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, this new law can serve only tointroduce into Japan a diversity of cults prejudicial to the welfareof the State. I am the only remaining scion of ahumble stock, but my mother once had a dream in which she saw the sunenter her bosom, after which she gave birth to me. Twomonths later re-enforcements reached the Western Army, andthereafter, for nearly two years, victory rested with the Yamana. Thus, he forbade the custom of exchanging presents between officialcolleagues; ordered that everyone possessing an income

f an official, Kumagaya, who wasdismissed from his post and deprived of his property for venturing tomemorialize the shogun in a critical manner. General Nogi's force had marched up from Port Arthur, butGeneral Kawamura's was a new army formed of special reservists andnow put in the field for the first time. The nominal leader of thewestern army, which mustered 128,000 strong, was Mori Terumoto, andunder him were in making New Japan; attitude of Crown to; abolition of;Satsuma rebellionSamurai-dokoro, Central Staff Office,