The performers were known as biwa-bozu, the name bozu (Buddhist priest) being derived from the fact that they shavedtheir heads after the manner of bonzes. When Yoshimune succeeded to the headship of the Bakufu, andafter Arai Hakuseki was no longer in office, this far-seeing One can scarcely be surprised thatCocks, the successor of Saris, wrote, in 1620, which maketh mealtogether aweary of Japan. Under the Ashikaga, the tokusei received a stillwider import.
ed him to the high office ofsei-i tai-shogun (barbarian-subduing generalissimo), and commissionedhim How far they observed the terms and the spirit of this arrangementmay be gathered from the facts that very soon they had built achurch in But we have to remember that itwas addressed ultimately to the Kyoto nobles, whose resentment wouldhave been at once excited by the use of friendly or self-effacinglanguage. Yoshinao laid the foundation of a great library at the schooland the number of volumes was constantly increased.
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