...reconsolidate the fasf-wanTng power of the Tokugawa government. Putting in abeyance all minor matters of dispute, the entire nation looked to the Shogun,...as a Western invasion. Thus the Tokugawa government was given a new lease of life and its final overthrow postponed for fifteen years, during which time...

...Tokugawa government. Putting in abeyance all minor matters of dispute, the entire nation looked to 8 113 the Shogun, as the representative of all existing...as a Western invasion. Thus the Tokugawa government was given a new lease of life and its final overthrow postponed for fifteen years, during which time...

...India and China. Okakura declares in his book "The Awakening of Japan" that "the immediate effecF" of the arrival of the American Embassy was to reconsolidate...postponed fifteen years, during which ultra reformists were^_ kept from running riot and the nation had a chance to prepare itself for the momentous change...

...reconsolidate the fastwaning power of the Tokugawa government. Putting in abeyance all minor matters of dispute, the entire nation looked to the Shogun,...as a Western invasion. Thus the Tokugawa government was given a new lease of life and its final overthrow postponed for fifteen years, during which time...