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This was a result of religiousprejudice. In these circumstances neitherConfucianists nor physicians could be treated as samurai, and theywere thus excluded from all State honours. 1499)Hatano, brothers killed by NobunagaHatsuse, Japanese battleship lost off Port ArthurHallo-gaki, Prohibitory Nothing could have been more complete than the exclusion ofthe Kyoto Court from the whole realm of practical

| ShigemoriIn its attitude towards these two families the Court showedshort-sighted shrewdness. the event, entertainmentsin the shogun's honour were organized by the heads of the greatmilitary families. commercial disappointment, issued an edict, in 1550,declaring it a capital offence to embrace Christianity. The southernhalf of Saghalien had originally belonged to Japan and had passedinto Russia's possession by an arrangement which the Japanese nationstrongly resented.