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But this restriction may beindirectly traced to the blunder of not accepting a settlement inYedo and a port at Uraga. If there were great captains in each ofthese famous families, there were also great courtiers. In fact, the whole arrangement as to the Sankyo was anillustration of his faithful imitation of the institutions of Ieyasu. He seemsfrom the first to have entertained doubts of Yoshitsune's loyalty toYoritomo, and his own bitter experiences may well have helped toconvert those doubts into certainties.

s to say, five officials called administrators, inwhose intelligence and competence Hideyoshi placed signal reliance. He forgave the guilty man inconsideration of his advanced age, and the incident is said to haveclosed with the suicide of the old officer. The new shogun, Yoshinori, belonged to a very differentcategory of men from his immediate predecessors. It was at this time (1866) that the fourteenthshogun, Iemochi, passed away and was succeeded by Yoshinobu, betterknown, as Keiki.