Japan and the Japanese

CHAPTER XIX.
EVACUATION OF COREA. RETURN OF THE CONVERTED PRINCES. FAVOR-
ABLE DISPOSITION OF DAYSU-SAMA. THIRD VISIT OF FATHER VALIGXANI.
CIVIL WAR BETWEEN DAYSU-SAMA AND HIS CO-REGENTS. HIS TRI-
UMPH. DISGRACE AND EXECUTION OF TSUKAMIDONO. DAYSU-SAMA TAKES
THE TITLE OF OGOSIIO-SAMA, AND STILL FAVORS THE CONVERTS. INFLUX
OF DOMINICAN AND FRANCISCAN FRIARS. FLOURISHING CONDITION OF
THE CHURCH. LOCAL PERSECUTIONS. A. D. 1593 Kill9.
THE first act of the regency was to put an end to the war in
Corea. That country was abandoned,* and the return of so many
converted princes greatly strengthened the lately suffering church.
Father llodriguez had always been on good terms with Daysu-Sama,
with whom he had become acquainted at the court of the late em-
peror. This head of the regency was even thought to be well dis-
posed to the new religion, and the converted princes, in conjunction
with Father Valignani, who, just before the death of Taiko-Sama,
had reached Japan for the third time, in company with a new
bishop, proceeded gradually and unostentatiously to reestablish the
missionaries, to rebuild the churches, and to set up again the college
and seminaries, till soon the Catholic faith seemed to be replaced
on almost as firm a basis as ever. For a time, indeed, things were
thrown into confusion by a civil war which soon broke out between
Daysu-Sama and his co-regents. Some of the Catholic princes lost
their provinces as adherents of the defeated party, and among the
rest, that distinguished pillar of the church, Tsukamidono, the grand
admiral, king of Fingo and conqueror of Corea, who, for his share
in this business, perished by the hand of the executioner, his
* Yet the Japanese are said to maintain to this day a garrison on the coast
(Golowuin, vol. iu., ch. 9), and to receive tribute from Corea; but this
eeems doubtful.