THE AWAKENING OF JAPAN
rise of the Tokugawa monarchy in the seventeenth century, clung with singular tenacity to their past ideals. Their art was that of the Kano school, a reflection of the fifteenth century. Their music and drama were the No, the sixteenth-century opera of Japan. Their costumes, architecture, and language retained the style of the time immediately preceding the Tokugawa period. Their religion followed those Zen doctrines which had been the vital inspiration of the feudal age. In fact, the whole code of the samurai was an heirloom left to them by the Kamakura and Ashikaga knights, in whose days the whole nation was a camp.
Iyeyasu, accepting Japan as it was, and utilizing its idiosyncrasies, kept the military class quiet through its own (love of hereditary conventions and
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