A few days later a Japanese junk approached Biddle's flagship and requested his presence on board their ship to receive the Tokugawa shogunate's official response.

Although the shogunate's official philosophy was lay Neo-Confucianism, Buddhism had become an integral part of the state as a consequence of the Tokugawas ' anti-Christian policy.

Samurai saw him as the man who could bring back the shogunate's heyday, and therefore his strength was superior to that of any other samurai, Nitta Yoshisada included.

The Ashikaga shogunate's foreign relations policy choices were played out in evolving contacts with the Joseon Dynasty on the Korean peninsula and with Imperial China.

* 1665-Japanese feudal landholders ( called Daimyo ) were ordered to follow the shogunate's example and to appoint inquisitors to do a yearly scutiny of Christians

Thousands were killed in the shogunate's suppression of the revolt and countless more were executed afterwards.

Biddle eventually received the shogunate's response and was told that Japan forbade all commerce and communication with foreign nations besides that of the Dutch ; also, he was informed that all foreign affairs were conducted through Nagasaki and that his ships should leave Uraga immediately.

The shogunate's interventions were only partly successful.

As the shogunate's powerful figures competed for influence in Kyoto, the leading families in the provinces were amassing resources and growing more independent of centralized controls.

Whilst the Dutch were unable in four attempts to capture Macau from where Portugal monopolised the lucrative China-Japan trade, the Japanese shogunate's increasing suspicion of the intentions of the Catholic Portuguese led to their expulsion in 1639.

The shogunate's interventions were met only limited successful.

In the process of the conversation, Abe began to ask Zusho a line of questioning that made it apparently clear to Zusho that Abe, as well as the Tokugawa shogun, knew the truth of the illegal Satsuma-Ryūkyū-Western trade relations, which were being carried out against the shogunate's policy of seclusion.

At the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, ( around the middle of the 19th century ) there were many masters of Hōzōin-ryū sōjutsu employed at the shogunate's martial arts training center.

Even after the consolidation of the shogunate's power in the east, the Emperor continued to rule the country, particularly its west.

The gorintō ( stone pagoda ) traditionally believed to be his grave ( see article Tomb of Minamoto no Yoritomo ) is still maintained today, adjacent to Shirahata Shrine, a short distance from the spot believed to be the site of the so-called Ōkura Bakufu, his shogunate's administrative / governmental offices.

During the Edo period, with the shogunate's rigid class system and laws, the number of rōnin greatly increased.

Ii Naosuke became the Tokugawa shogunate's Tairō and concluded commercial treaties with the Western powers and thus ended Japan's isolation from the world in the 19th century.

The Hamada clan was on the shogunate's side in the Meiji Restoration, and the castle was burned down.

At roughly the same time, Nitta Yoshisada, another eastern chieftain, attacked the shogunate's capital.

Extending its authority to controlling travel along highways, issuing passports and exercising rights previously belonging to the shogunate's deputies ( the Rokuhara Tandai ), Takauji showed he believed that samurai political power must continue.

The province was used as a launching point for much of the shogunate's attack against the capital, and Echizen became the stage for many decisive battles of the war.

It produced many prominent officials in the Ashikaga shogunate's administration.

A conflict between Hosokawa Katsumoto, the fifth Kanrei, and his father-in-law Yamana Sōzen, over the shogunate's succession, sparked the Ōnin War, which led to the fall of the shogunate and a period of 150 years of chaos and war, known as Sengoku.

Enomoto started learning Dutch in the 1850s, and after Japan's forced " opening " by Commodore Matthew Perry in 1854, he studied at the Tokugawa shogunate's Naval Training Center in Nagasaki and at the Tsukiji Warship Training Center in Edo.

He traveled to Edo in 1856 in the retinue of Date Munenari, and was appointed a teacher at the shogunate's Bansho Shirabesho, institute for western studies.

It was one of only a handful of instances of serious unrest during the relatively peaceful period of the Tokugawa shogunate's rule.

The bulk of the shogunate's army was drawn from Shimabara's neighboring domains.

In total, the shogunate's army comprised over 125, 800 men.

Another part of the shogunate's actions after the rebellion was to excuse the clans which had aided its efforts militarily, from the building contributions which it routinely required from various domains.

He was also a puppet ruler controlled by Hōjō Takatoki, who was the shogunate's shikken or chief minister.

After this, he withdrew to Chōshū and took part in the military actions of Takasugi Shinsaku's Kiheitai against the shogunate's Choshu Expeditions.

