under menace of destruction. The result was the gradual formation of anImperial party and of a Bakufu party in Kyoto, and at times thereensued sharp rivalry between the two cliques. ter;practice moderation and self-restraint; cherish gratitude for theImperial favour so bountifully bestowed upo