.  .  .  They  were  the  students  who  went  out  into
the  world  to  learn  what  Western  science  had  to
teach  them.  ...  To  them  Japan  owes  its  ancient
as  well  as  its  modern  system  of  education."

At  this  time,  that  is  1800,  their  purely  civil
virtues  had  not  attained  full  development,  and  they
afterwards  did  many  other  important  things  as  will
be  seen  hereafter.
In  ancient  times,  and  generally  up  to  about  the
year  1150  of  our  era,  the  Daimyos  took  orders  direct
from  the  Emperor,  or  his  Ministers  in  the  Court
attached  to  his  person.  There  were  governors  over
provinces  containing  several  Daimiates,  who  would
be  civilian  statesmen  taken  from  the  noble  families
around  the  Court.  Still  everything  was  under  the
Emperor  without  any  intermediary.  At  this  epoch,
that  is  the  end  of  the  twelfth  centurv,  there  was  a
potent  and  ambitious  chief  of  a  clan,  a  great  Daimyo
by  name  Yoritomo,  the  leading  figure  in  Japanese
history.  After  desperate  fighting  by  land  and  water,
he  got  the  power  of  the  State  into  his  mailed  hand,
though  he  never  dreamt  of  deposing  the  Emperor.
