Japan and the Japanese

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Sama made a vain attempt to regain the exercise of authority.
The defeated prince was still left in possession of his title, but No-
bunanga was thenceforth regarded as, in fact, himself the emperor.
This was in 1573. In 1576 the church received new and im-
portant accessions in Ximo. The king of Bungo, though from the
beginning favorable to the missionaries, had, from reasons of
policy, and through the influence of his wife, who was very hostile
to the new religion, declined baptism none of the ;
courtiers had sub-
mitted to it, and the converts in that kingdom had consisted as yet
of an inferior class. But the second son of the king having taken
the resolution to be baptized, in spite of the violent opposition of
the queen, his mother,
who had great influence over Jocimon, the
king's eldest son, associated, according to a usual Japanese custom,
in the government, his example was followed by many persons
of rank in the kingdom of Bungo, and even by the neighboring
king of Arima, who died, however, shortly after, leaving his kingdom
to an unbelieving successor.*
* The following passage, from Titsingh's Memoirs of the Djogouns, may
serve to shed some light upon the civil war raging in Japan when first
\isited by the Portuguese, and which continued down to the time of Nobu-
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nanga. Faka-ousi was of the family of Yos-ye, who was descended from
Liewa-tenwo, the 5Gth Dairi. He divided the supreme power between his
two sons, Yosi-nori and Moto-ousi, giving to each the government of thirtythree
provinces. [According to Kampfer, Yosi-nori ascended the throne of the
Kubo-Sama A. D. 1431, but he represents him as the son and successor of
Josimitz. There is no Faka-ousi in Kampfer's list, unless it be the same
whom he calls Taka-udsi, and whom he makes the grandfather of Josimitz.]
The latter, who ruled over the eastern part, was styled Kama-koura-no-
Djogoun, and kept his court at Kama-koura, in the province of Sagami.
Yosi-nori, to whom were allotted the western provinces, resided at Miako,
with the title of Tchoko-no Djogoun.
" Faka-ousi, in dividing the empire between his two sons, was influenced
by the expectation that, in case either of them should be attacked, his brother
would afford him assistance. This partition, on the contrary, only served to
arm them one against the other ; the country was involved in continual war,
and the princes, though brothers, were engaged in frequent hostilities, which
terminated only with the destruction of the branch of Miako."