the land-stewards not onlycollected taxes, and, after deducting their own salaries, handed theremainder to those entitled t inted administrators (bugyo), direct nominees of theTokugawa; while Kyoto was put under the sway of a deputy of theshogun (shoshidai). The city was then infested with bandits, a notunnatural product of the warlike era. e employed a large force of armed men, andthat by dispensing with prohibitions he made his doctrine popular.
What is certain,however, is that at the age of fifteen he managed to effect hisescape to the north of Japan. Theman was a Franciscan, by name Jerome de Jesus. His Majesty appearsto have thought that to bestow the princess' hand on a subject and toelevate her elder brother to the throne would surel There can be no doubt, however, that the edifice represented everypossible feature of magnificence and refinement characteristic of theera.
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