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scription could go to pay the expense of printing
when the time came to pay for it. This, however,
seemed a long way off, for while the penalty of
death or imprisonment was still published before the
eyes of the Japanese, neither printers nor readers
could be persuaded or hired to touch the incendiary
documents. With all its troubles, outward and in-
ward, the Yedo government failed not in its vigilance
in persecution of those suspected of being
Christians.