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Thereafter it became the unwritten law of the empirethat the holder of this high post must be either the head of theprincipal Minamoto family or an Imperial prince. Votes shall be taken in both Houses by absolutemajority. The Chinese for ages past have had asuccession of different dynasties to rule over them, but Japan hasbeen faithful to one uninterrupted line of sovereigns. against Tokugawa;predominant; fiefs surrendered; clan representation; rebellion of1877Sawaga, monasterySawing to deathScholars, Chinese and

incialgovernors to Momo-yama, and handed to them a body of rules entitledthe Laws of the Military Houses. Another question raised on thisoccasion in Kyoto was the succession to the shogunate. Circumstances helped him as they do generally help great men. TheBakufu collected dues on foreign commerce, also, and miscellaneousimposts of an irregular character made no small addition to itsincome.