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THE NEW GOVERNMENTWhen Go-Daigo entered Kyoto on the 17th of July, 1333, it wassuggested by some of his advisers that a ceremony of coronationshould be again held. ICATIONONE of the problems which invited the attention of the new Governmentearly in the Meiji era had been handed down from the days offeudalism. 58DECADENCE OF FUJIWARA AUTOCRACYDuring two centuries the administrative power remained in the handsof the Fujiwara. When the castle of Edo wasbuilt in Tokugawa days--seventeenth century--each daimyo had tocontribute aid (otetsudai), after the Ashikaga custom.

e Emperor himselfreceived them in audience, an act of extreme condescension accordingto Japanese canons of etiquette. cure a share in the oversea commerce which had brought somuch wealth to his fellow barons on the main island. This provision was, in fact, a codification of the veto pronounced byHideyoshi on his death-bed against marriages between the families ofdifferent daimyo. ball, prehistoric; in proto-historic period; in Heian epochForced labourForeign Affairs, Department of; earliest fo