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A similar step had been taken bythe Ashikaga shogun, Yoshiteru, in 1553, but the processes adopted onthat occasion were not by any means so accurate or scientific asthose prescribed by the Taiko. est hands could the turbulent families of the southern islandbe reduced to order--the Shimazu, the Otomo, the Shoni, and theKikuchi. It is the custom for people to carry many presents to theshogun on the first day of the eighth month, but so freely are thosethings given away that nothing remains by the evening, I am told. Such an appeal to the emotional side of human nature could not failto undermine the stoicism of the samurai and the morality of societyin general.

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