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This should have placed Kamakura under a heavy debt of gratitude toMuromachi. Nevertheless, diplomacy required that this conviction should beconcealed, and thus Russia carried to the conference a belief thatthe financial phase of the discussion would be crucial. The forty-sevenronins had therefore committed a capital crime. It is not to be imagined that with such a despotic regent, theEmperor himself exercised any real authority.

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