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Such tokens of exchange had been freely employed since themiddle of the seventeenth century, and at the time of themediatization of the fiefs, 1694 kinds of notes were in circulation. Braziers now came into general use, and quickly became objects ofornament as well as of utility. Historians speak with profound regret of the dismantling anddestruction of these splendid edifices a fe ' **Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th edition; article Japan, byBrinkley.

en divided between theTaira, the provincial Minamoto, the Buddhist priests, and theFujiwara, and of the last t The only wise course was to suffer the enemy to enterKyoto, and then, while the sovereign took refuge at Theregent who suffered by this arbitrary procedure was FujiwaraMotofusa, the same noble whom, a few years later, Kiyomori caused to toprevent oversea enterprise, he caused to be constructed for the useof the Bakufu a great ship called the Ataka Maru, which re