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254) Taira Masakado lost the aid of agreat lieutenant in his revolt because he forgot to bind up his hairproperly before he received a visitor. Nominally, the jurisdictionof the two Rokuhara was confined to military affairs, but in realitytheir influence extended to every sphere within Kyoto and to theKinai and the Saikai-do without. Hideyoshi himself would have assumed thedirect command, and had actually set out for that purpose from Osaka,when couriers met h Should these means provedefective, instructions must be sought from the judicial department.

Lying a little south ofJapan, these islands had for some centuries been regarded as anappanage of the Satsuma f ), influence on ceramics, andarchitecture, tea-parlours (ill. Tsugaru Strait ispractically under Japan's complete control; she can close it at anymoment with mines. In giving notice of the despatch of troops, Chinadescribed Korea as her tributary State, thus emphasizing acontention which at once created an impossible situation.