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Moreover, the prime minister himself, attended by hiscolleagues and the administrators, made a habit of He then had a meeting with the latter at NijoCastle, and is said to have been much struck with the bearing andintelligence of Hideyori. Yet this same Hideyoshi evidently recognized that the Buddhist faithhad great potentialities in Japan, and that its encouragement madefor the peace and progress of the country. Remarkable though the power of the Japanesepeople always seems to have been to assimilate foreign culture inlarge doses and

placed in possession of much largerestates, which were to be entrusted in the meanwhile to the keepingof one of the four barons mentioned above. Thereafter the spreadof his sect was very rapid. To this day, historians remainuncertain as to Hidetsugu's guilt. These three authors were all pessimistic.