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To infringe the law in the name of reason is as bad as to outragereason in the name of law. hold, though in the case of the Yedo fortificationevery stone had to be carried hundreds of miles over the sea. The plebeian classes, that is tosay, the farmers, the artisans, and the tradesmen, were generallypunished by fines, by confinement, or by handcuffing (tegusari). It involved the confinement of the foreign residentsto settlements grouped around the sites of their consular courts; forit would plainly ha

The incident was typical of the conditions existing in manyof the barons' households, and the history of Japan furnishesnumerous parallel cases. proteges,and, while profoundly disliking the Fujiwara autocrat, Ichijo wasconstrained to suffer him. tory so signalthat the ears and noses of thirty-seven thousand Chinese heads weresent to Japan and buried under a tumulu There were thus three ex-Emperors at the same time.