moment for theattack, ardently desired by the army, had at last arrived, and thatthe Japanese were now to be compelled to do Russia's will. The Bakufu owed much of thestability of their influence to the frugality of their lives and totheir unsullied administration of justice. To these light words the Emperorhearkened. They relied wholly upon the sovereign's prerogative, andstood aloof from alliances of any kind, apparently indifferent toeverything but their duty to their country.
They condemnedYoshihide's son, Yoshikata, to be deprived of his ancestral domainfor not having died in company with his father. He remained always behind theramparts, and, in the meanwhile incited Shingen to invade Echigo, sothat Kenshin had to raise the siege of Odawara and hasten to thedefence of his home province. entai, and carriedthence to Japan two hundred years later by Dengyo, who establishedthe Tendai sect on Mount Hiei near Kyoto. Ina word, they invited Russia to subscribe the policy originallyenunciated by the United States and Great Britain, the policy of theopen door and of the integrity of the Chinese and Korean empires.
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