It was a clever coup, but it earned littlecredit with the samurai. On these entertainments great sums were squandered andvaluable presents were a feature of the fetes. ' Hence it is not permissible to lead about a large force of soldiers. Landscape gardensalso occupied his attention.
His earnest patronage of the tea ceremonial involved thecultivation of literature, and although he himself did not excel inthat line, he did much to promote the taste for it in others. At this school youths of ability,selected from among the sons of the Bakufu officials and of thedaimyo, were educated, the doctrines of Confucius being thus renderedmore and more popular. Thereafter, for some years, Hirado remainedoutside the pale of foreign trade. This placed him officially at the head ofall the other priests, and thus the opinions he expressed at theinstance of Ieyasu possessed special weight.
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