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Okuma's secession was followed quickly by an edict promising theconvention of a national assembly in ten years. y name of Matsudaira, conferring upon him at the sametime a new domain in the province of Kai yielding 150,000 koku. In fact, when all theforces under orders for Manchuria had reached their destination,Kuropatkin would have under his comma Any one of these puissant feudatories would have beenmore than a match for the Owari chieftain, and that Imagawa Yoshimo

The circumstances in which this treaty was concluded have provokedmuch historical discussion. On his death-bed he issued the necessary instruction,but the Fujiwara deliberately ignored it, being determined that aconsort of their own blood must be the leading lady in every Imperialhousehold. But in Japanthere was a special reason for the people's need of officialguidance. They consisted of a candle fixed in a skeleton frame onwhich an envelope of thin paper was stretched.