More boats began using the Swan Creek sidecut than its official ending, quickly putting the Manhattan warehouses out of business and triggering a rush to move business to Toledo. A 1955 Interstate Highway System | Interstate planning map of Toledo Most of Manhattan's residents moved out by 1844.

With Robin Zander now on vocals, the band recorded their first official demo in 1975 and played in warehouses, bowling alleys, and various other venues around the midwestern United States.

The action of the Commission in allowing or denying any claim under this title shall be final and conclusive on all questions of law and fact and not subject to review by the Secretary of State or any other official, department, agency, or establishment of the United States or by any court by mandamus or otherwise.

Such certification shall be final and conclusive and shall not be subject to review by any other official or department, agency, or establishment of the United States.

We were to discover, in fact, that quite a number of people share with us the impression that, in contrast to other Soviet regions, Moscow's atmosphere is depressingly subdued and official.

The Board of County Commissioners, the Sanitary Commission, the Planning and Zoning Board and other county official bodies use recording machines for all public business in order to prevent law suits and other misunderstandings about what actually happened at their meetings.

An the other hand, the armed forces of the MPLA ( now the official armed forces of the Angolan state ) and of UNITA fought each other until the leader of UNITA, Jonas Savimbi, was killed in action, in 2002.

Though the name Area 51 is used in official Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) documentation, other names used for the facility include Dreamland, Paradise Ranch, Home Base, Watertown Strip, Groom Lake, and most recently Homey Airport.

There are also immigrants from other countries such as Romania, Russia, Ukraine and Morocco, many of whom are under illegal alien status and therefore are not accounted for in official population figures.

Subsequent professional black baseball clubs played each other independently, without an official league to organize the sport.

' Although members are asked to confess serious sins to him, unlike the Roman Catholic Church, he is not the instrument of divine forgiveness, merely a guide through the repentance process ( and a judge in case transgressions warrant excommunication or other official discipline ).

Latter-day Saint bishops do not wear any special clothing or insignia the way clergy in many other churches do, but are expected to dress and groom themselves neatly and conservatively per their local culture, especially when performing official duties.

The first was the late 7th century Deuteronomistic reform of official Judean religion under king Josiah, who banned many elements of the old polytheistic cult from the Temple, and the sudden collapse of Assyria and the rise of Babylon to take its place ; the second was exile of the royal court, the priests and other members of the ruling elite following the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem c. 586 BCE.

* The first " temple vision ", in which Ezekiel sees God leave the Temple because of the abominations being practiced there ( meaning the worship of Gods other than Yahweh, the official God of Judah ( Ezekiel 8: 1-16 );

The referee is the official timekeeper for the match, and may make an allowance for time lost through substitutions, injured players requiring attention, or other stoppages.

Breton is not an official language of France, despite pleas from autonomists and others for official recognition and for the language to be guaranteed a place in schools, the media, and other aspects of public life.

His official report back to the Cabinet categorically stated that the Zionists did not want " to set up a Jewish Republic or any other form of state in Palestine or in any part of Palestine ".

It was this edition which was to be the official Book of Common Prayer, during the growth of the British Empire, and, as a result, has been a great influence on the prayer books of Anglican churches worldwide, liturgies of other denominations in English, and of the English language as a whole.

When he openly left Octavian's sister, Octavia Minor, and moved to Alexandria to become Cleopatra's official partner, he led many Roman politicians to believe that he was trying to become the unchecked ruler of Egypt and of other eastern kingdoms, while still maintaining his command over the many Roman legions in the East.

It grew in size and influence over a few decades, and by the end of the 4th century had become the official state religion of the Roman Empire, replacing other forms of religion practiced under Roman rule.

There are numerous other countries, such as Cyprus, which although do not have an established church, still give official recognition to a specific Christian denomination.

Newcomers to a market may find it difficult to find loans, acquire shelf space, or receive official sanction to sell their product or services ; in technological fields, they may be accused of infringing on patents that the established competitors never assert against each other.

** contemporaneous ancient copies minted as official coins by other cities or rulers

For purposes of international communication and trade, the official names of the chemical elements both ancient and more recently recognized are decided by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ( IUPAC ), which has decided on a sort of international English language, drawing on traditional English names even when an element's chemical symbol is based on a Latin or other traditional word, for example adopting " gold " rather than " aurum " as the name for the 79th element ( Au ).