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e stroveearnestly to live up, and make his officers live up, to the ideals ofhis father, Yoritomo, and that he never wittingly committed aninjustice. moment for theattack, ardently desired by the army, had at last arrived, and thatthe Japanese were now to be compelled to do Russia's will. A council was immediately heldand these captains were given the option of continuing to serve underIeyasu or retiring to join the western army and thus ensuring thesafety of their own families. This coronation oath, as it was subsequently called, came to occupy animportant place in political appreciation, and to be interpreted as apromise of a national assembly.

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