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Besides the six-stringed harp orwagon, much more complex harps or lutes of thirteen or twenty-fivestrings were used, and in general there was a great increase in thenumber and variety of instruments. As for the castle, its enormous strength rendered itwell-nigh impregnable, and after weeks of effort the Tokugawa forceshad nothing to show for their repeated attacks except a long list ofcasualties. i house by adoption,until ultimately Yoshinaga committed suicide and, the Ouchi familybecoming extinct, Motonari succeeded to all its domains. k Current see Kuro-shioBoards of Religion and Privy Council under Daiho codeBogatyr, Russian protected cruiser

shogun Yoshiteru,the conflagration of the building, and the suicide of the shogun amidthe blazing ruins. Other fugitives from China,notably an able scholar named Chu Chi-yu, settled in Japan at thistime, and contributed not a little to the promotion of art andliterature. He invited the Diet tovote for a substantial increment of land and sea forces, and aftermuch opposition in the House of Representati In thinraiment on a winter's night, brave the cold and be reading the wholenight through; with scanty fare on a summer's day, repel hunger andbe learning the whole day long.