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record quotedKogyoku, (35th) Empress (642-5); abdicates, becomes Empress Dowager;again Empress see Saimei; Asuka But Mincho's religious pictures did not help to introduce the Sungacademy to Japan. Another incident,not without influence, was connected with the survey of the Japanesecoast by a Spanish mariner and a Franciscan friar. THE COURTThe interval between the close of the fifteenth century and the endof the sixteenth is set apart by Japanese annalis

Thereafter came billowy times whencommunications were interrupted, but an auspicious opportunity hasnow arrived when it has pleased us again to address you. Youths receiving education enjoy certain exemption fromconscription, but as this is in strict accordance with the Westernsystem, it need not be dwelt upon here. icted the wearing ofwhite robes except on occasions of ceremony; ordained that weddingpresents should henceforth be reduce AccompanyingYoshitomo's retreat, he had been severely wounded, and he asked hisfather to kill him rather than leave him at Awobake to fall into thehands of the Taira.