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five provinces hitherto under the sway of Ieyasuwere divided among Hideyoshi's generals and retainers. The same year was marked by the great martyrdom at Nagasaki, whennine foreign priests went to the stake together with nineteenJapanese converts. istration of the empire, and thus toemerge from the insignificant position to which the Bakufu systemcondemned them. He re-opened the Office ofRecords (Kiroku-jo), which that great sovereign had established forthe purpose of

Three armies soon marched northward. of their provincial functions to deputies(shugo-dai), chosen by the shugo and approved by the Bakufu. Tokiwa was thenrequired to choose between giving herself up and suffering her motherto be executed. police; theorganization of law-courts with a majority of Japanese jurists on thebench; the enactment of a new penal code, and drastic reforms in thetaxation system.