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Hideyori himself did not want for ability, butacting by the advice of his mother, Yodo, and of his friend,Harunaga, he adopted a false policy of opposition to Ieyasu. A correlated fault was excessive reverence for rank and rigidexclusiveness of class. Eventhe Dutch are not free from suspicion of acting the part of spies. Kamakura, on the seacoast a few miles south of the present Yokohama,was chosen for headquarters, and one of the first steps taken

Numerous tea pavilionswere erected, and Hideyoshi, having sent home all his male guests andattendants, remained himself among a multitud Eleven monthshave exhausted our strength. This,of course, did not mean that there was to be any abandonment ofspecial privileges already acquired or any surrender of existingconcessions. Butthe statesmen in power insisted that the nation was not yet ready toenjoy constitutional privileges.