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The third, the mostprominent of all, Saigo Takamori, retired to Satsuma and devotedhimself to organizing and equipping a strong body of samurai. The new shogun, Yoshinori, belonged to a very differentcategory of men from his immediate predecessors. It thus resulted that the Throne wasapproachable through the channel of the Bakufu only. The course of subsequent events seems to prove that Ieyasu, in takingthe field on this occasion, aimed

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