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The Shimazufamily emerged victorious from all campaigns until Hideyoshi inperson took the field against them, as will be presently related. Personspractising such callings were designated eta (men of manyimpurities). Some of the objectsthen carried to Japan survive to this day in the form of celadonvases known in Japan as Tenryuji-seiji. In these circumstances neitherConfucianists nor physicians could be treated as samurai, and theywere thus excluded from all State honours.

Meanwhile, the western army had pushedsteadily eastward. t of the shogun depended upon hiswill, and though a subject of the Emperor, he administered functionsfar exceeding those of the Imperial Court. ling national questions to an elective assembly, did thepeople at large come to understand what was involved in such aninstitution. This was the stripling who rode into Yoritomo's camp on a Novemberday in the year 1180.