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PROVISIONS OF THE CONSTITUTIONThe framers of the Constitution, chief among whom was Prince Ito,naturally took care not to make its provisions too liberal. Having concentrated a large body of troops in Kyoto, he declared waragainst Asakura Yoshikage, who had refused to recognize the newshogun. n showed no disposition todischarge their duty in that respect, Japan took the law into her ownhands. In 1303, a son was born to Sadatoki, and the latter, dying in1311, bequeathed the office of regent to this boy when he shouldreach year

Always hemade it his unflagging aim to restore the martial spirit which hadbegun to fade from the samurai's bosom, and in the forefront ofimportant reforms he placed frugality. ope and five to one in Japan, it is obvious that, by the mereprocess of exchange, a foreign merchant could reap a rich harvest. Their strategy and desperate valour proved invincible, however, andthe Kagoshima samurai won, on October 30, 1598, a vic Japan gradually reduced her demands to a minimum.