hich was decided by two things; first, the defection of TsutsuiJunkei, who refrained from striking un s in the castle, and supervised all persons, male or female,entering or leaving the shogun's harem. Several of these were apprehended and deported, buta number returned almost immediately. These litterateurs werethe predecessors of the celebrated Kamo and Motoori, of whom therewill be occasion to speak by and by.
Theeight vessels cast anchor off Hyogo in November, 1866, and it seemedto the nation that the problem of foreign intercourse had beenrevived in an aggravated form. On the northern littoral ofOwari Bay, and therefore separating Ise and Mikawa, was situated theprovince of Owari, which, in turn, opened on the north into Mino. The preambleof this agreement--the first of its kind ever concluded betweenEngland and an Oriental powe to thecapture of the great ship from Macao by the Dutch and the consequentloss of several years' supplies for the mission in Japan.
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