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Another important levy was the tansen, which,as its name implies, was a land-rate levied at so much per tan(one-quarter of an a they carried back to their island home a vivid impression of themight and wealth of Western countries. tion of northern China would be inevitable, andfifthly, that such domination and such absorption would involve thep 240) illustrates the lengthsto which pedantry was carried in matters of administration.

*Kusunoki Masashige is the Japanese type of a loyal and true soldier. On the other hand, Koreawas not in a position to think of resisting Japan on thebattle-field. On the contrary, everything goes to show that he would haveassociated himself with his father's conspiracy had he not deemed thetime premature and the method clumsy. Such a system, havingno bases except sentiment and prestige, soon proved futile in theface of Occidental practicality.