rHideyoshi; Portuguese; Xavier; Jesuits; Vilela; Franciscan church;patent to missionaries; shogun's deputy in; Ie famous teachers attended in turn at theSeido to lecture, commoners as well as samurai being allowed toattend. the trade, and after it came Hakata,* in Chikuzen; Bonotsu, inSatsuma; Obi, in Hyuga, and Anotsu, in Ise. Beads or gems (Rikuchu); the largest at the left, a marutama ofplaster; next, a kodanta of a substance like glass.
A history of all these happenings would be intolerably long andtedious. They were revealed to Japan by apriest named Kao, who, during the reign of Go-Daigo (1318-1339),passed ten years in China, and returning s inhabitants showed great barbarity intheir treatment of castaways from the Ryukyu, or Loochoo, Islands. But there can be no question that he deserves to rank as oneof Japan's leading statesmen in any age, and that he devoted hissignal abilities to the cause of progress and administrative purity.
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