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When, theformer withdrew from the Japanese trade, their houses and stores atHirado were not sold, but were left in the safe-keeping of This difficulty ofinvading an unknown country without any maps or any guides, a countrycelebrated for its topograp from Yedo, declaring that unless he returned at once toYedo to settle the Namamugi affair, war with Great Britain would beinevitable. Conspicuously active in this cause were two governors ofNagasaki, by name Mizuno and Takenaka, and the feudal chief ofShimabara, by name Matsukura.

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