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licting serious loss on theinvading army, driving it pele-mele across the border and killing itschief, Yoshimoto. They steadily followed the principles ofConfucianism as interpreted by Chutsz, a Chinese philosopher who diedin the year 1200, bu The contrast between the Japan of the middle of the sixteenth andthat of the middle of the seventeenth century has often been made bythe historian of foreign influence. Consul-General Hall, in the Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan; epitomized byMurdoch.

hemselves with the utmost circumspection, sothat official attention should not be attracted by any salientevidences of Christian propagandism. development of originalJapanese thought and of intellectual investigation might havedistinguished the Yamato race. Nevertheless, a few military magnates, retainingsome appreciation of the value of erudition, established schools andlibraries. But thereafter he made noattempt to restore the Ouchi family.