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The writing of history in the Imperial Court had beenabandoned for many years, and the scholars employed by Ieyasu hadrecourse to private diaries for materials. THE SHINGON SECTIt was not to Dengyo, however, that Japan owed her most mysteriousform of Buddhism, but to his contemporary, Kukai, remembered byposterity as Kobo Daishi. This organization, though carried within sight of completionin the days of the third shogun, required to be supplemented by theeighth, and was not actually perfected until the time of theeleventh. Kamakura was to be his capital and he assumed thetitle of shogun.

THE COURT IN KYOTOAll these things were watched with keen interest in Kyoto. The WashingtonGovernment had actually addressed to European nations a memorandumjustifying an expedition to Japan on the ground that it The shoguns were merepuppets. Women were examined with signal strictness, they beingregarded as part of the system which required that the wives of thedaimyo should live in Yedo as hostages.