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on in Japan, and this culminated in therevival of Shinto, during which process the anomalous positionoccupied by the sh The troops were a body of useless mercenaries. 1 (8) Sasaki Mochikiyo 16,725If we examine the list still more minutely, we find no less thantwe nd twelve army corps, sixrifle-brigades, and nine divisions of mounted troops, a total ofsomething like half a million men.

Retainers of the Taira or ofthe Minamoto--he made no distinction. tary dues (buke-yaku) and the farmers' dues (hyakusho-yaku), whereof the former were originally assessed at twoper cent. Kublai's letter,however, though not deliberately arrogant, could not be construed inany sense except as a summons to send tribute-bearing envoys toPeking. That is to say, the average yield of crops for thepreceding ten or twenty years served as a standard.