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THE LIFE OF A EONIN. 189
In the keep of the castle, of old so high-walled and
famous, he once lay as a prisoner, but later came out
to be Japan's greatest soldier and statesman. He
built Yedo, founded the Tokugawa family, which
ruled all
Japan from 1604 until 1868, who called
themselves tycoons, or great princes, lye'yasu being
himself the first of the line. After his wars were
over he lived in Fu-chiu from 1610 to 1616, gathering
up books and manuscripts so that learning should
revive and the scholar might succeed the soldier.
Here the Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, and English
the latter was Will
envoys visited him. Among
Adams, the English pilot, after whom a street in the
Door was named and whose
great city of the Bay
grave is on the shores of the Bay of Yedo.
A few miles from Fu-chiu on the mountain of
Kurio, stood the ancestral temple of the proud family
that ruled all Japan and even overawed the Mikado.
On the pagoda and the roofs and cornices of the temple
glittered the golden trefoil of asarum leaves set
in a circle, which was the family crest or coat-of-arms.
Everywhere there were impressive signs of the power
of the mighty Tycoon of Yedo ;
yet
it must not be
the Yedo
forgotten that at this time, in the eyes of an increasing
number of students of history,
rulers were usurpers. The theory of " two emperors,
one spiritual and the other temporal," which
foreigners usually accepted was in reality a false
one. There were thousands of patriots like Honda
Jiro who were burning to see the Tokugawa government
overthrown and the Mikado restored to his