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and six years later, when, on the death of Matsudaira Tadamasa of Utsunomiya, one of his vassals adhered to the old custom, the Yedo administration reduced the estates of the fief by twenty thousand koku, executed the two sons of Sugiura Matsubei, who had committed suicide, and banished his grandson. Not until the exaction of these terrible penalties did the custom receive its death-blow.
Note 40.—Mr. J. Conder in his admirable work, "Landscape Gardening in Japan."
Note 41.—Conder's "Landscape Gardening in Japan."
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